COOKERY 7 Module 1
COOKERY 7 Module 1
COOKERY Module 1
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                        Table of Contents
Lesson 1                ----------------    5
What’s In               ----------------    5
What’s New              ----------------    5
What is It              ----------------    5
What’s More             ----------------    8
Lesson 2                ----------------    9
What’s New              ----------------    9
What is It              ----------------    10
What’s More             ----------------    12
Lesson 3                ----------------    13
What’s New              ----------------    13
What is It              ----------------    13
What’s More             ----------------    15
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                   What I Know
Directions: Choose the letter of your answer. Write it in your TLE notebook.
   1. An art and science of preparing food for consumption by using heat.
           A. Technology
           B. Cookery
           C. Industrial Arts
           D. Practical Arts
   2. The main task of a restaurant manager                        _.
           A. makes decisions on menus and day to day offerings.
           B. manages, leads and supervises the restaurant operations.
           C. cooks and prepares large amount of food for events and parties.
           D. prepares      the   food   for photography     in books    and     other
              publications.
   3. A kind of job that oversees the daily operations of restaurant and hotel
       kitchens.
           A. Restaurant Manager
           B. Restaurant Cook
           C. Front Office Agent
           D. Executive Chef
   4. Putting up your own business requires a lot of patience, integrity and
       dedication.
           A. Hardworking
           B. Risk taker
           C. Committed
           D. Persistence
   5. A characteristic of a person who is forward looking.
           A. Goal oriented
           B. Persistence
           C. Risk taker
           D. Committed
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6. A characteristic of an entrepreneur who is strong enough in dealing and
   solving the challenges you may undertake as you go with running your
   business.
       A. Creative
       B. Risk taker
       C. Disciplined
       D. Honest
7. In a business SWOT stands for?
       A. Strengths, Wellbeing, Opportunities, Threat
       B. Sudden, Weaknesses, Outstanding, Threats
       C. Social Ways of Overcoming Threats
       D. Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities Threats
8. A SWOT analysis looks at?
       A. The internal factors only
       B. Both internal and external factors
       C. The external factors only
       D. None of the above
9. In a SWOT analysis, which two elements are parts of the internal
   environment?
       A. Strength and threats
       B. Weaknesses and strengths
       C. Opportunities and threats
       D. Weaknesses and threats
10. Which of the following display the traits of a successful chef?
       A. They discourage employees creativity.
       B. They do things the way they were taught and do not change.
       C. They are knowledgeable about many different foods and
           techniques.
       D. They do not allow employees to provide input on decision in the work
           place.
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11. The following are the importance of cookery EXCEPT
       A. Promote self esteem
       B. Start culinary career
       C. Making money
       D. Improve cooking skills
12. An individual who would like to engage in any business must possess a strong
   faith in his / her ability and capabilities in dealing with the different problems
   that she might encounter in running a business.
        A. Persistence
       B. Hardworking
       C. Self - confidence
       D. Committed
13. What trait is shown if the person knows how to handle unusual events that
   may happen in the business?
       A. Goal oriented
       B. Copes with uncertainty
       C. Hard working
       D. Committed
14. Which of the following statements hold true about SWOT Analysis?
       A. Identifying the external factors that are favorable and unfavorable to
          achieve the objective.
       B. Involves specifying the objective of the business venture.
       C. Identifying the internal factors that are favorable and unfavorable to
          achieve the objective.
       D. All of these
15. Which of the following show weakness in the SWOT analysis?
       A. The place is quite expensive.
       B. Have a supportive parent.
       C. Good in public speaking.
       D. Lack of stress management skills.
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  Lesson
                            INTRODUCTION TO COOKERY
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What’s In
Directions: Answer the following questions and write your answer in your TLE
notebook
   1. What do you want to become in the future?
   2. How will you succeed in your chosen career?
What’s New
What is It
Cookery
       It is an art and science of preparing food for consumption by using heat. The
“how of cooking” can be considered to be the art and the “why of cooking” could be
the science. Cookery is also the skill or activity of preparing and cooking food.
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Importance of the Course Cookery
There are several reasons as to why cookery course is necessary to learn
1. Get Acquainted with your Kitchen – helps you to make familiar with your
kitchen and all the tools and equipments in it
2. Improve Cooking Skills – trains you how to cook and definitely improve and
develop your cooking abilities
3. Promote Self Esteem – helps you build self – esteem and confidence
knowing that you can now start and then complete a task like cooking
Job Opportunities
       There are number of job opportunities in cookery that you can benefit from
once you earn a degree in this field of specialization. The kind of job that you can find
depends on your specialization in cookery. This career can help you to work as a:
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                      Their tasks include buying the food, preparing
                        it, moving it to the location, and finishing off
                        plating in a timely manner.
                      Their challenge is to keep the food hot and
                        delicious while serving many guests at the same
                        time.
    Food and          They are responsible for ensuring that all food
Beverage manager        and drinks are of the highest quality.
                      Design unique menus, handling customer
                        complaints, creating company policies and
                        complying with food and safety regulations.
