Конспект урока английского языка "Our wasted food"

Lesson Plan

Materials:

Presentation slides

Food Waste Infographic

Lesson objectives

Students will be able to explain why food waste is a problem.

Students will be able do describe what happens to food waste and to write a letter about strategies to reduce food waste.

Students will explore relationship among food, health, society, and the environment.

Warm-up and Objective Discussion

Last lesson we discussed your favorite food. Ask students on the last three days to remember any time they threw out food. What was the food? How much was thrown out? Why did they throw it out? After students respond, share this statistic: Roughly a third of the world’s food is wasted. That’s about 1.3 billion tons a year. Ask: Does this statistic surprise you? Where do you think the food is thrown away? Then a teacher make a list on a board together with students: supermarkets, shops, and households, factories, restaurants. To summarize, display the slide, which shows the percentage of food wasted from different sources. Ask: What kinds of food are wasted most? Do these percentages surprise you? What does this tell you about the problem of food waste?

Instruct and Model

In my teacher talk I will tell my students a personal story about picnic and how what other people did with food waste. Then I will ask my students to share their opinions about it and tell their own stories about this topic.

Firstly I will ask students to imagine they are walking through the woods eating an apple. When they get to the core they toss it into the woods. Ask: What will happen to the apple core? After discussion we will watch a short video about food waste, and in the end of a video there will be a question about ways how we can solve this problem. What are ways we can reduce food waste? I will ask volunteers to share their partner’s responses with the class. Then I will write responses on the board.

Guided practice

Students work in pairs discussing What are two ways we can reduce food waste? I will ask volunteers to share their partner’s responses with the class, writing them on the board. Then I will show a Food Recovery Hierarchy slide and explain some ways to solve this problem from the government opinion (Reducing food waste at the source, Feeding people, animals, Industrial uses, Composting). I will explain each position in details. Then I will ask if students agree with the government opinion or not and why.

Less-Guided Practice

Then I will divide students into groups and assign each group one of the ways to solve wasted food problem in the food recovery hierarchy (they use a slide a Food Recovery Hierarchy). I will ask students to create a proposal for a program to reduce food waste in their assigned area. I will encourage them to think about how this applies to their community (e.g., the “feed hungry people” group could create a plan for their school to donate excess cafeteria food to a local organization for homeless people). As groups share back, I will continue to add their ideas to the list on the board.

Independent Practice

I will ask students to write a journal entry in response to the prompt: What are some individual or collective actions that you and others could take to reduce food waste in your home, school, or community? Optional: If there's enough time, some students can share their responses.

Assessment

Instruct students to choose a local organization (business, local government, school administration, or restaurant) and write a letter to them about the food waste occurring in our country.