Unit 8 Shopping for food

Unit 8 Shopping for food The 1st Period Main points of teaching: a. Asking Wh-quesionts b. Using the indefinite pronouns ‘some’ and ‘any’ c. Using the conjunctions ‘and’ and ‘but’ d. Using countable and uncountable nouns Difficult points of teaching: Using the conjunctions ‘and’ and ‘but’ Teaching aids: Cassette player, word cards and picture cards Teaching steps: I. Revision Use real objects to revise the countable and uncountable nouns. Ask the pupils Do you have any English books? Get the pupils to answer it. II. Teach PB A Bring in plastic food items or flashcards made from the pictures of the food items. (Books closed.) Ask the pupils Where does your family buy food? Teach the names of the food items. Display them and then stand away from them. Ask a pupil to help. Say I want some… Tell the pupil to bring the teacher the food item. Repeat with other food items and different pupils. Replace all the food items and ask another pupil to help again. This time ask for two items at a time. Say I want some … and … Tell the pupils we do not need to repeat the word some after and. Write the sentence on the board. Repeat with other food items and different pupils. Repeat the food items once more. Ask a pupils What do you want? Write the question on the board above the sentence I want some … and … Get the pupils to answer with food items. Give them the food items and ask Do you want any…? Write the question on the board. Point to other food items and ask again. Play the Pupil’s Book Cassette and point to the speech bubbles. Ask the pupils to repeat after the cassette. III. Ex. (Books open.) Remind the pupils that the adult is Pat’s mother and tell them Pat is helping her mother. Ask who helps their own mother with the shopping. Revise the words pear, apple and banana by asking what’s in Pat’s trolley. Read the conversation between Pat and her mother. Ask the pupils to repeat the conversation after the teacher. Tell the pupils to work in pairs and to rope-play Pat and her mother, asking and answering about the other food items they can see. IV. Summing-up and for homework Revise the lesson. Copy the new words of this unit. Words on the board: (Omitted.) Unit 8 Shopping for food The 2nd Period I. Revision Pupils revise PB A. Get pupils to act out the dialogue of PB A. II. Teach PB B1, B2 and B3 Bring in a picture of a fridge or draw a simple picture of one on the board. Prepare some simple shopping lists for the pupils to use for practice in step 5. (Books closed.) Point to the fridge and ask the pupils Is it hot or cold inside a fridge? Revise the word cupboard. Draw some of the food items in the fridge, e.g. milk, orange juice, tofu, meat, chicken. Draw some things that can be stored in a cupboard e.g. rice, coffee and tea. Ask the pupils to tell the names of the foods. Label the drawings as they revise them. Then rub off the labels. Tell the pupils that the teacher is going shopping. Ask the pupils to come out and point at the app ... ...