Ghana by Year 4 @ St Luke's



Shopping In Ghana 
By Callum

Introduction
This is compering between different shopping styles in Ghana. Also changing styles in the shops.

Traditional Shopping
The markets in Ghana are huge. You can buy anything there. Street vendors stop at traffic to sell there goodes also they wear a speshal cloff on there head so they put the stuff they need to sell. Most people in Ghana finck that the best way to hold a bucket is to put it on your head.

Modern Shopping
The shops in Ghana look the same as my shops in England. They have doors a roof and even a car park so cars can park. 

20/03/13

Lucy has made some some traditional Ghanaian food at home, using the recipe posted on Culture Chat last week. It looks delicious! Super work Lucy. Well done!




Traditional Ghanaian Homes  
By Joe

Building Materials
Mud bricks are dried in the sun and arranged to make houses. People sometimes use stone instead. They then spread animal dung on the walls to give a smooth effect to them. The roofs are either thatched, with wooden braces or flat. Thatched roofs are made with dried grass or straw.

Design and Purpose
There is usually one room in the house, where the whole family eats and sleeps. A homestead is where more than one house is put together. The bit in the middle of the homestead is called the courtyard, where food is cooked. Houses have no windows to keep the cool air in because Ghana is a very hot country.

Occupants and Lifestyle
Everyone in a family lives in a homestead together so everyone can look after each other. Men are responsible for building new houses. Women are responsible for cooking, fetching water and looking after the children.

Traditional Ghanaian Homes 
By John

Building Materials 
They use dung to help make the houses. They use dung, grass, stone and mud bricks. The thatched roofs are made of dryed grass and wooden braces.

Design and Purpose
Normally they decorate their houses with putting patterns on it or painting it. Their houses are round or square. Their houses have no windows to keep theirselves cool and they have small doors so they can keep away from prediters.

Occupants and Lifestyle
Women are responceble for fetching warter/cooking and looking after the kids. Men are responceble for building houses. When houses are squished together it is called a compound. The courtyard is in the middle where all the chickens are.


11/03/13
Ghanaian Food
 
Fishing boat
Sources of Food 
by Daniela
In Ghana there are loads of ways to get food for families. These are places called sources. Some families grow food in their back garden. The grow stuff like fruit and veg. Also children grow food in their schools garden to eat. They can also get their food from farms. They have different types of farms too. They can go fishing to get food. Some families go fishing in their boat.

Traditional stove over an open fire
Cooking Methods 
by Ashley
Slow cooking is a custormy (customary) method of preparing African food. Ingredients are placed in a pot and slowly heated over a fire. The pot stands on three stowns over a fire. Gainea (Guinea) corn is used for fuel because it is easea (easier) than getting firewood. But now they used straw wrapped in string to save energy.




Ingredients 
by Lizzie
In Ghana some people use ingredients such as potatoes, plantains, yam, rice and corn. It is bland so they get flavoured with spice and herbs such as curry, ginger, garlic, cayenne and cinnamon. Some people use fresh tomatoes. These ingredients make up the most delicious Ghanaian dishes.
Plantain
Yam

 Meals by Cameron
Ghanaians like to eat Fufu, Tatale, Gari Foto, Jollof Rice, Shoko and Kentumere.
Fufu, Kentumere and Gari Foto
A Recipe by Usman
Avocado and Groundnut
 
2 avocados ripe but firm
15ml (1 tbsp) lemon juice
30ml (2 tbsp) shelled groundnuts or peanuts
2.5ml (1/2 tsp) paprika
2.5ml (1/2 tsp) cinnamon and cayenne
a pinch of salt
fresh chives, to garnish

Peel the avocados. Cut out the stone and cut into cubes.
Sprinkle with lemon juice and set aside.
Grind the peanuts roughly with a rolling pin or in a grinder for a few seconds.
Mix the peanut and spices well.
Sprinkle over the avocados with finely chopped chives.
Refrigerate until ready to eat.

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