Stage

Teaching Activity

Learning Activity

Function

Warming up

Have students talk about activities in the spare time.

Talk about activities in the spare time.

To get students warmed up.

Lead-in

Show a picture and play a video clip.

Guess the activity, watch a video clip and find out different foods.

To elicit the topic

       --picnics and food.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

While-task procedures

While-task procedures

Introduce some food items in the video.

Learn some food items in the video.

l         To help students learn the names of some food items.

l         To introduce the way to express the amount of uncountable nouns.

l         To help students learn different kinds of food.

Give some food riddles.

Guess some food riddles. 

Show some pictures and have students choose the different one.

Look at some pictures, choose the different one and tell the reason.

Have the students read the names of food items and make a dialogue.

Read the names of food items and make a dialogue.

To help students consolidate the names of food items and practise the sentence pattern “I’d like to have...”.

Play a recording and have students complete the table.

Listen to a recording and complete the table.

To help students review the new words and guide them to find the target sentence patterns “Shall we...?”and”Let’s...”.

Have students read after the recording.

Read after the recording.

To imitate the pronunciation and intonation.

Have the students work in pairs.

Work in pairs by using “Shall we...?”and”Let’s...” and make replies.

To get students consolidate the ways to make suggestions and to show agreement and disagreement.

Introduce different tastes.

Learn the words about tastes.

To help the students learn the words about different tastes and guide them to tell the reason for preferences for food.

Have students match the pictures with the tastes.

Match the pictures with the tastes and make sentences.

Play a recording and have students complete the sentences.

Listen to a recording and complete the sentences.

To help students consolidate the ways to tell the reason for preferences for food.

Have students read after the recording.

Read after the recording.

To imitate the pronunciation and intonation.

Post-task activities

Guide students to discuss and make a shopping list for a picnic.

Discuss and make a shopping list for a picnic.

To encourage students to use the target sentence patterns and discuss to reach an agreement. 

Assignments

Written work:

1.Copy the new words and phrases.

2.Write at least 60 words on the topic “Planning a picnic”.

Oral work :

1.Read and recite the texts on Page 62,63.

To consolidate what students have learned in class.