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Year 1 - Cooking and nutrition

Let's make a layered breakfast

Let's start cooking

Unit Summary

This unit introduces pupils to food and gives them their first opportunity to prepare simple dishes. Pupils use different food skills and equipment, and learn about handling food safely and hygienically.

Lesson Summary

You will learn to make a layered breakfast.

Key Notes

  • We should have breakfast everyday.
  • Before cooking, we need to get ready to cook to be safe and hygienic.
  • The food skills used to make a layered breakfast are spooning and layering.
  • Spoons can be used for measuring, adding ingredients and spreading.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • breakfast: the meal eaten in the morning
  • hygienic: keeping yourself clean
  • spooning: using a spoon to put food onto or into something
  • layered: arrange in a layer, on top

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • Hands can be washed in cold water with soap.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain the lesson in two key points.

We should have breakfast everyday. Before cooking, we need to get ready to cook to be safe and hygienic.

2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'breakfast'

the meal eaten in the morning.

3. Correct this common mistake.

Mistake: Hands can be washed in cold water with soap. Correction: Hands must be washed in warm water with soap, then dried well.

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