Front Office Agent    Performs all front desks duties such as check –
                        in and check – out, reservations,
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                                        phone messages and special request from the
                                        guest.
What’s More
Directions: Identify what is being asked in the following statements. Choose your
answer from the box and write it on the space provided. Copy these in your TLE
notebook.
                  2. Helps you build self – esteem and confidence knowing that you
can now start and then complete a task like cooking
                   6. Writes articles and blogs for food industry journals and other
publications.
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                7. Help make decisions on menus and day to day offerings.
                9. Cooks and prepare foods that have the responsibility to make large
amounts of food for events and parties.
What’s New
Activity: Read the short story and answer the given questions. Write your
answer in your TLE notebook.
       James grew up in a poor family where he learned the importance of hard work.
When he was in high school, he sold newspapers and cigarettes to help pay for his
schooling.
       James learned he was good at woodworking in his TLE classes, and realized
he wanted to make it his profession someday. After high school, he was not able to go
on to college because of lack of money. Instead, he was obliged to work in a furniture
company.
       The company where he worked closed when James was 20, and he found
himself suddenly out of job. Instead of applying in another company, he decided to
start his own furniture business. He raised money from his savings and through loans.
       To save his limited capital, James did not hire any help. He budgeted his
money very carefully, spending most of it on good tools and materials. He
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worked long hours creating clever designs for his furniture, and looking for better
ways to build them. James started selling his designs to hotels, restaurants, and
resorts. They liked his work so much, and soon, orders began pouring in and his
business grew.
        Today, James is the owner of one of the most successful furniture companies
in the country.
Guide Questions: Write your answer in your TLE notebook
    1. What are the characteristics that helped James succeed?
    2. How did James acquire his trait of being hardworking?
    3. What did he discover during his TLE classes in high school?
What is It
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4. Goal – Oriented – Entrepreneur knows how to set specific, measurable,
attainable, realistic, and time-bound (SMART) goals. It is easy for them to divide
large goals into short-term goals.
5. Persistence – Entrepreneurs do not easily give up in the face of problems. This
includes making a personal sacrifice or extraordinary effort to complete a job.
6. Ability to accept change – Entrepreneurs should handle with and do well on
changes. Nothing is permanent but change. Change occurs frequently. Capitalize on
positive changes to make your business grow.
7. Has the initiative - An entrepreneur takes the initiative. He has the ability to
analyze and initiate things independently for the success of his business.
8. Committed - Good entrepreneurs assume full responsibility over their business.
They give full commitment and solid dedication to make the business successful.
9. Risk-taking - Entrepreneurs are known for doing tasks that are moderately
challenging in order to achieve a goal.
10. Disciplined - Successful entrepreneurs always stick to the plan and fight the
temptation to do what is unimportant.
11. Creative - An entrepreneur should be creative and innovative to stay in the
business and in order to have an edge over the other competitors
12. Demand for efficiency and quality - Entrepreneur see to it that the business
meets or exceeds existing standards of excellence and exerts efforts to improve past
performance and do things better. They set high but realistic standards
13. Excellent planner - A good entrepreneur develops and follows the steps in the
plans diligently to realize goals. A good entrepreneur knows that planning is an
effective skill only when combined with action.
14. Possesses people skills - This is a very important skill needed to be
successful in any kind of business. People skills refer to effective and efficient
communication and establishing good relationship to the people working in and out of
your business. In day-to-day business transactions, you need to deal with people. A
well-developed interpersonal skill can make a huge difference between success and
failure of the business.
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15. Sound decision maker - Successful entrepreneurs have the ability to think
quickly and to make wise decisions towards a pre planned set of objectives. Sound
decisions should be based on given facts and information and lead towards the pre
planned objectives.
16. Information seeking - Entrepreneur update themselves with new information
about his customers, the market, suppliers, and competitors. This is rooted to their
natural sense of curiosity.
What’s More
Matching Type: Match column A with column B. Write the letter of the correct
answer in your TLE notebook.
           Column A                                  Column B
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  Lesson                             ANALYZING SWOT
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What’s New
What is It
SWOT Analysis
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                   INTERNAL                                 EXTERNAL
    Strengths                                 Opportunities
P
    -   Positive        and    controllable   - Positive factors that are not within
O
    factors that contribute to the the control of the business.
S   business’ success.                        -   Possibilities that you can take
I   -       An     internal   resource   or advantage of to help you achieve your
    capability which is needed to goals and ambitions
T
    achieve the desired goals.                - An external situation that could
I                                             provide a competitive advantage.
    Examples:
V            Cheap raw materials             Examples:
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                Limited space inside the                and   more     effective    are
                 establishment,      thereby             coming out.
                 limiting the number of                 New      technologies       are
                 customers it can                        available and are used by
                 accommodate.                            competitors.
What’s More
Directions: Below are factors and elements in the business, market and environment
that affect the success of the business. Determine whether they are (S) strengths, (W)
weaknesses, (O) opportunities or (T) threats. Write only the first letter of your answer
and write it in your TLE notebook.
                        _1. The business has staff who are experienced and well
– trained.
                        _2. There are new technologies that are better and more
advanced than what the business uses.
