21 | February | 2010 | Dedicated Teachers

In My Lunch Box

February 21, 2010 at 6:23 AM (Food)
Tags: containers, cut and paste, Guided Writing, quantities, quantity, Reading

[ Vocabulary ]

Containers / Quantity

slice | piece | glass | can | bunch

Food

Drinks

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[ Aim ]

Recognize food items and drinks with their respective containers and quantifiers.

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[ Objective ]

01. Reading a list of food items and finding the respective picture from a set of other pictures that have some similar items.

02. Writing about the picture they found in a form of a paragraph without reference to the written list.

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[ Resources ]

A. Six pages with pictures. | B. Two pages of three lists.

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[ Teacher Instructions ]

-:{ Preparations before class }:-

01. Photocopy the six picture pages to cover your students ( 1 page /1 student).

02. Make corresponding copies of the lists.

03. Spread the pictures all over the class; on walls, cabinet, chairs, teacher’s desk.. etc.

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-:{ During the lesson – Reading Stage }:-

01. You may have a short revision of the necessary vocabulary; either by referring to a word-wall or asking students of what they had for breakfast reinforcing the use of quantity words.

02. Introduce the lists of food you prepared; telling them that those are their lunch and they have to find them.

03. Direct their attention to the pictures; they have to find their own picture.

04. Give them a few minutes to read their lists.

05. Let them move afterwords in the class and monitor them making sure they don’t grab any picture based on the first option they have in their list.

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-:{During the lesson – Writing Stage }:-

01. Collect the lists and praise students’ performance.

02. Have a model picture similar to their picture on the board and some writing lines.

03. Elicit how you can start your paragraph describing what is in your lunch box. (You may give the first line if necessary “In my lunch box, there is…“).

04. Have some deliberate punctuation mistakes to demonstrate the editing step. Make the correction with another colour.

05. Give out the writing sheets

06. When the writing is done, students may cut the pictures and glue them on the writing sheet.

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