Topic: Ukrainian cuisine

Objectives: students will be able: - to learn new vocabulary needed in communication activities that involve free speech and writing;- to develop small- group interaction skills and responsibility for learning and production; - to express personal feelings and thoughts;- to take part in common conversational exchange on the topic;- to share their opinions with the other students;

Age Group: 11-14 years old students Level A1, A2 Timing: 60 minutes Materials: 1) copies of handouts for lexical games

2) set of cards with the photos/pictures/words of various food

3) blank A4 paper, pens/markers

4) notebooks or lined paper (for student’s notes)

5) CD-player

6) chalkboard

Procedure:

IntroductionBrainstorming

Show Ss the proverb (Choose one from the list )and ask them to explain its meaning. 1. All bread is not baked in one oven. 2. No bees, no honey; no work, no money. 3. Don’t quarrel with your bread and butter. 4. When wine is in, wit is out. 5. The cat shuts its eyes when stealing cream. 6. All sugar and honey. 7. An apple a day keeps the doctor away. 8. Honey is sweet but the bee stings. 9. Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.

10. Don’t put new wine into old bottles. 11. Half a loaf is better than no bread. 12. The nearer the bone, the sweeter the flesh. 13. The proof of the pudding is in the eating. 14. There are lees to every wine. 15. To know on which side one’s bread is buttered.

Present the topic of the lesson (the game “Hangman”). The Ss are to guess the name of the topic.How to play: The teacher marks out blanks (short lines) for each letter of each word, seperates words with either a slash, a fairly wide gap. Ss name the letters of the alphabet one by one. If the letter is contained in the word, the teacher (the executioner) writes it in its correct place and the Ss take another turn. If the letter isn’t in the word then add a body part to the gallows (head, body, left arm, right arm, left leg, right leg). The players will continue guessing letters until they can either solve the word (or a phrase) or all six body parts are on the gallows.To win: The executioner wins if the full body is hanging from the gallows. The guessers win if they guess the word before the person is hung.

Lead a warm up /discussion with Ss, focusing on the following questions:1)What foods/drinks do you have most often in your household? 2)What is your favourite meal/drink (least favourite)? When/how often do you eat/drink it?3)What Ukrainian food/drinks do you know?(holubtsi/cabbage rolls, pyrohy/dumplings, mlyntsi/pancakes, kutia, kasha, borshch, varenyky, chicken Kyiv, uzvar, compote)4) Who prepares meals in your family?5) What meal can you cook ?

Presenting Vocabulary:

Show flashcards and elicit definitions(HO1) Match the words and the pictures (Divide the class into 2 teams. Tha first

team gets HO2 and the second one gets HO3)

Practising new vocabularyPlay the lexical game “Anagrams” (Make up the words given in jumbled letters about food. Prepare the task for 2 teams. Draw each square for each letter. The

quickest team wins.) Example: 1st team: adrbe (bread), efofce (coffee), crubcume (cucumber),

prpepe (pepper), tcaror (carrot), iprutn (turnip), ytuhurg (yoghurt)

2nd team: klim (milk), edemanol (lemonade), rahburegm (hamburger), eeecsh (cheese), nooin (onion), nabe (beam), imraenagr (margarine)

Play the game “Funny feelers”/”Touch and Guess” (Prepare the basket with different kinds of food and drinks. Ss take smth out and guess what it is, asking the questions: Is it a …? The team answers: Yes it is. No it isn’t. It is important not to look at the object.)

Lexical game “Continue” (HO4). You may play “Ball throwing game” (The teacher throws the ball to a pupil who has to say a word. The learner throws the ball to someone else who has to add one more word. This continues until everyone has had a chance to say a word. You can also do this by asking learners to make a question and then throw the ball for someone else to answer it). You can use the game “Chain drill” (Each Ss in turn contributes a word referring to the category, repeating what the previous person said then adding his own word so that build up a long list together).

