French Food Tasting Session

On Tuesday, November 27th, there will be a French food tasting session in our Tourism class: charcuterie, fromage & patisserie. Please be sure to bring napkins, paper plates and paper to cover the tables. Also remember to wash your hands before class.  Drinks are up to you.

Eating French – A Linguistic Introduction for EFL Students

[Revised: 15 January, 2014]
 

France is famous for its delicacies. In fact, for French people, eating well is a science as well as an art. The five posts mentioned below are about different types of French food. Each post provides words that you should know if you travel to a French-speaking country. Smart tourists who are not rich don't spend lots of money on fancy restaurants. Instead, they go to French food shops. Here are the five types of food shops. 

These five language learning posts show you pictures of different French foods and use IPA (the International Phonetic Alphabet) to help you how to pronounce them correctly:

1-charcuteries, 2-fromageries, 3-boulangeries, 4-pâtisseries and 5-crêperies

These shops sell: 1-cooked meat, 2-cheese, 3-bread, 4-pastry and 5-crepes.

Remember: when traveling, the best way to enjoy good food while saving money is to eat what local people eat. If you're in a hurry or on a tight budget, supermarkets are more convenient and even cheaper than the specialized food shops mentioned above, but the quality and freshness are not the same.

If you want to try some street food, frites /frit/ (French fries) and croque-monsieur /kʁɔk məsjø/ (a French style grilled cheese sandwich with ham) are two popular choices:

Sensing Croque Monsieur, CC-BY Snowpea&Bokchoi, www DOT flickr DOT com SLASH photos SLASH 28531775@N06 SLASH 4666262530

Charcuterie: French-Style Prepared Meat Products

Saucisson sec: 640px-Salami_aka (CC-BY André Karwath).jpg

Fromage: French Cheese

Camembert, the most famous French cheese (CC-BY-SA, NJGJ)

Pâtisserie: French Pastry

Mille-Feuille (CC-BY-SA, Georges Seguin (Okki))

Baguettes and Croissants: French Bread and Bread-Like Snacks

611px-Mie_Baguette_de_tradition_France (CC-BY-SA DocteurCosmos).jpeg

Crêpes: French-style Thin Pancakes (Sweet or Savory)

(CC-BY-SA User, Wikipedia)

SSS: Start with Simple Stories

Reading lots and lots of easy stories is a great way to improve your English. This is called the SSS Method. This wonderful way to learn has been successfully used in Japan for many years. Choose fun, easy books to start with (graded readers, such as Oxford Bookworms). There are three rules to follow:

1) Don't use a dictionary to read everything (= don't stop to look up words). Just pay attention to the story!

2) If you see a new word, try to guess it. If you can't, just keep on reading. Enjoy the story!

3) After reading two or three pages, if the story is boring or too difficult, just get another book. Have fun!

Here's a book written in Japanese by 古川昭夫、河手真理子 and translated by高淑珍: 丟掉字典學英語. This book tells you what to do and how to do it. Buy it online or from a library. 

關於SSS（Start with Simple Stories）學習法：

請不要查字典, 看不懂的地方跳過去, 對不感興趣的書暫時擱下

/k/ Spelling Rules: Test

Test is here.

Presentations Midterm

Exam is here.