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Prepare your favourite dish

Level: pre-intermediate

Grammar focus: Adverbs of Sequence . ( first,next,then , after that,finally )

Aim: How to describe a process.

Preparation:

  1. Photocopies of food cards ( vegetables ,fruits,drinks etc),which students can cut out.
  2. Paper plates/ dishes,scissors and card paper for drawing and cutting.(can give card papers for students to make them if time permits)
  3. A Mr. Bean Movie with the sandwich making episode will be a great blessing to this lesson. Download the Mr. Bean worksheet here. If you can't lay hands on the video, look at the worksheet and do a similar exercise with another video.
  4. Make copies of the worksheet to hand to students.

Pre-task warmer:

  Hand out movie worksheet to students. Pre-teach the vocabulary listed on the worksheet. Students watch and answer questions. Focus attention on words like, first, next, then, finally.

  Task:

Tell students they are going to describe in detail how to cook their favourite food. It will be a good idea to split the class into groups. The groups should decide on a dish they all like. To motivate them promise some kind of reward for the best group.

  Write these questions on the board.

  • What food items are you going to need?
  • What utensils will you be using?
  • What are you going to do first?
  • What will you do next?
  • How long will each step take?
  • What do you have to do finally?

•  Planning:

  • Give each group a few minutes to brainstorm and assign roles to various group members.
  • Go round giving support where necessary. Surely students will be asking lots of questions at this time. Go around and provide more guidance to students.
  • Students must jot down important points on a rough work paper during this time.
  • They ask for what   they will need and it is time for teachers to also hand out the food cards, scissors and others

•  Executing task:   Using the points jotted down students begin to write a detailed description on the process.

  Reporting to the class:

   A spokesperson or group leader reports back to the class. During this time students listen carefully to every group and later decide which one is best.

Post task:

    Make a class magazine and put complete projects into them. At the end of the course you might make copies for students of put them in a class or school library.

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