Plan of the lesson. Pre- activity:
1) At the beginning of the lesson each student should think of the active vocabulary of the subject. For this purpose they will have brainstorming. The teacher writes the word “meals” on the blackboard. Each letter should be written separately.
The students are asked to give an example for every letter of the word. She also warns that examples should be only one part of speech- noun. So the students have restricted opportunities even about examples.
M – meat, mutton;
E - egg, eater;
A – apple, apricot;
L – lettuce, lagman;
S – salad, salt.
While – activity: Cluster. 1) Then the teacher asks the students to do one more task: to enumerate all the processes connected with cooking any dish. Examples should be again one part of speech. Now they are asked to give examples using gerund.
Making a mess Stirring Cooking Frying MEALS Serving Boiling Stewing Mixing Tasting 2) Students are to give a word and comment on each process. Then the teacher asks different questions about the ingredients of the particular dish. Next task is to guess what dish it is.
1) Meat soup with vegetables.
2) Broth with meat balls coated with dough.
3) Rice soup.
4) Rice boiled with fried meat and carrot.
5) Meat or liver pieces grilled over charcoals.
6) Young noodles with fried meat and vegetables.
7) Steamed big meat-balls coated with dough.
8) Small pastry with meat and pumpkin.
9) Stewed fruit.
10) Fruit jelly made of potato starch.
Post – activity: Debate. The teacher asks the students to dwell on the peculiarities of “pilav” made not every day, but “osh” as traditionally the Uzbek people call “tuy oshi”, which is made at the wedding parties. For this purpose the group is divided into 2 teams: foreign guests from England and the hosts who are having wedding osh.
Foreign guests ask the hosts to give some comments on some unusual points of the process of wedding osh. So the hosts give them the following comment on the peculiarities of wedding osh.
It is made not in the day time as usual but at late night, they explain it is because of climate because in the day time it is very hot and it takes much time and great care.
It is made in clay “ochoq” not on the gas stove.
A host cut a sheep to make wedding osh tasty and pour some fat in addition to vegetable oil which makes osh very tasty.
It is made and served by only men.
It is served early in the morning. Only men guests are invited (but it does not mean that women are prohibited to taste wedding osh. Only in day time after men guests have gone. It is because men should go to their everyday duties, women did not work before and they could taste it in the daytime with their children).
It is accompanied with music. Special singers are invited to the wedding osh and they sing special classical national songs, so that the guests could not only enjoy the dish but enjoy song, music.
Each guest is served in separate plate “ lagan” and is followed with some pies or some pastries.
One more peculiarity of wedding osh is we throw not 5-10 kg of rice but 50 even 70 kg of rice and not only 20 -30 guests are invited but 100 and more guests are invited.
It is made of mutton which is very fat and they put some so called “ kazi” ( national dish like sausage stuffed with horse meat ) which makes “ osh” very calorie and nourishing, it may be very rich for stomach of women and children.
Wedding osh is a traditional ceremony which is held when a child is born, when marry their daughters and sons, anniversaries, when parents reach silver and golden age anniversary.
Teacher: “So in conclusion we may say that Uzbek family holds wedding osh and they spend much money, much time, a lot of ingredients and invite a lot of guests, but at the same time it is compulsory and Uzbek people keep their tradition and follow all its rules.
Uzbek people decide to restrict, to limit the quantity of ingredients and cut the number of guests.Uzbek people do not want to waste good food, because after wedding parties a lot of food is remained and wasted. Nowadays people strictly follow the normal rules of holding wedding parties and wedding osh. They are held in very economical way not to waste people’ s money and time.
So, our debate was held in very friendly atmosphere. Our guests and hosts exchanged with their opinions and thoughts. They knew much about wedding osh and its peculiarities.”
Homework: To write about differences between afternoon tea and high tea.
The aim of the activities 1,2 is to improve students’ speaking and thinking skills.
The aim of the debateis to develop students’ comprehension and speaking skills; to involve them into discussion.
