Your Children Will Love Our Bilingual Cookbook …
Are you a bilingual family using Spanish and English daily? Are you a parent wanting to teach a little bit of Spanish or English to your children? Or maybe you are a teacher wanting to bring a little of diversity to your foreign language classes? Do you like cooking simple and scrummy recipes? Do you want to have fun with food while learning a language?
If you answered “Yes” or “Sí” to any of these questions, you will love our wonderful bilingual cookbook with recipes, puzzles and activities.
This amazing 84-page bilingual cookbook will guide you through simple recipes while learning new vocabulary and having fun with your children at the kitchen table. Our fun language assistants, Arthur the Apple and Nerea Naranja will make language learning as easy as following a recipe. This book is designed for children learning Spanish or English (as a foreign language) and is perfect to compliment any language learning already happening either at school or at home. It is suitable for school-aged children but can also be adapted for younger children (if parents or teacher are on hand to help).
Content:
In our Activity Bilingual Cookbook, you will find:
– Simple and scrummy recipes:
- Easy Pancakes,
- Egg Muffins,
- Fruitburgers,
- Tuna Fishcakes,
- Pizza Omelette,
- Home-made Lemonade,
- Lemon Brownies,
- Giant Chocolate Chip Cookies,
- Chocolate Brownies
- Catalan Cream
All recipes include ingredients lists and instructions in both languages (Spanish and English).
– Vocabulary sheets: colours, numbers, alphabets and more.
– Games: matching words, fill-the-blanks, word search, spot-the-difference …
– Worksheets to create your own recipes in Spanish (or English) and shopping lists to photocopy and prepare for each of the recipes before you go shopping.
Who is our Bilingual Cookbook for?
Whether you are teaching or learning Spanish or English, there is something for everyone who loves to teach or learn, while having fun.
Our language learning activity cookbook is perfect for bilingual families. If English or Spanish is your minority language, doing some of these activities at your own pace, give your children an extra boost in the target language. It also enriches their vocabulary.
Our language learning activity cookbook is also perfect for language teachers. Whether you are teaching Spanish or English as a foreign language or running a language after-school group, you can use the recipes and little games as support for some of your activities.
Here are just a few of our wonderful language-learning mini chefs …
Where can you find our Bilingual Cookbook?
You can download a printable version of the cookbook to print at home or at your local copy/print shop. You can also buy a book version (shipping currently only in Europe).
To complement the activity book, you can also order our children’s or adults’ aprons (shipping only in Europe).
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A language classroom is not just about learning the grammar and the vocabulary. It is also about learning the culture or cultures to better understand the language. We all know how food is a fabulous way to get to understand a culture and its people. So what better or more fun way to learn a language than through food?
Today, we share 5 simple and easy tips to incorporate a country or a language’s food culture into your language classroom, your homeschooling routine or your language learning experience.
The key here is the authenticity of the content. Every decent educator will know that to learn a language authentic materials work best and are the most useful. Nobody wants to learn about made-up artificial conversations between a French baker and a customer talking about bagels!
Here are our 5 authentic yet simple tips:
Design Your Own Food Packaging
In a globalised world, it is not difficult to find food packaging containing foreign languages. Just head to your local (ethnic) supermarket and pick something that fits your target language. You get to use the packaging to learn a few words (and taste whatever is inside if it is relevant). Alternatively, next time you are visiting your target language country, bring back food packaging.
Create A Menu
Once again, you don’t need to travel far to find menus written in a foreign language. Either visit your favourite restaurant or check out menus online from restaurants in your target country to get a taste of your favourite dishes.
As an activity, get your students to search for menus, study them and create a brand new one for their very own restaurant.
Role-play: At The Restaurant
You have created your very own menu, all you need to do now is to set up a little role-play with that menu: waiter and customers. Asking questions about the menu, ordering from it, paying the bill are all wonderful authentic practice situations for any language student. Food vocabulary is obviously important here too but you get to add much more to it.
Cook a Typical Dish
Of course, one of the most obvious things you can do to incorporate food into your language lessons is to cook a typical dish from your target country. It doesn’t need to be anything fancy or complicated and if you have no cooking equipment, a salad could work too.
Write Your Own Recipe
If your students are up to it, you could even ask them to write or translate their very own recipe. Imagine you are to cook something typical from your own country for people who only speak your target language. You will need to translate the recipe for them. You could supply them with a recipe or they could make one up. Watch out for translation of weights and measure units! They need to be culturally appropriate too. This is a wonderful activity to do to practice cooking-related verbs too.
Have you got any other tips to add to this list? We would love to hear about the ways you do incorporate food into your language lessons or classroom.
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To celebrate the launch of our first Cooking With Languages products, our bilingual English/Spanish Activity Cookbook and Apron, we are offering our very first giveaway.
This competition is in exclusive conjunction with the latest publication of the wonderful Kids on the Costa (KOTC) magazine and can be followed on social media using the hashtag #KOTCColourComp
KOTC is our favourite magazine for kids and families on the Costa del Sol and southern Spain!
About Kids On the Costa Magazine:
How old is KOTC?The first publication of Kids On the Costa Magazine was launched in March 2002. It is 15 years old!
What date will the latest edition be published?
The next printed edition will be published on 22nd of May 2017 but you can read it sooner online (
Read Latest Version Here)
Until what date will the publication with the competition in be distributed?
The last distribution date of this publication will be February 2018.
How many copies are printed?
25,000 copies of the magazine are printed and, in addition, digital copies are distributed/promoted online
What is the distribution area?
The printed magazines are distributed at many points, from Malaga City to Gibraltar on the Coast and neighbouring inland areas such as Coin and Alhaurin el Grande. The online digital version is read worldwide.
How Can You Enter Our Competition?
