NOSTT/Projects/Forms 1-3/Spanish/La Comida

LESSON 1: FOOD AND DRINK

 * Target Audience: Form 2


 * Duration of Lesson: 90 minutes


 * INPUT


 * Pre-Knowledge & Skills Required
 * Radical-changing verbs
 * Constructions with gustar and preferir (ie)
 * Mealtimes
 * Instructional Objectives
 * Lesson Classification
 * Resources
 * pictures of Latin American/Spanish meals and dishes
 * PCs, data-handling and text-manipulation software
 * access to the Internet


 * PROCESS


 * Teacher Strategy: Instructional Procedures & Activities -
 * Revise mealtimes and items of food and drink from unit 3 ‘El horario’.
 * Teach the names of various items of food and drink, initially as single nouns and then incorporated into sentences, eg to answer the questions ¿Te gusta la fruta? ¿Te gustan las manzanas? ¿Qué prefieres comer? Try to bring in real items to support vocabulary recognition and learning.
 * Make a list of as many words that are similar to English as possible. Then list words that are more difficult to learn. Categorise into masculine, feminine, fruits, vegetables, fast food, etc.
 * Revise querer (ie) and check if pupils can remember how to form radical-changing verbs.
 * Student Activities
 * name a variety of food items matched to contexts
 * learn and practise techniques for memorising


 * OUTPUT


 * Follow-up Activities
 * Ensure that pupils have opportunities to use them in sentences as soon as possible.
 * There is potential for much vocabulary here: fruit, vegetables, ice-cream flavours. Provide opportunities for this type of activity to take place more than once. Emphasise the use of language rather than just acquisition of new vocabulary and break it down into realistic amounts.