Feast of Words: Exploring Comparisons in Food Competitions

Feast of Words: Exploring Comparisons in Food Competitions

Learning Objective

Understand how to make effective comparisons in the context of food competitions.

What do you already know about food competitions and making comparisons?

Introduction to Comparisons

Definition of comparison and its importance in analyzing and evaluating food competition entries.

Types of Comparisons

Exploring comparative adjectives, similes, and metaphors in the context of food descriptions.

Comparing Flavors

Analyzing the use of sensory language to compare flavors in food competition descriptions.

Judging Criteria

Understanding the criteria used for judging food competitions and making comparative evaluations.

Interactive Activity: Descriptive Comparisons

Engaging in a group activity to create descriptive comparisons for food items in a competition setting.

Comparing Winning Entries

Analyzing and comparing descriptions of winning entries from past food competitions.

Practice and Application

Engaging in individual or group practice to write comparisons based on provided food competition scenarios.

Write down 3 things you learned in this lesson.

Have students enter three things they learned in this lesson. With this they can indicate their own learning efficiency of this lesson.

Write down 2 things you want to know more about.

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

Ask 1 question about something you haven't quite understood yet.

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.