ACTIVITY
Unit 4: Food and Health
5th grade
Name:
Professor:
Subject:
Ivonne Hidalgo
Mº Edith Larenas
Recursos didácticos
Introduction
Description: These activities are related to learning food
vocabulary and associated them in their respective food
groups through both individually and in group activities which
facilitate the capacity of students to develop communicative
skills.
Duration: 90 minutes
Objectives: Students will be able to …
Learn to spell different words and associated them with their
respective images.
Name and categorize foods into the correct food groups.
Select a variety of food items from one food group and
determine whether they are nutritious choices.
Pre-activity
The teacher introduce food vocabulary essential to
understand the basic meaning of the food pyramid. Ex.
Words: chicken, bread, orange, grapes, beans, fish,
apple, peppers, potatoes, eggs, squash, broccoli,
strawberries, corn, mushrooms, etc.
Individual activity.
Activity outcome:
The students will have 4 worksheets of both matching
and spelling activities that help them to internalize the
new vocabulary and will guide him to the next activity.
Time of the activity: 15 – 20 minutes.
Materials: the worksheet will be distributed
by the teacher, pencil.
While activity
The teacher introduce the five main food
groups, those are: Grain, fruits and vegetables,
dairy, meat and proteins, and fats, oils and
sweets.
The teacher opens a class discussion on eating
habits.
Examples of questions:
• What are your favorite foods?
• Which of these five types of foods should be
eaten less and why?
This activity will help the teacher to keep
students' attention and to know if they're
understanding the new terms
Group activity: no more than 3 students per group.
Time of the activity: 35 minutes.
Activity Synopsis:
A fun game of Bingo provides students practice the names
and food categories into the Five Food Groups.
Activity Outcome:
Students will be able to:
Name and categorize foods into the correct food groups
Materials and Advance Preparation:
• Bingo card - 1 per student
• Food Models that will be brought by the
teacher
• A bag or large basket
• Place Food Models in bag or basket
• Pencils
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What To Do
Distribute one Bingo Card per student.
Randomly select a Food Model from the bag or basket.
Ask students to identify the food.
Have participants write the name of the food in one of the
squares for that food group on their cards. For example, if
an apple is shown, students write ‘apple' in one of the
Fruits Group squares. Inventive spelling is acceptable.
Note: The food group icon on the back of the food model
indicates
to
which
food
group
it
belongs.
• The first player to fill five squares horizontally, vertically or
diagonally wins.
• As a check, have the winner read off the name in the
winning food/food group squares.
Post-activity
Group activity: no more than 3 students per
group.
Time of the activity: 35 minutes.
Activity: Guess – who
In relation to the vocabulary learn in this class
each student group could select the most
unusual fruit, vegetable, meat or some food of
the five main groups from their list of vocabulary
and perform a “Guess what I am? Style
presentation with question and participation
from the class.
After they have thought their food and their
main characteristics to describe, one
representative of each group will have to
present in front of the class and all the
students will play the game.
CONCLUSION
At the end of class students will be able to
recognize different types of food and place
them in their respective food group.
Through these activities the students were
able to put into practice their knowledge and
to internalize the information in a positive
way.
Sources
• http://esl.about.com/library/vocabulary/blwordgroups
_food.htm
• http://school.fueluptoplay60.com/tools/nutritioneducation/view.php?id=24278479
• http://englishforeveryone.org/PDFs/Beginning%20Mat
ching%20-%20Food.pdf
• http://englishforeveryone.org/PDFs/spelling%20by%20
picture%20-%20food%20part%201.pdf
• http://www.readyed.com.au/healthy/the_food_groups
.htm
• http://abcteach.com/directory/powerpoint/powerpoin
t_presentations_with_audio/