High School - Foods Theme

[jellomando]

After two weeks of Chuseok recovery, national and school holidays, and just plain old laziness, I went back to a real lesson.  This one is taken from the JLP Resource book page 170 but is easily found on the internet.

Food Pyramid

• Native Speaker introduces the concept of Korean & North American food. 5 minutes.
• Native Speaker introduces the concept of the Food Pyramid and Healthy nutrition.  5 minutes.
• Students perform Food Pyramid worksheet. 5 minutes.
• Native Speakers goes over Food Pyramid worksheet. 5 minutes.
• Native Speaker performs Where am I activity with the students. 10 minutes.
• Students perform Food Riddle worksheet.  10 minutes.
• Native Speaker performs What am I activity with the students. 10 minutes.

Notes:

• Students knew 80% of the vocabulary used in this lesson.  That means the smart student weren't really that challenged.
• This lesson should be more about food and less about nutritional knowledge since the food pyramid presented is outdated and currently there are numerous theories presenting their own healthy eating measurement system.
• The Meat food group should be changed to Protein and to clarify confusing food, like beans and nuts.

More information about my lessons can be found here.

[Russteacher]

Hello all!!! While I'm still on the theme of food, here's a lesson I did the week after I covered the lesson about eating out.

   This lesson is about reviewing food adjectives, making a survey of snack preferences and making plans over the phone to go eat out somewhere. The full lesson plan is enclosed.

   Before the lesson, print out pages 1, 2 and 5 of the 'snacks.doc', pages 3 and 4 are for display.

   You'll also need to make up cards with the name of a restaurant (TGIF, Outback, BBQ restauarant, etc) as well as a day of the week and a time. These will be used for the dialogue.

   Also get onto google images and download photos of different snacks and in a second file, examples of different restaurants ( TGIF, Outback, Chinese restaurant, Vietnamese restaurant, MacDonalds, KFC, etc).

   Now for the lesson.

1) Warmup - up to 10 mins - small talk such as ask students what they ate for breakfast, lunch, etc.

2) Display different snack photos. Up to 12 mins

3) Ask students what their favorite snack is and handout survey sheet. Students go do the survey. Up to 22 mins

4) Review restaurant foods and do a team race on the board of restaurant foods. Up to 30 mins

5) Display photos of different restaurants.

6) Display dialogue and model for students. Handout 'dialogue' sheets and model with students. Then students do in pairs using name, day and time cards.

I also made up cards with the names of foods scrambled up. I made a team race game out of this, giving a point to the team to give me the first correct answer for the food.

Quite an enjoyable lesson although trusting students to concentrate on teh dialogue amongst themselves didn't always work out. You could even bring in a cellphone to do the modelling with.

Feedback please!!! Russ

[jungnuri2]

International Food lesson was a success. My students loved the pictures and videos. As revision I used the Jeopardy Game.

I changed the lesson slightly for my lower level classes.

1. Introduce the adjectives for taste. Teach students that the adjectives for taste can also be used to describe people.
3. Introduce the adjectives for touch. Explain the difference between crunchy/crispy.
4. Adjectives exercise - to put the adjectives under the correct category.
5. Ask students if they're hungry. Tell them that they won't be hungry after this activity. Tell them I'm going to show them 10 pictures of foods from around the world. Ask them to guess what country these are from.
6. For an advanced class, do the Youtube activity'. Explain the names of insects etc before the video.
7. Divide the class into teams and play the Jeopardy game as revision. Include questions about yourself to make the game interesting. (e.g. The longest I have been with someone is ___ years/months). Girls seem to love random questions that they can't answer. The brain teasers were a huge success too.

[frisbee649]

Hey,

I used the ideas that you had for my classes.  I modified the both the powerpoint and the activities that go along with this.  I also gave the lower kids a list of words which was helpful in answering the food riddle questions.  Here you are! 

I found that many koreans classified tomatoes and pumpkins as vegetables instead of fruits.  Also, they pronounced dairy as diary, pears as peers, and salmon as sal-mon.  They did not realize that the l was silent.  I would definitely review the correct pronunciations of these words.

Matt

[frisbee649]

I thought I uploaded the other activities.  Let me try again!

[frisbee649]

I really like your exotic foods section.  I have modified some things. Basically I am  going to use your adjective idea.  Then we are going to vote on where each exotic food is from.  After wards, I am going to have the students choose three of the exotic foods and choose a taste adjective and texture adjective to describe the exotic foods they have chosen. Obviously this will be pour opinion since they never have tasted these foods.

[CultureShock]

What an excellent lesson! I really like the adjectives, vocabulary, and overall fun of the PPT/lesson. What a great way to introduce key phrases about food.

[dwebsterlfc]

I actually designed this for a teachers class but I can't see why it couldn't be also used for highschool students.


Also as far as the role play goes I've done it so that it is pre chosen what the students will ask for when they place their order. You could easily change it so that the students can make their own choices.

see what you think.

[jblunt1980]

This is my adaption to a ppt that was posted here a while ago. Standing on the shoulder of that giant I think I improved on the original lesson significantly. I used this for my wintercamp class and I think it could be used for the regular semester.

