Author Topic: High School - Food and Reastaurant Theme (Read 37965 times)

jellomando · « **on:** October 15, 2007, 12:05:02 PM »

After two weeks of Chuseok recovery, national and school holidays, and just plain old laziness, I went back to a real lesson. This one is taken from the JLP Resource book page 170 but is easily found on the internet.

Food Pyramid

Native Speaker introduces the concept of Korean & North American food. 5 minutes.
Native Speaker introduces the concept of the Food Pyramid and Healthy nutrition. 5 minutes.
Students perform Food Pyramid worksheet. 5 minutes.
Native Speakers goes over Food Pyramid worksheet. 5 minutes.
Native Speaker performs Where am I activity with the students. 10 minutes.
Students perform Food Riddle worksheet. 10 minutes.
Native Speaker performs What am I activity with the students. 10 minutes.

Notes:

Students knew 80% of the vocabulary used in this lesson. That means the smart student weren't really that challenged.
This lesson should be more about food and less about nutritional knowledge since the food pyramid presented is outdated and currently there are numerous theories presenting their own healthy eating measurement system.
The Meat food group should be changed to Protein and to clarify confusing food, like beans and nuts.

More information about my lessons can be found here.

Russteacher · « **Reply #1 on:** November 04, 2009, 04:07:07 PM »

Hello all, since I have benefited a lot from your ideas, here's an idea from me when you are covering how to read a menu and ordering food at a restaurant. The full lesson plan for this lesson is attached but I will give you a rough outline of the lesson itself. For this lesson to work, you'll need to have a projector or monitors connected to a computer. If you don't have these, you could get away with using a notebook computer, depending on your class size.

1) Warmup - 10 mins - introduce menu vocab such as appetizer, side dish, main course, dessert, drinks. Get photos from google as examples to show on display.

2) Team Game - up to 15 mins - split class into 3 teams and each member has 2 minutes to write down as many foods as possible. Gets teh students warmed up.

3) Display questions and get students to ask questions to eachother. Up to 20 mins

4) Display food adjectives and go through them with the class. Up to 25 mins

5) Hand out photocopies of the food dialogue and laminated copies of the menu, 2 for each group of 6 students ( My seating arrangement in my language lab is 6 tables seating 6 students each). Model dialogue for the students, then teacher models the waiter and students model beign a customer. Reverse when done.

Hand out 'fake money' to half of the class. They will be customers.

Get the other half of the class to stand up and come over to the tables where the 'customers' are. These students then play being 'waiters' and depending on their level, actually write down and figure out how much the customer should pay. When completed, handover fake money and menus to the other half and 'customer' students reverse roles and play at being 'waiters'. Up to 45 mins

6) For the last 5 minutes, show pictures of cuisines from around the world.

You'll have to tweak this lesson depending on how easy or hard this is for the students. The only ESSENTIAL activities are 1) and 5). The other activities are good for filling out the lesson. Let me know how this goes !!!

Russteacher · « **Reply #2 on:** November 04, 2009, 04:25:52 PM »

Hello all!!! While I'm still on the theme of food, here's a lesson I did the week after I covered the lesson about eating out.

This lesson is about reviewing food adjectives, making a survey of snack preferences and making plans over the phone to go eat out somewhere. The full lesson plan is enclosed.

Before the lesson, print out pages 1, 2 and 5 of the 'snacks.doc', pages 3 and 4 are for display.

You'll also need to make up cards with the name of a restaurant (TGIF, Outback, BBQ restauarant, etc) as well as a day of the week and a time. These will be used for the dialogue.

Also get onto google images and download photos of different snacks and in a second file, examples of different restaurants ( TGIF, Outback, Chinese restaurant, Vietnamese restaurant, MacDonalds, KFC, etc).

Now for the lesson.

1) Warmup - up to 10 mins - small talk such as ask students what they ate for breakfast, lunch, etc.

2) Display different snack photos. Up to 12 mins

3) Ask students what their favorite snack is and handout survey sheet. Students go do the survey. Up to 22 mins

4) Review restaurant foods and do a team race on the board of restaurant foods. Up to 30 mins

5) Display photos of different restaurants.

6) Display dialogue and model for students. Handout 'dialogue' sheets and model with students. Then students do in pairs using name, day and time cards.

