BRISBANE - Year 9 students at Mount Alvernia College recently put their culinary skills to the test, learning how to prepare bruschetta using the basic ingredients of the Mediterranean diet: bread, tomatoes, olive oil, garlic, oregano and salt.
What Italians consider the classic summer snack was met with great enthusiasm and surprise by the girls - many of whom couldn’t believe that traditional bruschetta could be so delicious, despite using just a handful of ingredients.
The culinary experience provided an opportunity for a quick review of key Italian phonetic rules.
First and foremost, the sound of the letter sequence -sche in the word bruschetta, as well as the sound of the syllable -gli in aglio and how it differs from the -li in olio.
To practise these tricky sounds, the students learned the Bruschetta Macarena, a song written especially for them, with lyrics that illustrate the recipe step by step.
All the morning’s activities were designed to meet the cultural and linguistic objectives outlined in Version 9 of the Australian Curriculum for the topic Let’s eat – Mangiamo!
Mount Alvernia College is one of the schools in Queensland whose Italian program is supported by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI), via the Italian Language Centre.
