UNIVERSIDAD DE LA SABANA

DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES

LEVEL 5, 2020-1
NAME: Melissa Ordoñez Rincón SIGA ID: 0000183173
TICKET-IN WEEK 13
Class Task # 3 Preparation – Global Culture around Food
Country: France
Prepare information and Key phrases (using the studied grammar) to ONE of the following questions, as agreed with
your group.
Contents of the Video:
- EATING CULTURE OF THE COUNTRY:
1. General facts about food and eating in that country.
2. Funny, interesting, surprising or strange eating habits of that country.
- REPRESENTATIVE DISH (ES) OF THE COUNTRY (the group chooses 1 or 2 dishes)
3. General information about the dish’s preparation.
4. Manner, etiquette and recommendations for eating that dish.

The point that I am in charge of is number: __2__

INFORMATION:
A. Look for relevant and detailed information about your point:

 Room temperature water: In France, unless they are in the middle of a heat wave, they drink the water
at room temperature and that is also how it is served in restaurants.
 Super stinky cheese: The stinker the cheese, the better: That's what makes it beautiful and perfect.
 Eating cheese at the end of the meal: In the traditional French meal, you eat cheese after the main
course and right before dessert. You usually have at least a couple of cheeses to choose from at home
and you eat them with some bread and a green salad.
 Drinking hot coffee in the summer: Iced coffee is simply not a thing in France, and everyone drinks
their coffee hot whether it is freezing outside or scorching hot.
 Fruits for dessert.
 Getting fresh bread everyday: they do love our baguettes and it is very common to buy one or two
every day. You eat about a quarter of it as a snack on your way home from the bakery, and the rest
during dinner and with some cheese. It is brilliant.
 French restaurants tend to only open during French dining hours, which means 12:00 to 2:30 pm and
8 to 10 pm. They are often closed on Sundays and Mondays as well as during the summer for 4 to 6
weeks over the customary August break.
 Ridiculously long meals: During the summer, on Sundays, or during festive evenings, meals can last
three to four hours. It often starts with an apéritif, which is a French-style happy hour with light savory
snacks and drinks. You then have an appetizer, a main dish, followed by a selection of cheeses with a
green salad, before moving on to the desserts and finishing the whole thing with an espresso. It may
sound like a lot, but our portions are smaller than in the US and we really take our time between each
course.
 You know knives are not optional: In France knives are not only useful for cutting into a steak, they are
here (mostly, but not only) for pushing the food from your plate onto your fork. There is nothing more
awkward than trying to get a few grains of rice or eat some long green beans than with just the use of a
fork. Cutting a slice of cheese at the end of the meal and spreading on a piece of bread is not optional,
so neither is the knife.
 UNIVERSIDAD DE LA SABANA
DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES
LEVEL 5, 2020-1

Buzzfeed (2018). 21 Weird French Food Habits That Always Surprise Americans. Taken from:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/marietelling/weird-french-food-habits

KEY PHRASES TO BE USED IN THE PRESENTATION

 Modal verbs: have to/don’t have to; must/mustn’t/can/can’t; should/shouldn’t; is-are allowed to/ isn’t-aren’t allowed to
 First conditional (if, when, as soon as, unless, until, before)
B. Write at least 5 sentences to be used in your video in your video using the grammar above:

- You should not show dislike for cheese.

- You have to eat at the same times as the French because the restaurants close at certain times.
- You can eat all the bread you want at any time.
- You do not have to ask for cold coffee, the French do not drink this.
- Sometimes the meals are allowed to longest.

KEY VOCABULARY TO BE USED IN THE PRESENTATION

C. Study the vocabulary bank at: https://quizlet.com/_6iehx2
D. Write at least 10 words that you will use in the section you prepared. Add at least 5 other words based on your information
search.

1. Dessert
2. Entree / Appetizer / Starter
3. Cutlery
4. Tasty
5. Baked
6. Ingredient
7. Main course
8. Try
9. Baked
10. Bland

1. Stinkier
2. Snack
3. Palate
4. Raw meat
5. Fresh bread