TCPD 4 – 2009

Teacher: Nora Alvarez

Student: Virginia Pagnutti

UNIT PLAN
Text book: CHIT CHAT 1 -
Period: 5 lessons from 4/11 to 11/11/2009.
Aimed at: 4th grade A - Escuela 26 Van Gelderen
Topic: FOOD

Final task
Students will prepare a menu (My Menu) to be displayed on the board. Then, they will carry
out a pair work, where student A will have to find out the contents of Student B´s menu by
asking Yes/No questions: i.e. “Do you like chips?/B: Yes, I do or No, I don´t.”

OBJECTIVES:

Conceptual objectives: Students will develop their ability and knowledge

o to express and enquire information about food;

o to talk about likes and dislikes;
o to express politeness.

Procedural objectives:

• To ask for information / give information about their favourite food.

• To develop listening skills (listen for global / specific information).
• To develop reading skills (skimming and scanning, guessing meaning of words from
context).
• To develop writing skills (to write about like and dislikes using basic structures).
• To develop speaking skills (to ask and answer questions about likes and dislikes using
basic structures).
• To take part in games.
• To sing a song.
• To revise vocabulary and structures seen in previous units.
• To take part in exchanges and role-playing.
• To apply art techniques on making a craft.

Attitudinal objectives:

• To use L2 to communicate creatively.

• To develop confidence at the moment of using the language.
• To work cooperatively in pairs, groups and teams.
• To show respect for mates and teacher.
• To listen to others.
• To respect turn taking.
• To express their own opinion about their favourite food.
• To take care of materials and resources.
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• To take risks, make mistakes and learn from them.

C O N T E N T S:

a) THEMATIC CONTENT

Meals of the
day

FOOD
Asking and
Foods you
answering
like and don’t Yes/No
like questions

b) LINGUISTIC CONTENT

Functional Exponent of Grammatical Other

Content Functions Content Content

Enquire about what What do you like? “Wh” questions / Specific vocabulary:
food others like. Present simple Food: pizza, salad, chicken,
vegetables, fish, chips, sausages,
potatoes.

Impart information I like ...... Present simple: Specific vocabulary:

about food you like. Positive Food: pizza, salad, chicken,
vegetables, fish, chips, sausages,
potatoes.

Enquire about likes Do you like ....? Present simple: Specific vocabulary:
and dislikes . Interrogative Food: apples, oranges, bananas,
ice-cream, chocolate, yoghurt.

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Answer questions Yes/No Questions: Present simple: Specific vocabulary:

about food that you Yes, I do. Positive and Food: pizza, salad, chicken,
like and dislike. No, I don´t. Negative. vegetables, fish, chips, sausages,
potatoes, apples, oranges,
bananas, ice-cream, chocolate,
yoghurt.

A C T I V I T I E S S O U R C E S

LISTENING AND SPEAKING

For global understanding:

Listen and say who are being interviewed. Classbook U 9 – p. 43 Ex 61

For specific purposes:

Listen and repeat the words. Classbook U 9 – p. 42 Ex 57

Say what the bugs are ordering. Classbook U 9 – p. 42 Ex 58

Listen and tick what the bug likes. Classbook U 9 – p. 42 Ex 59

Vocabulary and structure practice:

Food
Please / Here you are / Thank you.
What do you like?
I like....
Do you like....?
Yes, I do.
No I don´t.

READING

For specific purposes

Read the interview to the Superstars and Classbook U 9 – p. 43 Ex 61

decide which group of food belongs to each of
them: Jet, Nick, Kat and Spike. Photocopy

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WRITING

For specific purposes:

Write sentences about the food that you like. Activity Book U 9 – p. 42 Ex 2

Vocabulary and structure practice:

Do a word search. Photocopy.

Draw/Cut and paste and write the name of the Photocopy.

food that you like in a menu.

ROLEPLAY

Vocabulary and structure practice:

Ask a classmate about the food that he/she

likes.

GAMES:

Write the food words that are said. Flashcards

SONGS Classbook U 9 – p. 43 Ex 60

EVALUATION On going / Informal