Isabella Isabella

Breakfast Time
Elementary A1 level

Description

In this lesson, the students are introduced to and practise ‘Breakfast Time’ vocabulary, namely, the names of food and drinks. They personalise speaking about what they usually have for breakfast in Turkey, guess about some other countries and do listening for detail to check their guesses. At the last stage of the lesson they fill in a breakfast questionnaire, swap the paper with the partner and report their answers to a new partner in order to recycle the words they have learnt.

Materials

?size=16&default=html Breakfast pictures
Abc Breakfast Time HO
Abc Listening Script
Abc Matching HO
Bbf howto 18 Breakfast Questionnaire HO

Main Aims

  • • The students will get familiar and practise vocabulary for ‘Breakfast Time’ by first recognising the food and drinks they know and then matching the words to the pictures

Subsidiary Aims

  • • To provide practice of listening for details and speaking fluency in the context of ‘A typical breakfast in different countries’

Procedure

Lead-in (2-4 minutes) • To generate Ss’ interest in the topic

T asks Ss questions to elicit the topic of the lesson 'Breakfast Time'.

Vocabulary Introduction: Food and Drink (10-12 minutes) • To highlight the meaning, pronunciation and form of the new vocabulary in the context of breakfast time

Ss get the list of food and drink vocabulary and tick the words they know Then they match the words to the pictures T highlights and drills the pronunciation of the words The early finishers write their answers on the board and get T's FB

Semi-controlled speaking practice (18-20 minutes) • To be better able to use the target language. To make Ss aware of their mistakes

Ss ask each other the questions about their breakfast eating habits Ss form new pairs and report the information to their new partner. Ss discuss two more questions: What is a typical breakfast in Turkey? What is a typical breakfast in Japan, Brazil, Spain and England? T monitors and collects errors T puts Ss' mistakes on the w/b and elicits corrections from them

Listening for details (7-9 minutes) • To provide listening practice for details of the four breakfast menus

Ss listen to two cooks at an international language school Ss complete the lists of the four breakfast menues in Japan, Brazil, Spain and England Ss listen to the recording twice Ss compare their answers in pairs Ss check their answers against the listening script Ss match the menus to the countries as a whole class

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