This document provides instructions for making almond pastry cookies. It begins with background information on almond pastry, noting that it originated in Sicily during the Middle Ages when a nun invented it using almonds, sugar, and egg whites to make "frutta Martorana" for wealthy visitors to her nunnery. The document then lists activities to complete, including matching ingredients to pictures, writing out the recipe ingredients, and underlining imperative verbs in the instructions and writing them under corresponding pictures. The overall summary is providing a recipe for almond pastry cookies along with background context and activities to reinforce comprehension.

1. ENGLISH FOR HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM
ISTITUTO ISTRUZIONE SUPERIORE
“RENATO GUTTUSO” - MILAZZO

2. LET’S MAKE…
ALMOND PASTRY COOKIES

3. BRAINSTORMING
Do you know what almond pastry is?
Which is the origin of this recipe?
Have you ever made almond pastry cookies?

4. Activity 1
Listen and complete the text by writing one word in each of the gaps
royal pastry – flour – marzipan – sweets – Middle Ages – nunnery – egg – sugar
– food – fruit
Almond pastry, which is a mixture of………...,
almond………...and………..whites, is the basis of different traditional………...in
Southern Italy, although it has been acknowledged as a typical agricultural and
………...product only in Sicily, thanks to the high quality of the Sicilian almonds.
It is also called “pasta riali” (“……………...” in english) in Sicilian dialect,
because it is so tasty that it could be suitable for a king. The almond pastry is
similar to the ………………..., but its origins date back to the……………….,
when a nun invented it in the Martorana…………….. in Palermo in order to
prepare a new dessert, the so called “frutta Martorana” (“Martorana………...”, in
english), to welcome wealthy and important people. The nun couldn’t predict her
new dessert was to be so famous for a very long time.

5. Activity 2
Match the given vocabulary with the pictures below
A B D F
Honey
Sugar
Almond flour
Eggs

6. Activity 3
Now we're going to read the recipe
First read the text below quickly.
Then write all the ingredients in the spaces
below.

9. Activity 4
Read the text again. Then fill in the table
Ingredients Tools Preparation steps

10. Activity 5
Now underlines the imperative verbs and write them under the pictures.
…………. ……………. ……………… ……………..
…………. …………….. ………………… …………