Module Three

Lesson Five
LET EVERYDAY BE AN EARTH DAY
Terminal Objective: The pupils will be able to write an e-mail to advise a friend what to
eat to have a healthy body.
Enabling Objectives: The pupils will be able to:
Speak about their eating habits: favourite food...
Classify sentences in a table
Complete a questionnaire
Study a food pyramid
Practise pronunciation at word level
Skills: Speaking, Reading, Writing

Lexis: organic, legumes, sugary, salty, hose

Structure: Compound nouns: Noun+er
Gerund+noun
Noun+gerund
Noun+noun
Functions: Talking about eating habits
Materials: Flash cards, visuals, the books
The Speaking Test: Two pupils will have to enact a dialogue. Pupil A will play the
role of a heavy smoker father. Pupil B will play the role of the son who tries to
convince his father to give up smoking.
Procedure:
I-Warm-up:
Ill start the session by asking the pupils a set of questions:
Whats your favourite food?
Do you like to eat sweets?
Do you often eat sweets?
Is it good to eat sweets?
Whats the impact of eating sweets on our teeth?
It causes tooth decay
Now what do you think of eating fruit and vegetables?
Its good for our health.
Then Ill draw the following table on the board:
Good eating habits
Bad eating habits
*I like fruit very much. So I eat at least 2 *I usually eat sweets because they are
apples a day.
delicious.
*every morning I eat cereals. They
*I never wash fruits before eating them.
provide me with energy.
*I prefer fast food. Every day I eat a
*Every day I drink 2 cups of milk because sandwich.
this helps me to have strong bones.
Ill provide the pupils with flash cards containing sentences about good and bad eating
habits. The pupils will have to classify the sentences in the table.
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 For further practice, the pupils will be asked to study the food pyramid in their S-B
on page 76 then complete the questionnaire on page 77 to see whether their eating
habits are good or bad.

After that they will be asked to work in pairs to do activity 2 in their S-B on page 91.
Grammar:
Ill write the following sentences on the board:
The children destroy the bird-nest.
Noun+noun
She waters the flowers with a watering-can.
Gerund+noun
My father is a bus-driver. Noun+gerund
Ill ask the pupils to concentrate on the underlined words. What are
adjectives, nouns, adverbs...?
They are compound nouns
For further practice the pupils will be asked to do activity 1 in their A-B

Compound
nouns
they? Are they
on page 90.

Pronunciation:
Ill draw the pupils attention to the underlined words already written on the board.
Then, Ill ask a pupil to read both of them. The pupils will have to distinguish the
difference between the two words in terms of pronunciation
Energy: dz
Usually:z
The pupils will be asked to do the pronunciation activity in their A-B on page 92.
II-Production:
Your friend has a bad eating habit. Write him/her an e-mail to tell him/her what he/she
should eat to have a healthy body.

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I like fruit very much. So I eat at least 2 apples a day.

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Every morning I eat cereals. They provide me with energy.

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Every day I drink 2 cups of milk because this helps me to have

strong bones.
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I usually eat sweets because they are delicious.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------I never wash fruits before eating them.
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I prefer fast food. Every day I eat a sandwich.

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