Tired of using the coursebook all the time? I am sure that we've all been there and that we always try to find new ideas to present new structures to our students.
Sometimes they get it, sometimes they don't. Sometimes you need more and more practise. What a better way to do so in a more "experimental" way?
With this lesson plan, your students (elementary level or lower) can practise food vocabulary, colours, countries, present simple, present continuous, compare adjectives, express likes and dislikes and also learn about other cultures.
- Ask them what they have for breakfast, brainstorm vocabulary about food, utensils, quantities (a lot, a little, a few, many) on the board
- Ask them to draw / paint their favourite breakfast. When they are done, they show it to the student next to them and he / she can guess what it is.
- Ask them to present their drawing to class and describe it: e.g. "I like big pancakes with red cherry jam"
- Show them the video with children tasting breakfast from all over the world.
- Stop it when the food changes. Ask them if they know the names of the differents foods, explain to them how it tastes.
- In higher levels you can use Present Perfect (Have you ever tasted / tried coffee?)
- Experiment with tastes. Prepare 2 or 3 things that are eaten in other countries (you have to ask parents first in case of allergies) and have the children try them. Ask them "how do they taste?", "what colour are they?", "Do you like it?"
- Have them compare the foreign foods with the Greek ones.
- You can also prepare a Power Point presentation describing and comparing the food from the differents countries (if students don't know how to do it, you can help them in class with the technical stuff)
- This presentation can be shown to the parents for example at the end of the year (along with some food)
For more pictures and information about breakfast around the world:
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