Basically the ppt talks about gross foods. It introduces the topic gives them phrases and words that they might use when discussing exotic foods. Then in the brainstorming section they’re asked to think of weird and strange foods and give their opinion of them. This section – the whole lesson really – requires impromptu interaction by the teacher. “Would you wanna eat that food?” “Wow, do they really eat that.” “Why do you think they eat that?” etc.

After brainstorming then you hand out the attached sheet and quiz them on different gross/strange foods. For each one I asked the same questions from the brainstorming section “Why do you think they eat it?” and “Would you eat it?” that’ll get a conversation going. On certain ones I showed a video.

No particular lesson but I used it as a conversation starter and at the end there is a project where students are asked to think of what foods, out of a narrowed down version of the gross foods, they would eat. In groups they would present their opinion, or act out a conversation in which they eat/discuss eating the weird food they picked.

If you do everything here (all the videos etc) It might span two classes. In which case you can give them the homework sheet I attached. It asks them to come up with 3 Korean dishes that they think Foreigners will think are strange. they present them in the next class while I finish up the slides and put them in groups.

The list of videos are:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4tItqWIKe4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S4EVs0bImA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fcf8WUB33hg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJlO0aifJxA

[v15ben]

This looks good. I think it will appeal to the crazy Middle Schoolers' imaginations!

[Ross84]

This looks good. I think it will appeal to the crazy Middle Schoolers' imaginations!

Agreed. This is awesome, thanks for posting! 

[jblunt1980]

Thanks. Hope you guys find this helpful. I forgot to mention that much of the .ppt is a quiz. You hand out the attached sheet and before discussing a gross food you ask the kids where they think it comes from. They fill in the blanks on the sheet from the choice of countries. You can reveal the answers then or wait till the end, since the second to last slide has the countries and their food listed.

Again, Hope someone finds this helpful!

[CellarDoor]

Ha!  This looks like a lot of fun.  I'm not sure if I'll have a chance to use it or not (I really need to get something resembling a long-term plan for my 1st grade high school students...!), but I'll definitely keep it in mind.  My students responded well to the food slide in my intro presentation to American culture, so I bet gross foods would get a reaction too.

[Inactive Moderator Jason]

oh my god...  Most of that I have seen but that beer.  gawd..nasty.  But good for gross middle schoolers

[thektulu7]

My high school students are relatively low-level, but I think it would not be hard to alter this for the more advanced students.

I just tried it out today to go along thematically (and closely related to the phrases) with Unit 2 of High School Practical English Conversation. But you can use it for almost any food topics.

I've included the lesson plan (minimalist style) that I made for class and the link to the Prezi. The link is an invitation to be a co-editor, so that you can make any changes (for example, you can change my face to yours or use different photos of food - normally I use Creative Commons photos or my own pictures to respect copyright, but a few were pulled quickly from Google Images due to time constraints...I might actually change them later).

I'm not sure if you can save a copy before making changes so everyone has their own copy, or if everyone has to edit this one. If so, it will at least be interesting to track how much this Prezi evolves (ahem, improves).

In class today I wrote the description words on the board myself, but that was a bad idea. That part of the lesson did not last very long at all or get much response. Next class I will switch back to the tried and true method of "Groups make a list together and then write their brainstormed answers on the board under the implication that it's a game or a race, even though I never said so and there most certainly is not a prize." I have indicated that change on the lesson plan.

Not a superb lesson plan by a long shot but I made it myself! WOOT!

http://prezi.com/invitation_to_collaborate/0944ca43051ecf06a6e653677f76bbf790b87bfc/

[shauna0622]

Go thru the slideshow.  The during the slideshow get students to brainstorm foods from other countries.  Then complete the what does it taste like sheet.  As a last activity, have students talk about their favorite foods by describing them. 

1) ingredients/what's in it: ie - My favorite food is made with lettuce, tomato, carrots and dressing.
2) how's it made: baked, fried, cooked, mixed, sliced, layered etc.  ie - It is all mixed together.
3) where is it from: ie - it comes from everywhere. 

[jglide]

Interesting lesson. I'm going to try it today with maybe a few tweaks.

This is my first time using Prezi. I accidently deleted your picture on your prezi (not sure how to get it back) before I realized I could make a copy of the prezi and do my own things without affecting yours.

Thanks for the post!

[Bentley2010]

Thanks! A good lesson with some really good vocabulary!

[jglide]

Just did this lesson with my first class and it was very successful. The lesson was simple and easy enough for my third grade girls who are all at a very low level. One can easily add some more challenging things to this presentation as well. I changed the name and picture to Hyun Bin (cause my students love him) so it can now be used by anyone. Other than that I left the presentation pretty much the same. My students struggled to come up with a list of words on their own so I helped them out by teaching/reviewing words like texture/smell/taste/type and giving some more examples. Here is the link to mine.

http://prezi.com/ouglozjkzqxf/food-lesson-borrowed-from-brian/

I also like the look and feel of prezi in general and will make an effort to use it more. Thanks again OP.

[Kwassa]

Jglide! Great prezi. Thank you!