Lesson Plan

English Level: Elementary

Topic: Shopping and Food

Objectives:

By the end of this session, students should be able to

-talk about shopping and food.
-talk about preferences and give reasons.
-produce sentences using countable and uncountable nouns.
- write sentences about the food they buy every week and what do they eat
every meal.
Instructional Sequence:
Stage/Time
1.Vocabulary
Food
(15 mins.)

2.Reading
Weird fruits &
vegetables
(20 mins..)

Aim

Activities

Prepare Ss to
what they are
going to learn
about food and
grocery
shopping.

-Preview a shopping list for them on the data

show.
-Ask Ss whether they do a shopping list
before they go grocery shopping or not.
-Ask Ss which foods do they always buy
every week.

Introduce the
food
vocabulary

-The teacher sticks on the wall different cards

to classify the food.
-Divide the class to equal groups and give
each group different pictures of
[fruits/vegetables/meat..] and cards of
words .Ss match each word with the right
picture under the right classification.
-After Ss finish the Teacher asks the Ss to
correct together for the other groups. The
teacher guides them when needed.
-The teacher reads through the categories in
the book to check that learners know their
meaning.
The teacher asks Ss to answer the exercise in
the book for further practice about categories.
-The teacher display on the data show
different pictures of strange fruits and
vegetables and ask Ss to guess their names.
The teacher tells Ss they will read an article
about those strange fruit and veg.

Prepare
students for the
reading
passage.
Arouse their
interest and
check their
understanding
about strange
fruit and veg.

-The teacher presents some questions on the

data show.
-Ss scan the article in the book to answer the
questions.
-The teacher corrects their answers.
-The teacher presents another question and
asks Ss to skim the article to discuss it.
-Ss discuss their answers and the teacher
guides them if needed.

Teaching Aids
Pictures/Course Book

Power-Point/ Course Book

3.Vocabulary &
Speaking
(15 mins.)

Learn how to
use
I prefer/I'd
rather
Because/I think

-To elicit the preferences expressions the

teacher writes a matching exercise in on the
board and asks Ss to match 1-4 with a-d.
-The teacher elicits the expressions that are
used to talk about preferences and giving
reasons from the sentences on the board.

Cards / Course Book

The teacher explains the lesson and

highlights the use of [which do you prefer
and why?].
Talking about
preferences &
giving reasons
4.Grammar
(30 mins.)

Learn the
difference
between
countable and
uncountable
nouns.
Usage of
[How many/
How much /
a-an /some /
a lot of]

Writing

Learn how to
apply what
they have
learnt about
countable and
uncountable
nouns.

-The teacher gives each student a word card

and encourages Ss to ask any of their
classmates about their preferences using the
words that they have in their cards.
-The teacher corrects their mistakes.
-Ss watch a video about two chefs in a
cooking competition.
-The teacher asks Ss to notice what
ingredients each chef needs to cook his
recipe.
-Write their answers on the board.
-Ask Ss to come to the board to write next to
each ingredient [ a-an/some/a lot of]
-Ask Ss to put instead of these expressions
numbers for example instead of (some) put 2
or 3(if possible).
-Elicit from their answers the countable and
uncountable nouns and the expressions that
match each.
-Ask Ss what question words can be used to
ask about quantity.
-Elicit from Ss' answers [How many /How
much] and elicit from Ss the rule.
-Ss answer the exercise in the book and ask
them to exchange their books with the
Student next to them to peer correct each
other.
The teacher corrects with Ss the exercise
after they finish.
-For further practice the teacher divides Ss to
groups of three and asks each student in a
group to write a sentence about what does
s/he eat in one meal either breakfast ,lunch
or dinner so that by the end each group will
have a paper that includes the 3 meals and
what do they buy every week .
-The teacher asks the Ss of the same group to
correct for each other their grammar or
spelling mistakes before sharing their
answers with their class mates.
-Each group will show to the class their
paper and the class will correct their mistakes
and the teacher guides them if needed.
-For more interaction Ss ask the group's
participants questions using How much/How
many.
-The teacher guides/corrects for them if
needed.

Video / Course Book