Understanding a swedish recipe with the help of the Internet

Learn how to use the Internet in order to understand a text.

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Use your own resources: ...

1. Use your world knowledge. --> ... Do you basically know what ingredients you need to make waffles? what to do with the ingredients? If you do not know how to make waffles, go to the Internet and find an example of a recipe in a language you already know. Before reading the recipe, make some notes on what you know or guess. 2. Use your textual knowledge. --> ... You can easily recognise the structure of the text the title the ingredients the method 3. Use your knowledge of other Germanic languages (as English or German). --> ... You will probably recognise the following words ägg (pronounce the word out loud which will make you understand more easily), salt, (strö)socker, bakpulver, margarin...

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Find pictures to facilitate easier understanding. ... Use for example the Google Image Search, especially for the ingredients (you can immediately recongise what it is in the packet by the packaging and/or label) the method (find the verbs and copy the form to the Google Image Search concrete words like 'våffeljärn' Search for a site that shows a recipe with pictures. ... To do this you need to know two ingredients or two typical actions needed to make waffles and write them down in the Advanced Image Search of the Google Image Search in the box 'related to all of the words'. Then, confine the search by writing 'se' in the 'domain box'. --> If you don't think so, you can go to the following site: >> Use bilingual online dictionaries. ... Swedish-English dictionary of the Swedish Schoolnet Multilingual dictionaries of the Swedish Schoolnet Swedish-German dictionary of Pauker.at

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Comprehension is only possible if knowledge is available at three levels: of the world, the text, linguistics. The Internet can provide additional information based on existing knowledge (e.g. a waffle recipe in a known language). The Internet also helps the learner to understand unknown words (e.g. dictionaries, images, illustrated websites...). Using the Internet, the teacher can choose between: finding interesting links in advance and handing them out to learners to use and access e.g. online dictionaries, or asking the learner to find the resources himself before encouraging him to use these resources in a new/unknown situation. In this case, the learner should be assisted in this task. You can find a page with a photo of the recipe by giving a few of the ingredients or significant verb forms in Advanced Image Search of the Google Image Search.