Методическая разработка занятия Shopping for food предназначена для студентов 1ого курса техникума по профессии "Повар, кондитер" для активизации и закрепления лексических единиц по теме "Еда".
Class profile:
Age 16-17
Aims:
Main: students will talk about food using conversational formulas “At the shop”.
Subsidiary:
- to improve speaking skills,
- to revise words on topic “Food”;
- to revise “I like/don’t like” structures;
- to revise countable and uncountable nouns;
- to revise quantities “many-much”;
- to improve writing and reading skills.
Assumed language:
Students already know the words on topic “Food”, also they can use conversational formulas “At the shop”.
Anticipated problems:
- Some students may forget the phrases how to do the shopping.
- There can be a problem with time.
Solution for the problems:
- To provide students for necessary exercises to let them remember the phrases.
- If there is a time problem, miss activity №5.
Materials:
Worksheets, OHP, food flashcards
Timetable fit:
This lesson is based on “Spotlight – 5”, Module 8. Students have just studied “Birthday food”. Module 9 is “Shopping for clothes”.
Lesson plan
Stage of the lesson
Activities
Materials
Interaction patterns
Timing
1
Greeting. Introduce the topic of the lesson to students.
T - Ps
2 min
2
Brainstorming. Divide students into two-three groups. In turn teams name the food they know. They should not name the word twice.
Group1 – Group 2 –Group 3
2 min
3
Show students Food presentation and let them say which food was not named in the previous task.
Presentation “Food flashcards big” www.english-4kids.com
Open class
2 min
Ask members of groups to express their likes/dislikes about food using Food presentation.
Presentation “Food flashcards big” www.english-4kids.com
Group work
2 min
4
Ask students to read the text, answer the questions and find the text in the maze.
Worksheets “Food: Likes and Dislikes text maze” www.eslkidsworld.com
Group work
5 min
Ask students to divide food-words from the text into two groups. If students do not understand which groups should be, do the following activity. If they understand what to do, just miss it!
3 min
4*
Eliciting. Take pictures of countable and uncountable food. Begin to divide pictures into two groups and ask students why you do it. As students already know the rule they will remember the class what countables and uncountables are.
Food flashcards
Open class
2 min
5
Categorizing. Ask the groups to tick if the food is countable or not.
Worksheets “Food – Countable and uncountable” www.eslkidsworld.com
Group1 – Group 2 –Group 3
3 min
6
Mingling. Give students the questions and ask them to interview other members of their group. Go around the classroom and listen to your students.
Worksheets “Food quantities” www.eslkidsworld.com
P1 – Ps in each group
3 min
7
Ask students to put the words in the right order to make up a sentence. Make sure that students understand all phrases they have made.
Worksheets “vegetable Shopping Sentence” www.english-4kids.com
Group work
3 min
8
Ask students to write the sentences in the correct order of the dialogue.
Then ask students to act out the dialogue.
Worksheets “Vegetable Shopping Sentences” www.english-4kids.com
Group work
Closed Pairs
3 min
3 min
9
Give out pictures of food to students. Ask them to make up their own dialogue “At the shop”. Go around the classroom and listen to students. Help them if they ask.
Food flashcards
Closed Pairs
5 min
10
Students perform their dialogues in front of the class.
Food flashcards
Open Pairs
5 min
11
Give students home task. Students should write a short story “Shopping for food”. In this story they should write which of their family goes shopping for food, what they usually buy.
2 min
Follow –Up activities
1. At the next lesson students may read their stories to the class.
2. Students think over the problem of healthy food and interview their classmates what healthy food they eat. Then students make a poster what healthy (unhealthy) food is.
P.S.
If you have more time at the lesson, try these worksheets.
- Food Word Spelling Quiz www.english-4kids.com
- Food Sentence Scramble www.english-4kids.com
Also there is a fantastic video on Food. www.englishexercises.org Go to Vocabulary section – Food. Then find “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” (elementary level, age 8-14, author Victoria)
