UNIVERSIDAD LAICA VICENTE ROCAFUERTE

TRAINING TEACHERS IN EFL SEMINAR

“DEVELOPING MEANINGFUL LANGUAGE SKILLS

IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING MODULE”

NAME: Lindsay Garcia Rodriguez

DATE: February 8th /2010

LESSON TITLE: “Food Fun and Celebrations around the World”.

LEVEL: Pre-Intermediate Level

AGE: 12-14

OBJECTIVES:

• Students will be able to identify local celebrations

• Students will describe a traditional food.

• Students will explain How to do a traditional food for a local celebration.

CONTENT:

• Food and Drink

• Cooking

• Celebrations

GRAMMAR:

• Countable and uncountable nouns

• Some / any / a / an

• Irregular plural
MATERIALS:

• Board • Dictionaries

• Text book and CD • Flashcards or recipe magazines

• Markers • Charts of Countable / uncountable

nouns

PROCEDURES:

1. Ask your students: generally and at random

How was your Holiday?

What did they do?

What kind of food did you eat on Holy Friday?

2. Provide some examples like: My Holiday was wonderful, I shared it with my family,
we went to the church and we ate “Fanesca” at my grandmother’s home.

3. Write on the board the typical and/or different food that students will provide in their
responses. E.g:

• Molo • Tuna salad

• Palmito • Cazuela

• Banana cake • Humitas

• Corn cake

4. Ask to these students: What ingredients have this food?

Do you know how it is prepared?

Do you like it? Yes, No Why?

5. Work with the book on page 59. Exercise 19, 20, 21.

6. Make students read the article and then check the answers of exercise 21.

7. Draw this table on the board.

Name of Celebration Date Reason for Activities Food

celebration
 8. Students must complete this table working in groups of 3-4 with the information of the article
and add at least 3 more local celebrations. E.g: All saints’date, carnival, etc.

9. Teach the countable/uncountable nouns, and reinforce some/ any/ a /an and Irregular plurals

10.Each group is going to select one local festival from the chart in the board and make a chart
with the recipe of it corresponding food for the celebration using countable/uncountable
nouns, some/any/a /an and irregular plurals. At this time students can use the photos of the
recipe’s magazine.

11. Each group has to present their recipe to the rest of the class.

ASSESSMENT:

Oral Production:

Students are going to be evaluated in the presentation based on the following aspect:

• Participation

• Use of the language and content learnt

• Fluency

• Creativity

Written production:

Extra class work is going to be scored over 10 points. Spelling, grammar and use of the
structures learnt in this lesson is going to be considered.

EXTRA CLASS WORK

Students have to write individually an original recipe from their families. Inb order to
complete this assignment they have to interview one member of the family and geta clear explanation
of the recipe.

OBSERVATION:

For presenting this lesson must have to be considering the date and the nearest celebration in
order to get a clear idea from the students. E.g.: In December or January is better to consider
Christmas and Turkey with stuffing as its representative food.
 What the teacher did was successful or not?

I consider this lesson because when I was in High school my teacher of English make my
classmates and me to read the article by turns and fill the table on the page, next class we repeat the
countable and uncountable nouns, there were no time for oral production we just practice mechanical
exercises. I think I didn’t learnt countable and uncountable nouns until I learnt them as reinforcement
at university. Now I realized that this book was very useful and we can make different activities
resulting in better language learning. As you can appreciate I consider including more real context to
the lesson because many students learnt it better and they see it more useful in real situations for
example when they want to explain a tourist our national gastronomy.