Food

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> > > user:richa521 > user:dawnmarie > user:dawnmarie > user:Bubblewrapper > > > http://www.mypyramid.gov/sp-index.html > http://www.mypyramid.gov/global_nav/sp-media_animation-presentation_pc.html (or _mac) > http://www.ces.purdue.edu/cfs/topics/FNP/mypyramidspanishvideo.htm > > user:richa521 > > > > After making all of these cards, I wanted another way to use them. So the next day this is what we did to review. I had two students stand with their backs to the board, facing the class. I then taped up a different store behind each student and put all of the food (either all of the orange set or all of the blue set) in the center of the board. On the count of three, the students turned around and had to grab all of the food items that went into their store. They had 30 seconds to do this, and then we went through it at the end. The student had to say the name of their store and what food they sold there. Whoever had the most correct, won. The class really got into this and would count to 30 (in Spanish of course) while the two students on the board scrambled to get their food. > user:dawnmarie > user:dawnmarie > > user:richa521 user:darkcait
 * Children's Books
 * [|Amalia y sus primeras tortillas -] Jerry Tello
 * [|El gusto del mercado mexicano] - Nancy María Grande Tabor
 * La oruga muy hambrienta - Eric Carle
 * [|Pan dulce] - Kathleen Contreras
 * [|La tortillería] - Gary Paulsen
 * [|Todo el mundo cocina arroz] - Norah Dooley
 * Un cuento de quetzalcóatl acerca del chocolate - Marilyn Parke & Sharon Panik
 * Chocolate Reading - An article about the history of chocolate (in English) with questions to answer.
 * Comic Strips - These are comic strips that I found that all deal with food situations. I laminated them and had my students fill in the comic strips using food vocabulary and food expressions. They did this with overhead markers so they could be erased. I made two copies of each strip. They got into groups and had to write in their boxes and then share with the group that had the same one. Then I had them get into different groups and share their comic strips with people who had a different comic.
 * Comida Concept Map user:AnthonyFontana
 * Dialogue - This is a dialogue that my mentor wrote. It uses a lot of food expressions and vocabulary. I am having my students memorize it and then perform it in front of the class.
 * Family Food Project user:chericem1
 * [|Foods] - Teaching ideas and activities user:chericem1
 * Food Bingo - A bingo sheet to practice speaking with -er verbs and food vocabulary. Students ask each other the questions in the tu form (comes mucho pollo?), respond orally in the yo form (Si, como mucho pollo), and then write down the sentences talking in the third person (Shawn come mucho pollo). After they've asked sixteen different people the questions, the class can play bingo. The teacher calls off people's names (i did it by using numbered popsicle sticks and using the attendance book, but it can be done however), and if the students talked with the person whose name the teacher calls, they would mark that box.
 * Food Pyramid - This is a PowerPoint with pictures of the Food Pyramid- old and new, in Spanish and English. At the end, there is a link to the USDA's food pyramid website in Spanish. You can enter your age, gender, and activity level and it tells you what "your" food pyramid should look like. The 2nd and 3rd links are videos about the food pyramid in Spanish.
 * Food pyramid worksheet/activity user:whitesa6
 * Food Shops - This is an activity I did to help my students learn and remember food vocabulary and the names of the stores where you buy them. I printed out the names of the stores and hung them around the room. I then printed out two copies of the names of the food, cut them out, and pasted them on two different colors of paper. (So there were two identical sets of food cards, one orange and one blue) The class was split into two teams. Each team had a set of cards and they had to figure out which food went to which store and a member of their team had to go stand under that store name, holding that food. There was enough food so that everyone in the class was holding at least one. The first team to have all their members at a store won. At the end I went around and each student had to tell me the store they were at, the food they were holding, and the English translation. If they all were correct, that team won.
 * Food speaking activity user:nutterky
 * Food unit by Brianne Jensen user:chericem1 [[file:Brianne Jensen TWS FINAL.doc]]
 * [|Grid Drawing Activity.doc] user:emilylewis
 * Math Worksheet - This is a math worksheet I used to introduce food vocabulary. After the students completed it, they made up their own equations in the remaining boxes. Then I gave them each a transparency and a marker. They had to draw one of their made-up equations and then we put it on the overhead and the class had to figure it out. For example - one student drew 2 lemons, a box of sugar, and bottle of lemon juice, and a glass and then put an equals sign. The class had to say "dos limones más una caja de azúcar más una botella de jugo de limón más un vaso son limonada”
 * Me Gusta Info Gap Activity - An info-gap activity to practice me gusta, fruits, and vegetables.
 * Info Gap Activity - This is an infogap activity where students must come up with questions to ask each other about different foods, and the other students must respond in complete sentences. Here is how I did it.
 * Students will write out questions for each of the following foods (15) that they can ask a classmate
 * They will spend 15 minutes writing the questions out
 * I will put some possible questions on the board
 * Students will then walk around the room and ask the questions that they have written. This will be solo español time, and anyone speaking English will get a three point penalty. You pretend that no one in the room speaks English. If students have to explain something they should do so with sign language and using other Spanish words they know.
 * The rules
 * Solo espanol
 * Ask one person at a time- NO GROUPS
 * If I see you writing down the words without speaking you will receive a zero
 * You must write down the other person’s answers in a complete sentence.
 * When they have finished we will play a game of bingo in which I will say different foods in Spanish and they will mark them with bingo chips.Standard Bingo rules will apply.
 * Winner can get points or candy.
 * Oral activity- Have paper plates and color pencils/crayons. Have students draw on their plates, something they would want to order, but tell them they HAVE to know how to say it in Spanish. Then, you can ask the students what they ordered to bring in ir preterite stem changers, (or present tense for lower levels) and then, talk about what others in the class have ordered. You can also have them switch the plates with each other and challenge them to remember vocabulary that other students drew. Then, if you want to bring in IOP, you can ask things like "Que te sirvió el camarero?" or "Qué le trajo el camarero?" and have them ask and answer questions accordingly...user:cartierm
 * Paper Plate Pairs - Once you've learned some vocabulary for food, you can have students draw 3-5 food items on a paper plate. Then, orally practice saying what students have ordered. You can even put them in groups and have them try and remember everything that all students ordered. I ordered__, Sarah ordered____ etc. I did this in a Spanish III class, when we worked on IR verbs in the preterite, and thus students used reported speech to help practice the spelling/pronunciation change. user:cartierm
 * Pizza PowerPoint - A PowerPoint to introduce Pizza vocabulary, using a Domino's menu and a little dialogue. [[file:Pizza Lesson.ppt]]user:richa521
 * Quizno's Menu user:AnthonyFontana
 * Recipe Activity - Give each student a recipe that lists ingredients and steps, but no title. Have students read the recipe and then discuss in small groups what dish they think each recipe makes.
 * Recipes - This particular website has excellent, proven and authentic recipes that we can all try to replicate for our studens. It also has great pictures and some background information on Mexican cuisine: [|La Cocina Mexicana] user:gabybutcher
 * Restaurant menu user:nutterky
 * Warm-up activity user:batorbro

=Songs=

[|El menú by El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico] (music) ([|lyrics])

=Videos= You can use the following videos and this attached talking worksheet, to teach food vocabulary and help students develop their analytical thinking and the 5 C's: user:mrhunsaker
 * [|McDonald's Commercial]
 * [|Papasiones Video]
 * [|Comercial de Casancrem]
 * You can also use these flash cards for pre-viewing: [[file:Food Flash cards labeled.docx]], [[file:Food Flash cards without labels.docx]]

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