martes, 21 de diciembre de 2021

What´s on the menu?


DU Title: What´s on the menu? 

Subject: Natural Science Course/Level: 3rd grade of primary education


Observations: in order to take into account previous knowledge, After having studied vocabulary related to the food and the likes and dislikes.

The topic area of this didactic unit is the menu we can find in a restaurant the world. Presenting the food pyramid and being able to understand that we can find healthy and unhealthy food.

 

1. Learning outcomes / Evaluation criteria

To recognize vocabulary and structures related to the menu.

To associate the different food with the food pyramid.

To locate different food on the food pyramid.

To explain the food pyramid.

To get general and specific information from a text

To create a complete healthy menu

To learn about healthy habits

 

2. Subject Content

 

·         Food pyramid

·         Food habits

·         Healthy and unhealthy routines.

·         CLIL: Natural and Social Science, English

 

3. Language Content / Communication

Nouns:

Fruits: banana, apple, strawberries, oranges,

Vegetables: carrot, lettuce, broccoli, onion, pumpkin, cucumber, tomato, mushroom

Meat: Lamb, chicken, pig

Fish: tuna, salmon,

Food: Chocolate, salad, spaghetti, tuna, ham, jam, Pasta, hamburger, pizza, soft drinks, biscuits, cereals, cake.

 

Proteins, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals

 

Verbs: to be, to contain, to provide, to eat.

Adverbs: always, sometimes, never, once/twice a week, once/twice a month.

 

Structures

 

•       Grammar contents:

Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency (CALPS).

present simple:

(meat)… contains (proteins)/ (meat)… provides (proteins)

(chocolate)…. Is healthy/unhealthy

 (meat)… is at the beginning / in the meddle/on the top of the pyramid

 

When do you eat….?/when does (s)he eat…?

I eat/(s)he eats (fish)… once a week,  twice a week, once a month, twice a month, everyday, always

 

•       Classroom management:

Basic interpersonal Communication Skills BICS: Classroom language

"hello!", "Good morning", "How are you?", "can you spell this word?", "how do you say… in English?", "can I sharpen my pencil?", "please", "Thank you", "can I go to the toilet?", "can I pull up/down blinds?", "can I switch on/off the lights?", "can I do this exercise on the board?", "can you help me please? "can you repeat?" "write the name", "match the column a and the column b)". "What do you think?", "why do you think it?",  "Come on", "Try to do it", "think about it", and so on.

 

Discourse type

-Speech communication resources (explaining, comparing, arguing, agreeing)

 

Language Skills

The four basic skills: Listening, speaking, reading and writing

 

4. Contextual (cultural) elements

 

The school is located in a rural town in the West of Extremadura. It has not many facilities to access to the English language outside the classroom. The socioeconomic level of the families is medium.

We are going to compare the menu of the different restaurants

 

5. Cognitive (thinking) processes

According to the Bloom´s Taxonomy,  Low Order Thinking Skills (LOTS) and High Order Thinking Skills (HOTS):

LOTS:

·         Remembering: Listening, repeating, locating, finding

·         Understanding: associating, expressing

·         Applying: choosing, presenting, interviering

 

HOTS:

·         Analyzing: correlating, calculating, advertising, questioning

·         Evaluating: testing,

·         Creating: writing, podcasting, composing, programming

 

https://www.teachthought.com/learning/what-is-blooms-taxonomy/

 

6a. Task/s

Theoretical sessions: working the different parts and the different aliments, Identifying the different parts of the food pyramid, Identifying the different food in each part

 

Practical sessions: asking about habits, Asking about healthy and unhealthy food habits.

creating a huge food pyramid, explaining it to the rest of the classes of the school, creating a giant food pyramid and explaining it.

 

6b. Sessions and Activities

 

First session:

·         Brainstorming about food

·         Expressing likes and dislikes while we show different flashcards by using https://www.flickr.com/search/?text=food

 

·         Food pyramid video explanation

·         Prelistening: what can you see in the picture? Displaying a picture on the digital whiteboard screen shot of the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KbA8pFW3tg

·         Whilelistening: listen and repeat, stopping. Asking different questions about the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KbA8pFW3tg


·         Postlistening:  complete a food pyramid on the digital whiteboard by using Live worksheet https://es.liveworksheets.com/jk2099462fn

 

Second session:

 

·         Food habits genially: https://view.genial.ly/5e8b43b18b8ee90e1eb29ac0/presentation-food-vocabulary-2019-confinement

·         Identifying healthy and unhealthy habits by asking questions to their classmates

 

·         Creating a group food pyramid using realiasupermarket offer catalogues

·         Creating a Huge food pyramid and explaining it

 

Third session:

·         review through different questions

·         Explanation of the huge food pyramid

·         kahoot: "what do you know about the food pyramid?" https://create.kahoot.it/details/23d6c26d-7322-48cc-b650-a22fda11cb30

 

Fourth session:

·         Presenting a healthy menú:

Utilización de Canva para la maquetación de un menú: ejemplo para los alumnos https://www.canva.com/design/DAEzFxI9YXo/J2e-EwKjM8QO1FYIiVpDvA/edit?layoutQuery=healthy+menu

 

·         Analysing different restaurant menu. Realia: Utilizamos los menús diarios de los restaurantes del pueblo

·         Completing a menu which is incomplete

 

Fifth session:

·         Creating a healthy menu

·         Explaining the different healthy menus 

·         co-evaluation activity: while the different groups are explaining the menus

 

Sixth session:

·         Radio interview about healthy or unhealthy habits

·         Explaining the best healthy menu on the school radio

·         Self-assessment: rubric

 

7. Methodology

Communitive approach

Task based approach

Learner centred approach

Clil methodology

Cooperative learning

 

Organization and class distribution / timing

 

Cooperative groups: heterogenous groups of 4 students

The didactic unit will be developed in the second term, and it consists of 5 sessions.

 

Resources / Materials

Interactive whiteboard,

Blackboard

Interactive worksheet

flashcards

Food pyramid video

Food pyramid template

A text model: a healthy menu

Incomplete menu

Realia: Supermarket Offer catalogues,

Realia: restaurant menu

radio

 

Key Competences

Linguistic competence

Digital competence

Social and civic competence

Learning to learn

 

8. Evaluation (criteria and instruments)

Evaluation criteria:

 

To be able to explain the food pyramid and the food which is in each part

To be able to answer different questions about the food pyramid

To be able to create and explain the healthy menu

 

Instruments: Direct observation, teacher´s notebook and evaluation activities.

 

Evaluating activities: Oral and written activities

 

Oral activities:

·         Exposition of the group healthy menu

·         Explanation of the food pyramid

Written activities:

·         Coevaluation while the different group expose their healthy menu

·         Kahoot activity

·         Self-assessment: rubric


Lucía Fernández Rodríguez

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