Activity 1: Warm-up · 5 minutes
Thinking about traditional food
a) Aims
Ss activate prior knowledge about food and drink and get ready to read a text about a traditional Vietnamese dish.
b) Content
T shows a picture of a bowl of phở and asks: What is this dish? Do you like it? What do you usually eat for breakfast? Ss answer in pairs, then with the whole class.
c) Expected outcomes
Ss name the dish (phở) and share one personal opinion, for example: I like phở. I eat noodles for breakfast. Ss are ready for the topic of the lesson: Food and drink.
d) Organisation
Teacher's activities
Students' activities
Teacher
Step 1: Task delivering
T shows the picture of phở on the screen and asks: What is this dish? Do you like it?
Students
Ss look at the picture and listen to the question. They think about the answer for 30 seconds.
Teacher
Step 2: Task performance
T asks Ss to talk in pairs: What do you usually eat for breakfast? Is there a traditional dish in your family? T walks around and listens.
Students
Ss talk in pairs, for example: I usually eat bread and milk. My family often eats noodles on Sunday.
Teacher
Step 3: Report and discussion
T invites 2–3 pairs to share their answers with the class and writes key words on the board (noodles, breakfast, traditional).
Students
Some Ss report their partners' answers, for example: My partner likes phở because it is delicious.
Teacher
Step 4: Conclusion and assessment
T says: Today we will read about how a traditional Vietnamese food is prepared. T writes the title Food and drink on the board and reads the lesson objective.
Students
Ss copy the title and the objective into their notebooks.