Thematic Unit Plan for second graders

Title of unit
Food-My favourite food
By Suncica Arsic, Suzana Dankovic, Marija
Veljkovic and Jasmina Milosavljevic

Lesson 1
Title of lesson: Im hungry
Language focus:
Key language: fish,cheese,yoghurt,bread,
rice, pasta
Heres some (cheese)
Additional language: (in) the kitchen
Were helping Mum with the shopping
today.
Open the cupboard/fridge.
Put it away.
Objectives
By the end of the lesson, students should be
able to. . .
Identify, read and write the words for six foods
Follow and understand a simple text
Join in with a song
Participate in some whole-class and pair work
games and activities

Learning strategies
Look and listen for the main idea guess the
theme/topic
Guess the meaning of a word from context
Matching (match the picture to what you hear
or read)
Activities
Warm up setting the scene by a poster
Pre-teach the vocabulary with flashcards
Song-Helping Mum-repeating,miming and
pointing
Listen, recognize and say
Practise asking questions with Whats this?
Dialogue in pairs
Listening practice
Word recognition
Writing practice
Reading activity

Materials

Class book Happy House 2

CD 1 Happy House 2
Flashcards and word cards: fish, cheese, yoghurt, bread, rice, pasta
Happy House 2 poster
A photocopy of Teachers Resource Book page 27
Different coloured crayons
Papers for drawings

Warm up
Rub your stomach and say
Im hungry. Ask a child
Are you hungry, (Milan)?
The children try to guess
what the unit is about.
Say Look at Class Book
pages 22 and 23. Ask
Wheres this? Teach in the
kitchen and invite a
volunteer to find a
kitchen on the Happy
House 2 poster.

Presentation

Part 1 Pre-teach the vocabulary

Invite the children to find and name all the food words in
the main picture. Hold up the flashcard for each food
and say the word in English. The children repeat after
you.
Repeat, this time handing each flashcard to a different
child.
Ask the children with flashcards to stand around the edge
of the room. Say Listen and point and say each of the
food words , pointing to the corresponding flashcards as
you do so.
Now ask the children to point without your help.

Presentation

Part 2
Listen and point
Say Listen and point and play Listening 33. The children listen, look at their books and point to foods in the
main picture.
Presenter: Unit 3. Im hungry!
Class Book Listening 33. Listen and point.
Polly:
Lets put the shopping away!
Jack:
OK!...Pooh! Whats this? Oh, its fish!
Polly:
Put it in the fridge, Jack!
Jack:
And heres some cheese...
Daisy:
And some yoghurt...Mmm, yoghurt! Lovely!
Polly:
Heres some bread...and some rice...
Ooh, look! Some pasta. Yum!
Jack:
Quick, put it in the cupboard!
Mum:
Oh, wheres the shopping?
Jack:
Aha! Look in the fridge!
Polly:
And in the cupboard!
Mum:
Oh, thank you!
Part 3
Listen and say
Say Listen and say. Play listening 34. The children point and say the words after the recording.
Presenter: Class Book Listening 34. Listen and say.
Fish. Cheese. Yoghurt. Bread. Rice. Pasta.

Presentation
On the board draw two simple outlines, one of a fridge and one
of a cupboard.
Point to the cupboard and ask Whats this? Then point to the
fridge and say This is a fridge.
Hold up a flashcard, e.g. Cheese, and ask Where do I put the
cheese, in the fridge or in the cupboard? When the children
give the right answer, you say Open the fridge and put it
away. Mime opening the fridge and and stick the flashcard
onto the drawing on the board. Repeat for each of the
flashcards, asking the children to help you with putting the
,foods, away.

Presentation
Say Listen to the song and invite some volunteers to put the flashcards in
the correct order.
Play the song again and invite the children to join in.
Hand out a photocopy of Teachers Resource Book page 27 to each child
and tell them to cut out the picture cards. While they are listening to the
song, they pick up the right card.
Heres some fish and heres some cheese.
Heres some yoghurt. Mmm, yes please!
Were helping Mum with the shopping today.
Open the fridge -and put it away!
Heres some bread and heres some rice.
Heres some pasta. Very nice!
Were helping Mum with the shopping today.
Open the cupboard -and put it away!

Practice-Reading
Place the food flashcards on the board. Place the corresponding word card
next to each picture with the help of the children. Then read the words and
invite the children to repeat after you. Remove the flashcards and invite the
children to read the words. Change the order of the word cards and repeat
the activity.

Fish

Chees
e
Yoghur
t
Bread
Rice
Pasta

Practice-Writing
On the board write six food words omitting
some letters. Invite the children to fill in the
blanks and give them a sweet for each
successful guess.
F_S_
P_ST_
CH_ _SE

_OGH_RT
_ICE
B_EA_

Practice-Application
Activity 1:
Children draw and colour
their favourite food on a
small piece of paper.
Activity 2:
Make six columns on the
board and write food
words at the top of
each.Children put their
drawings into the right
columns on the board.
Then talk about their
favourite food.

Practice -Speaking
Play the game Chinese whispers.
Divide the class into two teams and explain
the rules. Whisper the same word to the last
child in both teams. Now tell them to whisper
it to the next child in his/her line.
When the word reaches the child in front of
the board, that child should pick up the right
card as fast as he/she can.
On the board write scores for each team.
Praise both teams.

Practice-Pairwork activity
Give the children some time to practise the
dialogue in pairs. One child covers his/her
picture card and asks Whats this? Another
child tries to guess by saying Its (yoghurt).
Then they swap the roles.

Evaluation
The teacher will assess his students:
by observing their participation, language use,
language recognition, confidence, and social
skills.
Portfolio assessment homework.

Follow up
Homework:
Children make their own shopping lists by
drawing shopping bags with their favourite
food on the papers and bring them to school
for the next class.

Thank you for your attention