Understanding a Swedish recipe

Imagine you are a student when you are doing the activity.

• Specific objectives ...

Use online resources to discover strategies that help you to understand texts: using a search engine finding sites which help you to understand a recipe better Working with on-line dictionaries

• Context and task ...

You have been to Sweden and you have tasted a Swedish speciality. Simply delicious! Immediately, you look on the Internet to find an original Swedish recipe. You find the following recipe you need to be able to prepare the dish. Even though you have never learned Swedish, you ought to understand the recipe.

• Performing the task >>

Utilisez vos propres ressources: >> Utilisez les ressources Internet: Trouvez des images pour mieux comprendre grâce à la recherche d'images de Google, notamment pour les ingrédients (leur repérage est facile vue la disposition classique de la recherche) les actions (repérez les verbes et reportez les formes dans Google-Images les mots concrets comme 'våffeljärn' Cherchez un site présentant une recette en images. ?? Pour cela, repérez trois ingrédients ou deux actions typiques d'une recette de gaufres et entrez ces mots-clés dans une recherche approfondie sur Google-images dans la case 'tous les mots'. Eventuellement, restreignez auy sites suédois en entrant 'se' dans la case 'domaines'. Utilisez des dictionnaires bilingues en ligne: Dictionnaire français-suédois de Azoria.com Dictionnaires multilingues de Swedish Schoolnet Dictionnaire suédois-allemand de Pauker.at

• Comments ...

Comprehension is only possible if knowledge is available at three levels: of the world, the text, linguistics. First it is important that the learner is helped to implement his knowledge, and second that Internet resources are used to solve any remaining difficulties. We recommend learners use the following Internet resources for the task: search engines to extend proper world knowledge use Google Image Search for an illustrated text sites presenting a similar illustrated text (a Swedish recipe with photos) online dictionaries.