The Art of Bread Making

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vmbo g, t
• Leerjaar 1

The Art of Bread Baking

Today's Lesson & Learning Objective

Bread baking - the process

Different types of bread

At the end of the lesson, you...

...will be able to understand the process of baking bread.

...know which ingredients are needed to bake bread.

...you can evaluate your own learning progress.

Introduce the learning objective and explain what students will be able to do by the end of the lesson.

What ingredients are used in baking bread?

What do you already know about the process of baking bread?

Main Ingredients

Flour

Water

Yeast

Salt

00:58

What happens to the dry yeast after being in contact with water?

01:35

Which reason did Jamie mention why you might have to add water?

1. Because of the type of flour you use.
2. Because of the weather/temperature
3. Because of the people, telling you to.
4. Because you might have forgotten it.

02:11

What happens to the gluten when you knead it?

1. It gets weaker
2. It gets stronger

02:47

Jamie is talking about proofing. What do you think proofing means? Write down a translation and/or meaning.

03:20

Proofing your dough causes...

03:39

How long does this dough have to bake?

1. 20 minutes
2. 30 minutes
3. 45 minutes
4. an hour

Spice up your bread...

Work in pairs of 2. Look online for English recipes for bread.

Can you find special, different breads?

What is different from a basic bread dough?

Tip! Go to Google.com and search for: 'Special bread recipes'

Discuss with each other

Explain the mixing process and demonstrate how to mix the ingredients together.

Evaluation

Think about the bread making process. 

What did you understand? What was difficult? What could you do better?

Answer the evaluation questions to check your comprehension (begrip)

Encourage students to evaluate their own learning process and provide feedback on what they have learned.

Write down the ingredients that go in bread.

Here, students enter two things they would like to know more about. This not only increases involvement, but also gives them more ownership.

Write down the steps you remembered in the process of making bread.

The students indicate here (in question form) with which part of the material they still have difficulty. For the teacher, this not only provides insight into the extent to which the students understand/master the material, but also a good starting point for the next lesson.

At the end of the lesson, you...
...will be able to understand the process of making bread.
...know which ingredients are needed to make bread.
...you can evaluate your own learning progress.

1. Ja, dit weet /kan ik nu
2. Nee, dit week/kan ik nu niet.

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Het punt van deze les...

Think about the bread making process. 

What did you understand? What was difficult? What could you do better?

Encourage students to evaluate their own learning process and provide feedback on what they have learned.