I also made up cards with the names of foods scrambled up. I made a team race game out of this, giving a point to the team to give me the first correct answer for the food.

Quite an enjoyable lesson although trusting students to concentrate on teh dialogue amongst themselves didn't always work out. You could even bring in a cellphone to do the modelling with.

Feedback please!!! Russ

shhowse · « **Reply #3 on:** June 08, 2010, 04:21:06 PM »

I created this presentation for High School grade 2 girls, though I'm sure boys would enjoy it as well.

The lesson I conducted (though I will alter it for next time) was as such:
1.introduce a few vocabulary items from the cloze worksheet
2. students complete the cloze worksheet in small groups and then as a class check the answers
3. present the complaint and demand phrases
4. ask for volunteers to come to the front, one at a time, to do a role play with the teacher. The student orders from items from the menu and then chooses a complaint card (same as the images from the presentation). Student makes a correct sentence about the complaint image, and then makes the appropriate demand to recity the situation.
5. homework: Write about restaurants in your hometown. Which is your favorite, which do you not like and why? What are your favorite menu items?

As it is right now, I found that the lesson was jammed packed of too many ideas, so I would suggest breaking it down into two days:
day 1: review/introduction of how to order food and menu vocabulary, followed by a role play of going to a restaurant and ordering and/or have them create their own menus to practice the vocab.
day 2: introduce complaints and demands and again do a role-play of ordering and then complaining and making a demand.

I have included a variety of other resources I came across while researching for this topic. Feel free to make any adustments you see fit to suit your own style and focus. I don't remember where I found most of the worksheets and other resources but I thank all of the creators for their great contributions. I hope you enjoy it and find it useful!

shhowse · « **Reply #4 on:** June 08, 2010, 05:16:12 PM »

For some reason I could only post 3 items last time so here are the rest of the resources I looked at.

Ashlea · « **Reply #5 on:** June 14, 2010, 12:55:15 PM »

This looks sooo awesome!!!! I can't wait to try it on my students!!!

joannebeckwith · « **Reply #6 on:** September 29, 2010, 12:07:37 PM »

WOW! This is amazng. Thank you so much. :) What a great lesson. Exactly what I needed. :)

jungnuri2 · « **Reply #7 on:** November 15, 2010, 03:48:20 PM »

International Food lesson was a success. My students loved the pictures and videos. As revision I used the Jeopardy Game.

I changed the lesson slightly for my lower level classes.

1. Introduce the adjectives for taste. Teach students that the adjectives for taste can also be used to describe people.
3. Introduce the adjectives for touch. Explain the difference between crunchy/crispy.
4. Adjectives exercise - to put the adjectives under the correct category.
5. Ask students if they're hungry. Tell them that they won't be hungry after this activity. Tell them I'm going to show them 10 pictures of foods from around the world. Ask them to guess what country these are from.
6. For an advanced class, do the Youtube activity'. Explain the names of insects etc before the video.
7. Divide the class into teams and play the Jeopardy game as revision. Include questions about yourself to make the game interesting. (e.g. The longest I have been with someone is ___ years/months). Girls seem to love random questions that they can't answer. The brain teasers were a huge success too.

frisbee649 · « **Reply #8 on:** November 17, 2010, 12:28:53 PM »

Hey,

I used the ideas that you had for my classes. I modified the both the powerpoint and the activities that go along with this. I also gave the lower kids a list of words which was helpful in answering the food riddle questions. Here you are!

I found that many koreans classified tomatoes and pumpkins as vegetables instead of fruits. Also, they pronounced dairy as diary, pears as peers, and salmon as sal-mon. They did not realize that the l was silent. I would definitely review the correct pronunciations of these words.

Matt

frisbee649 · « **Reply #9 on:** November 17, 2010, 12:47:17 PM »

I thought I uploaded the other activities. Let me try again!

frisbee649 · « **Reply #10 on:** November 18, 2010, 12:22:14 PM »

I really like your exotic foods section. I have modified some things. Basically I am going to use your adjective idea. Then we are going to vote on where each exotic food is from. After wards, I am going to have the students choose three of the exotic foods and choose a taste adjective and texture adjective to describe the exotic foods they have chosen. Obviously this will be pour opinion since they never have tasted these foods.