- Grab a copy of the KOTC magazine (available from May 22nd, 2017 to February 2018)
- Colour in our picture of Arthur Apple and Nerea Naranja having fun and getting messy in the kitchen.
- Ask your parents to take a photograph of you holding the coloured picture and upload it to our Cooking With Languages Facebook page. (LINK HERE) NOTE: Make sure you “Like” the Facebook Page too as the winners will be announced there!
- OR upload your photo to Twitter tagging @cooklanguage and using the hashtag #KOTCColourComp
- Add the following dates to your diary: SATURDAY 22nd JULY 2017 and SATURDAY 16TH DECEMBER 2017 and be sure to visit the Cooking With Languages Facebook page on those dates as that is when the two winners will be announced.
What If You Don’t Live in southern Spain? What If You Aren’t Planning a Holiday Here in 2017? Don’t worry, You Can Still Enter …
- Download and print off the picture of Arthur Apple and Nerea Naranja having fun and getting messy in the kitchen. ( Use this link to download and print: Arthur & Nerea in the kitchen )
- Colour it in.
- Ask your parents to take a photograph of you holding the coloured picture and upload it to the Kids on the Costa Facebook page. (LINK HERE) NOTE: Make sure you “Like” the Cooking With Languages Facebook Page too as the winners will be announced there!
- OR upload your photo to Twitter tagging @cooklanguage and using the hashtag #KOTCColourComp
- Add the following dates to your diary SATURDAY 15TH JULY 2017 and SATURDAY 16TH DECEMBER 2017 and be sure to visit the Cooking With Languages Facebook page on those dates as that is when the two winners will be announced.
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Let Us Show You How To Plan A Cooking With Languages Competition in Your Target Langauge
Learning about a country, its customs and its food is a fabulous way to motivate children to learn languages.
In previous posts, we have explained the many different skills children learn in the kitchen and how the kitchen is a great classroom for language learning.
Today, we are going to show you how to plan a Cooking With Languages competition in your place of learning.
Use Simple Bunting and Fun Food Facts for Decoration
Follow these Simple steps to plan a Cooking With Languages Competition in your Target Language (TL):
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Select your target language (TL) e.g. English
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List countries where your TL is spoken. E.g. England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, USA, Canada
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Prepare templates for the flags for each of the countries
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Research traditional and popular dishes for each country (Note: Keep it simple!) e.g. apple crumble, tatties, banoffee pie …
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Invite your students to:
Choose a recipe (remember they can research their own too!) and prepare step by step instructions in the TL
Prepare photos or even a video in the TL demonstrating each step of the instructions
Invite one set of students each week to give a presentation and bring in a sample of their foods
Alternatively ….
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Hold a Cooking With Languages Competition Day in your TL.
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All students are invited to bring in their creations on a given day.
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A panel of judges select the winning dishes.
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Winners can be for specific age groups, food type or any other creative category you come up with.
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Points are awarded for accuracy of TL, originality, taste and appearance.
Don’t forget to share pictures on your Cooking With Languages
If you would like templates of any materials, just email
cookingwithlanguages@gmail.com and we will send them to you 🙂
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Most children would love the opportunity to be put in the spotlight with the chance to release their inner diva. Whether it’s singing a song or acting out parts of their favourite movie.
How To Help Your Bilingual Masterchef Shine!
Today, we want to share a winning formula to help your children, a future bilingual Masterchef, shine. They will improve their language skills by feeding their imagination as a contestant on a popular television show such as Junior MasterChef or Great British Bake Off – but with a twist.
The icing on the cake is that the show will be conducted in the language they are learning (target language). They could be cooking a paella in Spanish, a kartoffelpuffer in German or a creme brulee in French. It will be fun, competitive and educational as they get their head around a recipe in a foreign language.
Learning a language used to be as dry as day-old bread but not anymore. Children will enjoy cooking with languages, especially if they have the chance to win a prize and be a television star for a day.
Organising a Junior MasterChef or Bake Off is relatively straightforward and could be your party piece for a birthday get-together or for a sleepover.
Unless you have a large kitchen with more than one cooker, it is a good idea to get them all to work from the same recipe and make something that’s relatively quick to cook. With younger children, they could prepare the recipe and you put in the oven for them.
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It’s a mystery…
For Junior Bilingual MasterChef, you could play the Mystery Box challenge so they all have the same ingredients to start. They would then be given 10 minutes to find a recipe in the language they are learning to create a meal which symbolises that country.
For Spain, for example, they could be given the ingredients to make albondigas (meatballs), cocas (mini pizzas) or empanadas (little pasties). The cocas would be ideal for younger children as they could just be asked to decorate ready-made cocas.
The German students could try kasespatzle (similar to macaroni cheese), kartoffelsalat (potato salad) – good for the little ones – or Bavarian apple strudel cake.
In the French corner, we’d suggest cherry clafoutis (fresh fruit and custard dessert), mousse au chocolat (chocolate mousse) or moules marinieres (mussels).
For younger children, we would suggest that you go through a recipe with them so they are copying what you are doing or ask them to do something simple like put the toppings on cocas or decorate cupcakes.
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Older children can follow a recipe in a foreign language while undertaking the Mystery Box challenge. They can be encouraged to put their own twist to it by adding a special ingredient or making it look very special.
Icing on the cake …
In the Bake Off, depending on their age, you can encourage the children to make their own cakes or simply create colourful toppings for ready-made cakes. Again, they will have to use ingredients from their chosen country and follow recipes or instructions in this language too.
Let them shine…
It is a fun idea to find a volunteer to film them while they’re baking. Then get them to introduce themselves and talk about their produce in Spanish, German or French. You can give score points for the best dish as well as the most authentic accent. If you want to be really clever, you could put these on a Facebook page or YouTube to ask their friends to vote on the best ones.
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