Theme

Food/animals

Purpose

Vocabulary practise

Target language

Let’s discover the food

Students’ age

9-11

Students’ level of English

Pre intermediate

Type of activity

Listening, reading, writing , oral and TPR activity

Time

18-20 minutes

Materials

Whiteboard, TV screen or projector, audio system, notebooks and pens, pictures of food, cards with the task

Teaching steps

What the teacher says

Time

Before watching activity

(A little warm up using TPR technique)

1)Students should repeat all teacher’s actions twice

2) Teacher prepared some drawings of food) Students should repeat the phrase “to eat pie (cheese, fish)” and to show their emotions whether they like food or not. They might use the phrases : “hmm, tasty”

hmm, yummy

or “ugh, not tasty”

“fie, not yummy”

All phrases should be repeated twice. It is possible to use a random order.

While watching activity

3)Students watch the video for the first time and find out the names of the main animals

Also they should answer one question.

“Why Hippo is greedy?”

4) Students watch the story again and put the sentences in the right order.

It is possible to watch the video twice. (Teacher should prepare the cards with these sentences for everyone)

After watching activity

5) Students should draw a line to match the picture and the word (Teacher should prepare the task for everyone)

6) Students should find the words from the previous exercise in the wordsearch below

(Teacher should prepare the task for everyone)

This task can be used as home task

Let`s stand up for a little warm up. Please, repeat after me all my words and my actions.

To eat (teacher shows how to eat or how to chew)

Hmm, tasty (teacher shows that he/she likes food)

Hmm, yummy (teacher shows that he/she likes food)

Ugh, not tasty (teacher shows that he/she doesn’t like food)

Fie, not yummy (teacher shows that he/she doesn’t like food)

To jump ( teacher jumps)

To shout (teacher shows how to shout)

To pull (teacher shows how to pull)

To run (teacher shows the process of running, standing in one place to avoid disorganization)

To be angry (teacher shows disaffection and anger using gestures and facial expressions)

Tummy ache (teacher shows stomach ache touching his/her own stomach)

To look (teacher shows how to look using his/her palm)

Now, look at the pictures I have prepared for you. You have to look at the pictures and repeat the phrase after me. After that you have to show your emotions

To eat cheese

To eat peas

To eat cake

To eat fish

To eat pie

(To eat a cow)

Now I want you to watch the video for the first time and find out all the animals you might see.

Also I want you to answer the question “Why Hippo is greedy?”

(Greedy means жадный)

Now, I want you to watch the story again and put the phrases in the right order

Now Hippo he was selfish. He ate everybody’s food.

‘Thanks,’ he said, ‘I’ll eat it now. I’ve nothing else to do.’

There was a greedy hippo. He ate everything in sight.

The animals all pulled and pulled, as hard as they were able.

Hippo learned his lesson. It was the end of all their troubles.

They made a pie from fish and soap to make old Hippo sick.

One morning after breakfast, he jumped into the lake.

Now he had a tummy ache as the cooks looked on with pride.

Draw a line to match the picture and the word

Please, find the words from the previous exercise in this wordsearch

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