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miércoles, 16 de mayo de 2012

UNIT 5.ACQUISITION OF WORD KNOWLEDGE. L2 LEXICAL COMPETENCE.


Name of the activity:
MY FAVOURITE FOOD.

Academic  grade:  1st course of Primary Education
Language level: A1
Kind of school: Bilingual School
Subject : Science

Goals:
To learn and name different types of food.
To differenciate between fruit and vegetables.
To identify healthy food.
To identify the main meals of the day.
To review new vocabulary to their background knowledge.
To promote healthy habits at meal times.

Contents.
Food: yogurt, butter, tuna, coffee, ketchup, cheese, apple juice, pasta, chocolate chip cookies, steak, eggs, chicken, bread, potatoes, lettuce, strawberry
Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner.
Key structure:
Do you like…(noun). in the morning?
Do you drink….(noun).in the afternoon?



Context:
Science lesson with 24 students, in which they have to remember vocabulary and repeat it in a proper way and in the correct situation.

Materials:
We will use worksheets illustrating key vocabulary to support pupils´ learning. Moreover, they will  work  key vocabulary and concepts, providing important visual stimulus that aids comprehension and keeps the pupils focus.

Organization:
Students will work the worksheets  in individual way. And at the end they will interact in pairs.

Teacher´s role.
Information provider, guide, monitor, learning facilitator.

Learner role:
Context explorer, builder, speaker.

Cognitive processes.
Competence in linguistic communication.
Competence in knowledge of and interaction with the physical world.
Competence in processing information.
Competence in social skills and citizenship.
Artistic and cultural competence.
Learn to learn.
Autonomy and  personal initiative

*      Activity 1: FOOD PYRAMID
*      The teacher and students will dentify the most important food necessary for our body.
*      The teacher will explain the importance of the food pyramid.
*      With a big poster students will have to identify:
        1.- Bread cereal, rice and pasta.
        2.- Vegetables and fruits.
        3.- Meat, fish, eggs, milk, cheese, yogurt.
        4.- Fats, oils, sweets.

Then the students will make their own food pyramid with a worksheet in which they have to cut out the pieces and assemble them.

*      Timing:  At the beginning they work in big group with the teacher during 10 minutes, and later they work individually for 40 minutes.



Activity 2: Let´s go shopping.
The students will have to write a shopping list, considering why is important to eat some food and some other not. To do this activity they will have a worksheet with different products  they can choose in a supermarket.  They will color, cut and stick in the trolley.
At the end they will defend their option firstly in pairs, and second in front of the big group.
To do this they will say: I eat … in the morning/afternoon/ evening…..

Timing: 50 minutes.




Activity 3: We are in a supermarket.
Pupils of this age group are largely kinaesthetic learners. So they will do a role play in groups of 3 in which they have to buy different things in a supermarket. They will write the dialogues, and at the same time this will help to cement the concepts.


Timing: 50 minutes.



ASSESMENT of activities:
The classroom assessment will be carried out by the observation of the teacher, who will provide always a correction by the students and the teacher and will be focused on an affective teaching.


LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY:

The activity is very easy and very motivating as the students has to combinate English with art to complete the story.



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