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Join the Class Cooking Contest!

3rd Grade Common Core RL.3.1 Letter 150 words ⏱ 20 minESL A1–A2

An email from the class committee inviting students to a cooking contest: the rules, the prizes and what not to bring.

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Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Hi everyone,

Our class is having a cooking contest on Thursday, March 5, in the school kitchen. You can take part alone or in a team of two. The theme this year is "A Healthy Snack".

Here are the rules. Each team prepares one snack and brings enough for twelve people to taste. You must also write the recipe on one page, so that others can make it at home. Please do not bring anything with nuts, because some students in our class are allergic to them.

Our judges are the school nurse, Mrs. Perez, and our cooking teacher, Mr. Levi. They will choose the winners by taste, look and how healthy the snack is. The winning team will get a cookbook, and all the recipes will go into a class booklet.

To sign up, reply to this email by Sunday.

See you in the kitchen! Logan, the class committee

📘 Word bank
contest
a competition
theme
the main subject
taste
to try a small amount of food
recipe
instructions for making food
allergic
getting sick from something that is usually harmless
sign up
to put your name on a list

✏️ Questions

  1. Key details

    Where is the cooking contest?

  2. Key details

    What is the theme of the contest?

  3. Key details

    How many people should each team bring food for?

  4. Inference

    Why must the teams write the recipe?

  5. Key details

    Why are nuts not allowed?

  6. Reference words

    In paragraph 4, "They" in "They will choose the winners" refers to…

  7. Key details

    What will happen to all the recipes?

  8. Key details

    How can students sign up, and by when?

Questions

  1. Where is the cooking contest?

    1. At Logan's house.
    2. In the school kitchen.
    3. In a restaurant.
    4. In the school yard.

  2. What is the theme of the contest?

    ______________________________________________________________

  3. How many people should each team bring food for?

    1. Two.
    2. Five.
    3. Twelve.
    4. The whole school.

  4. Why must the teams write the recipe?

    1. So that others can make the snack at home.
    2. So that the judges can cook it.
    3. Because it is homework.
    4. To sell it.

  5. Why are nuts not allowed?

    ______________________________________________________________

  6. In paragraph 4, "They" in "They will choose the winners" refers to…

    1. the students.
    2. the teams.
    3. the parents.
    4. the judges.

  7. What will happen to all the recipes?

    1. They will go into a class booklet.
    2. They will be thrown away.
    3. They will be sent to a newspaper.
    4. Only the winning recipe will be kept.

  8. How can students sign up, and by when?

    ______________________________________________________________

Answer key

  1. b) In the school kitchen.
  2. A Healthy Snack.
  3. c) Twelve.
  4. a) So that others can make the snack at home.
  5. Because some students in the class are allergic to them.
  6. d) the judges.
  7. a) They will go into a class booklet.
  8. By replying to the email, by Sunday.

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