Chocolate Cake

Activities
I. Instructions: Read the following questions and answer them correctly. You can search for your answers on the web.

1. Where is chocolate originally from?

2. Where is chocolate mainly grown nowadays?

3. What is the etymological meaning of the word chocolate?

Answers: 1. Chocolate comes from the beans of the cacao tree, a small tropical tree native to Central and South America 2. the continent of Africa 3. Perhaps the most cited explanation is that "chocolate" comes from Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs, from the word chocoltl, which many sources derived from xocoltl [okolat], from xococ 'sour' or 'bitter', and tl 'water' or 'drink'. Answers taken from http://www.ask.com/questions-about/Where-Did-Chocolate-Originally-Come-from, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate#Etymology.

II. Instructions: Listen to the shortstory Chocolate Cake by Michael Rosen on the following Web site: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BxQLITdOOc. As you listen to the poem, read the extracts from the written version of Chocolate cake. Underline what you hear in the audio.

I love chocolate cake. And when I was a boy I loved it even more.

I could almost see it so I thought, what if I go downstairs and have a little nibble, yeah? It was all dark everyone was in bed so it must have been really late but I got out of bed, crept out of the door there's always a creaky floorboard, isn't there? Past Mum and Dad's room, careful not to tread on bits of broken toys or bits of Lego you know what it's like treading on Lego with your bare feet, yowwww shhhhhhh downstairs into the kitchen open the cupboard and there it is all shining. So I take it out of the cupboard put it on the table and I see that there's a few crumbs lying about on the plate, so I lick my finger and run my finger all over the crumbs scooping them up and put them into my mouth.

Sometimes we used to have it for tea and Mum used to say, 'If there's any left over you can have it to take to school tomorrow to have at playtime.' And the next day I would take it to school wrapped up in tin foil open it up at playtime and sit in the corner of the playground eating it, you know how the icing on top is all shiny and it cracks as you bite into it, and there's that other kind of icing in the middle and it sticks to your hands and you can lick your fingers and lick your lips oh it's lovely. yeah. Anyway, once we had this chocolate cake for tea and later I went to bed but while I was in bed I found myself waking up licking my lips and smiling. I woke up proper. chocolate cake.' It was the first thing I thought of.

Answers: when I was a boy/ left over/ to school tomorrow to have at playtime./ I went to bed/'The chocolate cake.'/ go downstairs/ creaky floorboard/ careful not to tread/ downstairs/ into the kitchen/ open the cupboard/ and there it is/ crumbs on the plate

III. Instructions: Now, read the complete shortstory at www.poemhunter.com/poem/chocolate-

cake/, and find the phrases in the box in the text. Finally, write the phrases next to their definition.

To wrap up in tin foil

To have a little nibble

To tread on

To scoop something up a chocolate smudge

To be crumbly To squeal

To smack ones lips

1._____________________to remove something or to take something away. 2._____________________to press them together and open them quickly and noisily, as in eating or tasting. 3._____________________to take a small bite. 4._____________________to give forth a loud shrill cry or sound. 5._____________________To step or walk on. 6._____________________An irregularly shaped spot of chocolate. 7._____________________To fold, or coil about something with paper-thin metal sheeting. 8._____________________Easily broken into small fragments or reduced to powder.

Answers: 1. To scoop something up 2. To smack ones lips 3. To have a little nibble 4. To squeal 5. To tread on 6. a chocolate smudge 7. To wrap up in tin foil 8. To be crumbly

IV.

Instructions:

Complete the following table with the correct form of the verbs taken from Chocolate Cake.

Infinitive bite crack cram creep doze lick scoop shine slice smack squeal stuff tidy tread

Past Tense

Past Participle

Gerund

Answers: bite, bit, bitten, biting/crack, cracked, cracked, cricking/cram, crammed, crammed, cramming/creep, crept, crept, creeping/doze, dozed, dozed, dozing/lick, licked, licked, licking/scoop, scooped, scooped, scooping/shine, shone, shone, shining/slice, sliced, sliced, slicing/smack, smacked, smacked, smacking/squeal, squealed, squealed, squealing/stuff, stuffed, stuffed, stuffing/tidy, tidied, tidied, tidying/ tread, trod, trodden, treading.

V. Instructions:

Write a composition (100-120 words) in which you answer the following questions:

How do people make chocolate cake in England? How do they make it in Mexico?

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