New lesson plan: Food and beverages

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Food and beverages - Elementary A1 level

Food and beverages
Elementary A1 level

Description

To start with, students will learn essential vocabularies of food and drinks in this lesson. In other words, the teacher clarifies food and beverages vocabularies via pictures and visual materials. In addition, learners will learn not only some verbs such as "like" and "dislike" based on a reading comprehension about meals in Britain, but also do some exercises through the context. Also, the lesson will be followed by a grammar part and countable/ uncountable food types will be taught. Moreover, the teacher will explain common food partitives. Ultimately, the learners will have an opportunity to communicate with each other and play roles through the speaking process.

Materials

Guided discovery

pictures

Roleplay cards

Guided discovery

pictures

Roleplay cards

Main Aims

To provide the clarification of food and drinks words. To teach countable and uncountable food items. To illustrate common food partitives.

Subsidiary Aims

To give the learners a chance to communicate with each other through the class.

Procedure (19-30 minutes)

Warmer/Lead-in (3-5 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

_ At first, the teacher attempts to engage Ss to the lesson by visual materials and elicits the topic of the lesson. Then, she writes down these questions on the board "According to the pictures, What would you like to eat?", "What is your favorite food?" and "What is your favorite drink?". _ Ss are supposed to answer the questions in pairs. _ Then, there is a whole class feedback.

Exposure (5-10 minutes) • To provide context for the target language through a text or situation

_The teacher divides Ss into groups and hands out short texts about the meals in Britain. _The students are supposed to read the texts and fill the tables. _ Then, they have to check the answers in pairs. _The teacher checks ICQs and monitors while they are doing the task. _ The teacher writes the answers on the board. _Also, she presents the target verbs: "like" and "dislike" and checks CCQs. _ Finally, they must talk with their classmates and ask him/her if he/she likes food and drinks in the chart. _There is a whole class feedback.

Highlighting (3-5 minutes) • To draw students' attention to the target language

_The teacher sticks the image of countable and uncountable food items on the board or wall. _The learners are supposed to come and see the picture, then the teacher explains the target grammar. _The teachers divides the Ss into teams and covers the image in order to play the game. _The Ss can come and see the picture again in order to memorize the words, then the teacher covers it and they are supposed to write down as many words as they remember. _If they write down more words, they will get the higher score.

Clarification (8-10 minutes) • To clarify the meaning, form and pronunciation of the target language

_The teacher concentrates on food partitives and shows pictures due to explaining how they can count uncountable nouns. _The teacher gives different examples of measurements such as, a jar of, a bar of, a carton of, a tin of, etc. _Then, students have to do an activity to match the parts and label the pictures. _The teacher clarifies the instructions and checks ICQs. _Ss are supposed to fill the blanks and mach them, then they must switch their answer sheets with their classmates in order to correct each other. _The teacher monitors. _At last, they must check the answers, then the teacher show the correct answers on the board. _There is the peer feedback and the delayed feedback.

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