Game “Divide food products into categories” (HO5) Game “Odd one out”. (HO6) Ask the Ss to find the odd one out and

explain why it doesn’t belong to that category.

Listening Activity

Dialogue “Ordering food in a café” (www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglishteens) (Appendix HO 7)Individual work1. Pre-listening exercise

2. While-listening exercise

3. Post-listening exercise

Production Speaking Activity (Pair work)

Team game “Optimists. Pessimists” (Each team makes up the list of food it likes/dislikes. Using the adjectives each team acts out similar dialogues.

The dialogue is written on the board.)Example: A: Have you ever tried prawn and rice?

B: No, I haven’t ./Yes, I have. It was/is tasty. A: Do you like (love, adore)…? B: I dislike (don’t like, hate)… . It’s yuck. Expressing tastes

Optimists Pessimists

great, delicious, excellent, tasty, yummy, juicy, mouth-watering, fantastic, healthy.

disgusting, awful, bitter, heavy, too hot and spicy, too rich/sweet, yuck, really, bad, unhealthy, terrible, unpleasant.

Role-play “Customer. Waiter” (Ask 2 st-s to imagine they are visiting a restaurant or a café. Ask them to be the customer and the waiter. Ss make up their own dialogue, using the menu) (HO 8)

Reading Activity (Group work)

Propose your Ss to look at the disordered instructions of the famous recipe “Pancakes” (HO9) Ask the learners to put the sentences in the correct order.

Homework task (Group work) Suggest your Ss to create a project “My favourite food. Its recipe” , using

the verbs from the table, that is on the board. They may use (HO10) as an example.

to cook to fry to cutto serve to stew to sliceto bake to mix to chopto put to stir to minceto add to steam to grateto pour to grill to peelto boil to season to skinto enjoy to oil to cover

Additional material

Flashcards (HO1)Cabbage rolls, pancakes, dumplings, chicken Kyiv, garlic, broth, noodle soup, duck, salad, apple pie, cookies, omelet, pork chops.

(HO2)

apple, pear, bananas, lemon, orange, peach, pineapple, grapes, (black)currants, plums, cherries, strawberries, raspberry, pomegranate, melon

Answers:1. (Black)currants 2. Pomegranate 3. Bananas 4. Orange 5. Lemon 6. Melon 7. Pear 8. Strawberries 9. Peach 10. Pineapple 11. Raspberry 12. Apple 13. Cherries 14. Plums 15. Grapes

(HO3) potato, mushroom, carrot, onion, cabbage, broccoli, turnip, leek, courgette,

aubergine, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, peas, beans, sweet corn

1. Cauliflower 2. Onion 3. Cabbage 4. Brussels sprouts 5. Beans 6. Courgette 7. Broccoli 8. Potato 9. Mushroom 10. sweet corn 11. Leek 12. Carrot 13. Turnip 14. Aubergine 15. Peas (in a pod).

(HO4)1. Contunue:

Drinks: tea,

• Vegetables: tomatoes, …

• Fruits: apples, …

• Cold food: cheese, …

• Hot food: fish,…

(HO5)2. Divide these food products into 5 categories:

Vegetables fruit drinks junk food sweets

An apple, bananas, ice-cream, broccoli, a burger, carrots, coffee, chips, grapes, lettuce, olives, an onion, chocolate, an orange, orange juice, a peach, milk, a pear, pizza, a strawberry, tea, tomatoes, cake, peppers.

(HO6) 3.Find the odd words.

1) bacon, beef, turkey, pork, lamb

2)carrot, melon, onion, cabbage, lettuce

3) beer, lemonade, tea, sugar, coffee, mineral water, juice

4) grapes, apple, pear, plum, ice-cream

5) butter, milk, cheese, cream, oil, yoghurt.

(HO7) Dialogue “Ordering food in a café” (www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglishteens)

(HO7)

(HO8)

(HO9)

Answers: 6,8,2,10,3,1,7,9,5,4

(HO10)