CultureShock · « **Reply #11 on:** November 22, 2010, 03:00:55 PM »

What an excellent lesson! I really like the adjectives, vocabulary, and overall fun of the PPT/lesson. What a great way to introduce key phrases about food.

dwebsterlfc · « **Reply #12 on:** January 12, 2011, 12:16:04 PM »

I actually designed this for a teachers class but I can't see why it couldn't be also used for highschool students.

Also as far as the role play goes I've done it so that it is pre chosen what the students will ask for when they place their order. You could easily change it so that the students can make their own choices.

see what you think.

jblunt1980 · « **Reply #13 on:** March 03, 2011, 01:42:59 PM »

This is my adaption to a ppt that was posted here a while ago. Standing on the shoulder of that giant I think I improved on the original lesson significantly. I used this for my wintercamp class and I think it could be used for the regular semester.

Basically the ppt talks about gross foods. It introduces the topic gives them phrases and words that they might use when discussing exotic foods. Then in the brainstorming section theyre asked to think of weird and strange foods and give their opinion of them. This section the whole lesson really requires impromptu interaction by the teacher. Would you wanna eat that food? Wow, do they really eat that. Why do you think they eat that? etc.

After brainstorming then you hand out the attached sheet and quiz them on different gross/strange foods. For each one I asked the same questions from the brainstorming section Why do you think they eat it? and Would you eat it? thatll get a conversation going. On certain ones I showed a video.

No particular lesson but I used it as a conversation starter and at the end there is a project where students are asked to think of what foods, out of a narrowed down version of the gross foods, they would eat. In groups they would present their opinion, or act out a conversation in which they eat/discuss eating the weird food they picked.

If you do everything here (all the videos etc) It might span two classes. In which case you can give them the homework sheet I attached. It asks them to come up with 3 Korean dishes that they think Foreigners will think are strange. they present them in the next class while I finish up the slides and put them in groups.

The list of videos are:

v15ben · « **Reply #14 on:** March 03, 2011, 01:54:05 PM »

This looks good. I think it will appeal to the crazy Middle Schoolers' imaginations!

Ross84 · « **Reply #15 on:** March 03, 2011, 01:58:48 PM »

Quote from: v15ben on March 03, 2011, 01:54:05 PM

This looks good. I think it will appeal to the crazy Middle Schoolers' imaginations!

Agreed. This is awesome, thanks for posting! :)

manda1616 · « **Reply #16 on:** March 03, 2011, 03:31:51 PM »

I've used this for my high school boys and girls and it usually goes pretty smoothly. You could adjust the vocabulary to make it more easy or difficult but my students are pretty average-low I think.

Class One: Powerpoint "adverbs of frequency and eating habits" until the adverbs of frequency part, then handout 1 which is done in pairs, asking each other "how often do you" then 2 , also done in pairs or alone if your students are too rowdy for pair work.(if time extra worksheet)

Class 2: first show this Mr Bean clip

show powerpoint "Restaurants B" (that's for a boys class) or "Restaurants G" for a girls class. They are only slightly different. (there's a photo of a hooters girl in the boys slideshow and a photo of Brad Pitt in the girls slideshow) :p

then worksheet 1 (restaurant expressions) then worksheet 2, the students work in pairs to create their own restaurant name and menu

Yu_Bumsuk · « **Reply #17 on:** March 03, 2011, 04:53:14 PM »

Looks like a great lesson. I've done one very similar (even with a Mr Bean videa, albeit the one where he goes to a restaurant on his birthday). This one would be great if I want to do the same theme with the same year again.

jblunt1980 · « **Reply #18 on:** March 04, 2011, 11:17:16 AM »

Thanks. Hope you guys find this helpful. I forgot to mention that much of the .ppt is a quiz. You hand out the attached sheet and before discussing a gross food you ask the kids where they think it comes from. They fill in the blanks on the sheet from the choice of countries. You can reveal the answers then or wait till the end, since the second to last slide has the countries and their food listed.

Again, Hope someone finds this helpful!

CellarDoor · « **Reply #19 on:** March 07, 2011, 05:02:38 PM »

Ha! This looks like a lot of fun. I'm not sure if I'll have a chance to use it or not (I really need to get something resembling a long-term plan for my 1st grade high school students...!), but I'll definitely keep it in mind. My students responded well to the food slide in my intro presentation to American culture, so I bet gross foods would get a reaction too.

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