Урок для 6-го класу. "Healthy food."

Topic: Healthy food.

The objectives:

      Practical objectives:

 - to activate the use of thematic vocabulary fruit and vegetables, food and drinks

- to train and improve pupils’ listening, speaking, reading and writing skills

• to expand the pupils' knowledge on the topic

       Developing objectives:

- to develop the pupils' ability of using their knowledge on the topic;

- to teach the pupils to work in groups and pairs;

-  to develop pupils' imagination and attention;

- to incorporate creative thinking, team work

      Educative Objectives:

- to foster the pupils to get interested in learning English

Materials to be used: A. Nesvit, English 6, handouts, smartboard, computer

The procedure of the lesson:

1.                  Preliminaries:
   1. Greetings

T: Good morning, pupils! Sit down, please. I’m glad to see you today. How are you? I see you are in a good mood. Am I right?   Let’s start our lesson.

2.    A talk with a pupil on duty

T: Who is on duty today? Tell me, please, who is absent? And what day is it today?

3. Making notes in the register
4. A talk on the topic of a lesson

 T: Do you know what our mood depends on?

Ps: It depends on the weather

                     school marks

                     seasons

                     friends

                     our meals

T: Of course, you are right. All of us like tasty food.

Look at the blackboard. There is a sentence here. But all the words in it are written together. Try to divide these words and read this sentence.

Peoplemusteathealthyfood.

People must eat healthy food

T: This is the motto of our lesson. Now you see that the theme of our today’s lesson is “Food”. At the lesson we’ll speak, watch the film, read the text, work in groups, watch the presentation and do the tasks, do the crossword. At the end of the lesson you must give the answers to the question “Why do the people need healthy food?”

5. Warming-up

T: As for me, I like to eat tasty food. I like chocolate very much and also I like meat, fish, fruit and, of course, vegetables, especially cucumbers and tomatoes. But I don’t like onion and garlic.

T: What are your favourite dishes?

P: My favourite dishes are pizza and varenyky.

T:  What are your favourite drinks?

P: My favourite drinks are cocoa and apple juice.

T: What kind of food do you eat?

P: I eat fruit, vegetables and dairy products every day.

P: I usually eat porridge, meat, soup or borsch.

T: Why must you eat vegetables and fruit?

P: We must eat vegetables and fruit because they have got a lot of vitamins.

T: Are vitamins very important for you?

P: Yes, vitamins are very important for our eyes, skin, bones, hair.

T: Do you always eat healthy food?

P: I think I don’t always eat healthy food. I like pizza, cakes, sweets.

P: As for me, I like hotdogs, hamburgers.

T: What food do you like to eat? What food don’t you like?

P: I like to eat meat, vegetables and fruit but I don’t like dairy products.

T: What food do you think is bad for you?

P: To my mind, ‘fast food’ is bad for me.

T: Well, pupils, I see you eat different food. Some of the food is healthy, the other is unhealthy. 

2.              The main part of the lesson
   1. Watching a film
      • Pre-watching activities

T: Now you have to solve the puzzle about food. I will help you.

1. It’s long and green. It has a lot of water.
2. It’s long and orange. Rabbits like it.
3. It can be with apples, cherries. We eat it for dessert.
4. It can be black or green. We drink it after or between meal.
5. It is white. The children like to drink it.
6. It looks like an umbrella and grows in the forest.
7. It lives in the rivers, seas.
8. One word for apples, pears, lemons.
9. We usually cry cutting it.
10.  We make ketchup out of it.
11.  Food made with milk.

1c	u	c	u	m	B	e	r
			2c	a	R	r	o	t
				3p	I	e
					4T	e	a
				5m	I	l	k
			6m	u	S	h	r	o	o	m	s
		7f	i	s	H
						8F	r	u	i	t	s
						9O	n	i	o	n
					10t	O	m	a	t	o
						11D	a	i	r	y

 

T: So, pupils, we have the word combination ‘British Food’. I think, it would be interesting for you to know what the British people usually eat. Let’s watch a film about British food.

• While-watching activities

http://www.multimedia-english.com/videos/lesson/food-in-britain-this-is-britain-3685

T: While watching the film pay attention to the meals, food, time and place. You can make notes.

• Post-watching activities

T: Now do the tasks on your papers (Fill in the table)

Meals	Time	Food	Place

Now, let’s check.

1. What meals do they have?
2. What food do they eat for breakfast (lunch, dinner)?
3. When do they have breakfast (lunch, dinner)?
4. Where do they have breakfast (lunch, dinner)?

2. Reading

• Pre-reading activities

T:  Let’s read the text about healthy food. Read the title of the text and say what products it is going to be about.

• While-reading activities

T: Read the text and check your ideas. What products do we need to eat to be healthy?

Eat the right food

  People cannot live with out food. Animals, fish, birds and plants cannot live without food either. There are different kinds of food. Some kinds of food like bread, sugar, meat, butter, cheese and rice make you strong and give you energy.

  Meat, fish and milk help you to grow. Vegetables, eggs and cornflakes make your bones and teeth strong. You should eat vegetables and fruit because they have got a lot of vitamins. Vitamins are important for your eyes, skin, bones, hair and for other parts of your body. There are thirteen types of vitamins (A, B, C and so on).

  Eat the right food! Remember the proverb “Good health is above wealth”

• Post-reading activities

T: Agree or disagree with the statements

1. People can live without food.

2. Meat, fish and milk make your bones and teeth strong.

3. Vegetables, eggs and cornflakes help you to grow.

4. Vitamins are important for your eyes, skin, bones, hair and for other parts of your body.

5. There are fourteen types of vitamins (A, B, C and so on)

3. Find the pair

T: There are a lot of proverbs about eating in English language. Let’s revise them.  Find the pair.

1. An apple a day                                      a) with eating
2. Tastes                                                    b) is above wealth
3. After dinner sleep a while,                    c) keeps the doctor away
4. Appetite comes                                      d) but eat to live
5. Don’t live to eat                                     e) differ
6. Good health                                           f)  after supper walk a mile

Answer.

1. An apple a day keeps the doctor away.                                   
2. Tastes differ.                                                 
3. After dinner sleep a while, after supper walk a mile.                
4. Appetite comes with eating.                                
5. Don’t live to eat but eat to live.                              
6. Good health is above wealth.                                

III. Summing up the lesson

1. Home task

T: Open your record-books and write down your home task. You have to do the crossword.

2. Summarizing, evaluating pupils’ achievements

T: You have worked hard at today’s lesson. You were very active. I liked your work, your answers and your marks are…. The lesson is over. Thank you very much. Goodbye.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

F O O D

 

Across	Down
2)  Found in rivers and seas       3)  Sweetens food       5)  Potatoes, carrots, for example       7)  Made from fruit and sugar       9)  Eaten for breakfast      11) Source of proteins, red or white	1)  You can spread it on bread       2)  Often grows on trees       4)  Popular in Italy       6)  Needed for sandwiches       8)  Babies drink a lot of this     10)  Eaten a lot in Asia