Activity 1: Warm-up · 10 minutes
What's on your plate?
a) Aims
- Ss activate topic vocabulary about food and drink.
- Ss predict the content of the project from the topic.
b) Content
Ss look at the pictures of a breakfast, lunch and dinner. Ss answer the questions: What do you have for breakfast? When do you usually have lunch? What is a typical dinner in your family? Ss then practise the price question: How much is a bowl of vegetable soup?
c) Expected outcomes
- A word web on the board with at least 10 words grouped under breakfast, lunch, dinner and drinks.
- A predicted project question, for example: 'What do people in our area eat for lunch, and when?'
- Correct answer to the price question: It is thirty thousand dong.
d) Organisation
Teacher's activities
Students' activities
Teacher
Step 1: Task delivering
T shows the pictures and asks: What do people eat in the morning, at noon and in the evening? T writes the topic question on the board: 'What do people in our area eat, and when?'
Students
Ss look at the pictures and answer: 'Rice, noodle soup, bread, fish, tofu.' Ss raise their hands to answer.
Teacher
Step 2: Task performance
T asks Ss to work in pairs for 3 minutes and complete the word web. T walks around and prompts with: 'Is it a meal or a drink?'
Students
Pairs discuss and write words on the word web. Ss use the word 'bowl' and the word 'flour' if they can. Dự kiến: 'We have pho, bread, rice, water.'
Teacher
Step 3: Report and discussion
T invites two pairs to add their words to the board and asks: 'Which words name a mealtime?'
Students
Pairs come to the board and add their words. Dự kiến answer: 'Breakfast, lunch and dinner.'
Teacher
Step 4: Conclusion and assessment
T confirms the key vocabulary (breakfast, lunch, dinner, noodle soup, bowl, flour, omelette, ingredient) and introduces the project: a poster about eating habits. T models the price question and the answer: How much is a bowl of vegetable soup? It is thirty thousand dong.
Students
Ss copy the key words and the price question into their notebooks.