LESSON PLAN

Level: Intermediate L1

Class size:

Time of lesson: 50 minutes

Topic: “Food and Festivities”

Textbook: “Click on 2”- Express Publishing

Approach: communicative

Type of lesson: acquisition of knowledge; teaching vocabulary

Lesson Aims:

- check and improve vocabulary

- check and improve pronunciation
- practice reading for specific information
- develop a vocabulary and ideas for writing and talking
about food and festivities

Skills: listening, reading, writing and speaking.

Methods: conversation; explanation; dialogue.

Learning activity: individual work, pair work.

 Anticipated problems:
 Students might find it difficult to explain the meaning of some words
or phrases in their own words;
 They might find difficulty in identifying the correct explanation for
some words;
 Students might feel nervous and find difficulty in playing out
dialogues or expressing their point of view.
Materials: worksheets, notebooks, blackboard.

Interactions: Whole Class, individual work, pair work.

Activity 1: Lead- in

Procedure: T asks Ss to open their textbooks at page 54. T shows Ss a

set of pictures related to food. Then T asks Ss to number the things in
the given list.
Interaction: T-Ss; Ss-T
Timing: 5’

Activity 2: Which of these are: -vegetables/fruit/drinks/junk

food/pulses/?

Procedure: T asks Ss to sort in groups the things that belong to

vegetables, fruit, drinks, junk food or pulses. T writes down on the
blackboard the words from each category and also adds translation
where necessary.
Interaction: T-Ss; Ss-Ss
Timing: 10’
Activity 3: What is your favourite dish?

Procedure: T asks Ss to work in pairs and act out dialogues related to

food and drinks.
T asks Ss to look at the pictures from Exercise 1 and decide what a
healthy diet should consist of.
Interaction : Ss-Ss/ T-Ss
Timing: 10’

Activity 4: Listening for specific information

Procedure: T asks Ss to listen to three dialogues and tick the

food/drinks mentioned in each. T checks their answers.
Interaction: T-Ss; Ss-T
Timing: 5’

Activity 5: Reading for getting details (skimming and scanning a

text)
Procedure: T asks Ss to role play three dialogues and say where each
one takes place, then answer the questions related to them. T explains Ss
the words in bold and write the new vocabulary on the blackboard. Ss
copy them in their notebooks.
Interaction: Ss-Ss; T-Ss
Timing: 10’

Activity 6: The food pyramid and home assignment

Procedure: T asks Ss to look at the food pyramid, then underline the

odd word out in each of the given groups. They also have to make
sentences about each group.
Ex: Butter, oil and chocolate contain a lot of fat.
T checks their answers and gives Ss Exercise 7/56 as homework
assignment.
Interaction: Ss-Ss; T-Ss
Timing: 10’