Food Around The World
Elementary level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide gist reading practice using a text about traditional food in the context of food around the world
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide clariification of vocabulary related to the text about food around the world
Procedure (51-60 minutes)
Teacher shows pictures of some kind of traditional food of other nationalties and ask students to talk about them. Eliciting some comments about the topic and get them interested for the text. Then, T writes the first letter of the text's title and ask students what it can be.
T prepares ss for the text by getting them familiar with unknown words. They match the words with the pictures. They will clarify essential vocabulary for the text.
Ss have gist reading activity to find about the countries and tick the correct answers. They are given a reason for gist reading.
Ss read the text for details now to find about which family do what for the activity that is given by the T. Ss check whether they find the required information and they check it within their partners. Then T writes the names of the family to check their answers on the board.
T hands out the comprehension questions about the text and make three groups for each family. Ss answer them as a group and then they swap groups to check each other's answers.