Materials
Main Aims
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Students practice listening and reflect on unusual ways of using food in the foodscape design.
Subsidiary Aims
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Learn several food idioms through a series of written and oral exercises and help learners to encounter and understand the workings of natural human language
Procedure (45-59 minutes)
Starting with some photos presenting different kinds of food and students will try to guess what they are, using some expressions for speculating. Then, they look at a list of short tasks related to food and have to come up with as many answers to each of them as possible in only one minute. After they finish this task, they will brainstorm ways of using food other than eating. Students look at a photo of a foodscape and think of three pieces of information they’d like to learn from a video they’re about to watch.
In this stage, will introduce the topic of the lesson and students will watch the video for the first time and check how many questions they managed to answer.
Individually, students look at a list of four foods, watch the first part of the video again and write what role these foods play in the artist’s design.
Eliciting from the student what each idiom mean in addition to modelling and drilling.
Starting the following matching activity with splitting students into groups. They look at nine food idioms and match them with their meanings. Then, they analyze the gapped sentences and complete them with a suitable idiom from the previous task. After that, answers will be checked in groups.
They move on to listening for details and listen to the second part of the video trying to answer seven questions about the food artist. After that, they get engaged in a discussion and reflect on the video.
Students work in pairs and each of them has a set of sentences and reads them one by one. The other student needs to reply using at least one idiom from the lesson.