Baking a Red Velvet Cake

Here is a lesson plan involving baking. This video will make your mouth water…this Red Velvet Cake looks delicious!

Red Velvet by Ofelia from Gonzalo Posada León on Vimeo.

Lesson plan:
1. Have students watch video and write down ingredients.
What are the ingredients names in English? Do all countries measure the same way?
2. Questions for discussion:
Did this Red Velvet cake look good to you?
What kind of things do you like to bake?
What is the difference between baking and cooking? Can you cook a cake?
3. Homework:
Find a recipe that you like. Translate it and bring it in for the class.

Future activities:
Have a pot-luck for lunch, and each student can make the recipe they translated for the class, and everybody can enjoy!

More great pastry recipes found here!

How Stuff Works – Effectively and Clearly Describing… “Stuff”!

How Stuff Works is a website that provides detailed descriptions of… as you would guess… how stuff works!

A great tool to clearly explain any activity such as how to play basketball to describing complex machinery such as a car.

An example of categories are: Auto, Culture, Home & Garden, Entertainment, Money, Science, Tech and more!

Voki – Create Speaking Avatars

What is Voki?
Voki is a free language tool that allows students to record their own voices into the computer. You can add a voice to the Voki avatars and post the Voki to any blog, website, or profile.

Please check out this blog post to see how we used Voki in our class.