Bon Appétit!

Bon Appétit!

Madame Skiles

Français 1

An Introduction to French Food and Meals!

Read each of the following slides. (Yes! I know they are in French!) Using the PICTURE, COGNATES and WORDS YOU ALREADY KNOW, try and figure out what each slide is saying. Then, answer the questions that follow.

Multiple Choice

Do most French people eat big breakfasts?

• Oui! (Yes!)

• Non! (No!)

Multiple Select

What do adults usually have for breakfast? Check all that apply.

• coffee

• waffles

• bread

• scrambled eggs

Multiple Choice

What are these?

• macarons

• crêpes

• croissants

• baguettes

Multiple Choice

What do you think happens between 12h and 14h (12:00 and 2:00) in France?

• A lot of stores and businesses close

• The food trucks in Paris park in front of the Eiffel Tower

• Restaurants offer a buy one meal get one meal deal

• Restaurants refuse to serve ketchup as a condiment

Multiple Choice

School cafeterias often serve "du steak-frites, du poulet ou des pâtes." What do you think those are?

• steak & fries, pizza and salad

• steak & fries, chicken and pasta

• steak & fries, sandwiches and ham

• steak & fries, soup and omelets

Open Ended

Believe it or not, there are 1300 McDonald's (McDo) in the country of France including this one in Paris. If you were visiting France, would you want to go to McDo or would you avoid having "American" food in France? Why?

Poll

While we Americans might consider an omelet a breakfast food, in France it's more for lunch or dinner. Which do you think is better?

• Omelets are definitely breakfast food!

• Omelets for lunch sounds better.

• I don't really like eggs so it doesn't matter to me.

• Omelets are delicious ANYTIME!

Multiple Choice

For dinner most French people eat some kind of "viande" which is meat or "poisson". What do you think "poisson" means?

• potato

• strawberry

• fish

• poison

Multiple Choice

What are CAMEMBERT, BRIE and ROQUEFORT?

• types of chocolate

• types of bread

• types of cheese

• characters from the movie Ratatouille

Multiple Choice

The French actually often eat YOGURT as dessert! Did you know that the two biggest producers of yogurt in the United States were originally French companies. One is DANNON. What is the other one?

• Chobani

• Fage

• Stonyfield

• Yoplait

Multiple Choice

What do you think café means?

• tea

• hot chocolate

• coffee

• cup