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Class organisation
Whole class.
Individual.
Theme
Use with any of the Units of
Work of the primary curriculum.
Aims
Review known vocabulary.
Reinforce word recognition
skills.
Practise speaking, reading and
writing about food and drink.
Develop writing skills to
sentence level.
Materials needed
Pictures of objects already
learned, and matching word
flash cards.
Photocopy the sheet of blank
flash cards on page 191.
Class set of Worksheet F on
page 209 (back to back).
Preparation
Cut up the sheet of blank flash
cards.
Notes
Pupils will come up with words
(in this example, food items)
that have not been introduced
to the class. Have blank A4
sheets and flashcards available
and ask pupils to draw the
food items they are referring
to.
Stage 3 – Towards writing
What is this? – writing sentences
Focus Time
40 minutes.
Type of activity
Matching activity.
Writing practice.
Approach
1. Use picture cards to review words learned in previous classes.
2. Ask pupils what day it is and on a blank sheet of A4 write in large
print, ‘On Monday I eat’. Move a few of the picture cards to the
end of the sentence and say, for example, “On Monday I eat
chicken, vegetables and orange juice”.
3. In turn pupils move pictures to the end of the sentence on the
A4 sheet and say what they have to eat on that day of the week
– see ‘Notes’ below.
4. Spread out the picture cards in one area of the table. In another
area of the table spread out the corresponding word flash cards.
Read each word as it is put on the table. Then point to individual
words and ask, “What is this?” Ask pupils to match the words to
the pictures.
5. Draw attention to the sentence on the A4 sheet. Move word
flash cards to the end of the sentence and say, “On Monday I eat
chicken, vegetables and orange juice”. Ask pupils to do the same.
6. Repeat this around the room three times. On the third time give
each pupil a copy of Worksheet F on page 209. Write the
model sentence (‘On Monday I eat…’) across the first line of the
page. Pupils copy the sentence on the following lines.
7. Use the reverse side in the same way. Write what another pupil
has to eat on the first line (e.g. ‘On Monday Sergiy eats bread,
cheese and milk’.), which becomes the model for further writing
practice.
Extension
Use a scrapbook to develop a class food journal:
Different pages denote different days of the week and
pupils write in what they eat and drink.
Pupils have their own pages and detail what they eat and
drink over the course of the week.
‘Healthy food’ pages – pupils work together to list all the
healthy food they eat.