                        _3. The government strongly supports small and medium
enterprises to boost the growth of the businesses.
                        _4. The business is located in an area that has many
customers.
                        _5. New and popular products are being introduced in the
market from other competitors.
                        _6. The establishment looks old and needs repairs.
                        _7. The owner has invested small capital into the business.
                        _8. The business space has a limited capacity to entertain
many customers at the same time.
                        _9. The small nature of the business enables it to provide
excellent customer care because the small amount of work allows its staff to devote
more time to customers.
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                          10. The small size of the business’ workforce puts it in
helpless position when a staff member becomes sick or takes a leave from work.
Directions: Fill in the blanks with the missing word/s to complete each statement.
Choose your answer/s from the box below. Write your answer in your TLE notebook.
           Culinary class        Strengths Not within
                                                   Managing        Planning tool
           Hot and delicious PlanNew information
                                                      Article and blogs
                                                       Skill/activity
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                  What I Can Do
Directions: Create a business idea that relates with a career choice in cookery. From
the business idea that you created write two strengths, opportunities, weaknesses and
threats. You will be guided to the following questions for each feature. Write your
answer in your TLE notebook.
Strengths Opportunities
Weaknesses Threats
       What business resources are1. What are your business you lack in or need more?competitors?
       What are negative feedbacks of2. What new business resources
       your business?are you lack in?
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                  Assessment
Choose the letter of the best answer. Write the chosen letter on your TLE
notebook.
   1. He/she oversees the daily operations of restaurant and hotel kitchens.
            A. Restaurant Manager
            B. Restaurant Cook
            C. Front Office Agent
            D. Executive Chef
   2. This refers to the preparation of food with the application of art and
       science.
            A. Technology
            B. Cookery
            C. Industrial Arts
            D. Practical Arts
   3. The main task of a restaurant manager
            A. Make decisions on menus and day to day offerings.
            B. Manage, lead and supervise the restaurant operations.
            C. Cooks and prepare large amount of food for events and parties.
            D. Prepares        the   food   for photography   in books      and   other
                publications
   4. A businessman who takes time to listen to the advice, suggestions, and
       recommendations of fellow entrepreneurs is called_                         _.
       .    A. responsible
            B. willing to listen
            C. committed
            D. hard working
    5.A successful entrepreneur who ventures new business ideas. This
      characteristic is called                    .
            A. initiative
            B. risk taker
            C. opportunity seeker
            D. committed
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6. The bread and butter of the business not only for you but also for your
   family.
       A. Profit oriented
       B. Takes initiative
       C. Risk taker
       D. Opportunity seeker
7. These are the two elements of internal environment.
       A. Strength and threats
       B. Opportunities and threats
       C. Weaknesses and strengths
       D. Weaknesses and threats
8. In the acronym SWOT, S stands for                         .
       A. Star
       B. Stress
       C. Social
       D. Strength
9. What are the factors that SWOT analysis considers?
       A. The internal factors only
       B. The external factors only
       C. Both internal and external factors
       D. None of the above
10. These are the importance of cookery EXCEPT
       A. Promote self esteem
       B. Making money
       C. Start culinary career
       D. Improve cooking skills
11. The following are undesirable traits of chefs EXCEPT
       A. They discourage employees creativity.
       B. They do things the way they were taught and do not change.
       C. They are knowledgeable about many different foods and
             techniques.
       D. They do not allow employees to provide input on decision in the work
             place.
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12. Knows how to handle unusual events that may happen in the business which
   include problems in managing the workers, problems on the delivery of goods
   and services, and the problems on demand and production. You must be
   patient in dealing with these uncertainties.
       A. Goal oriented
       B. Hard working
       C. Copes with uncertainty
       D. Committed
13. An individual who would like to engage in any business must possess a strong
   faith in his / her ability and capabilities in dealing with the different problems
   that she might encounter in running a business.
       A. Persistence
       B. Hardworking
       C. Self - confidence
       D. Committed
14. Which of these statements is true about SWOT Analysis?
       A. Specifying the objective of the business venture
       B. Identifying the external factors that are favorable and unfavorable to
          achieve the objective
       C. Identifying the internal factors that are favorable and unfavorable to
          achieve the objective
       D. All of these
15. Identify which of the examples is a Weakness.
       A. The place is quite expensive.
       B. Have a supportive parent.
       C. Good in public speaking.
       D. Lack stress management skills.
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                  Additional Activities
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8. Are you organized?
       a. I make plans before doing things.
       b. I do not make plans ahead of time.
9. Are you optimistic/cheerful?
       a. I have a positive attitude towards work.
       b. I am pessimistic by nature.
10. Are you quality conscious?
       a. I always aim for excellence in my undertakings.
       b. I get tired of looking for ways of improving the quality of whatever I do.
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        Answer Key
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           References
Books
Internet Sources
https://careertrend.com/career-opportunities-in-cooking-
     https://www.slideshare.net/lionnagaraju/interactive-teaching-
     techniques-swot-analysis.
     https://www.slideshare.net/rohitmohan754/introduction-to-cookery
     https://hmhub.me/introduction-to-cookery/
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