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Broccoli Is Good for You.
The activities below provide fun exercises for the entire class when you have extra time. They are designed to be taught with specific exercises in this unit. Click on an activity in the list below or scroll down the page.
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Shopping lists
This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 5, "Pronunciation: Sentence Stress."
Time: 10–15 minutes. This activity practices the spelling of food words and teaches additional vocabulary related to food.
- Write the names of two simple dishes that students are likely to be familiar with on the board.
- Point to the name of the first dish and ask, "What do you need for ___ ?" students brainstorm the ingredients for the first dish and you write them on the board. Students need to agree on the ingredients; use ingredients that a majority of students agree on.
- Practice the names of the ingredients.
- Have students work in pairs or small groups to list the ingredients of the other dish. As they work, go around the class to check on their progress and help them.
- Have individuals come to the board to write the names of the ingredients for the second dish. Each student writes one ingredient. Continue until students agree that all the necessary ingredients have been listed.
- Practice the names of the ingredients for the second dish.
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Favorite snacks
This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 5, "Pronunciation: Sentence Stress."
Time: 10–15 minutes. This activity provides freer practice with food vocabulary.
- Write these questions on the board:
What is the name of your favorite snack?
What do you need to make it?
- Ask students to think of their favorite snack. (Note: A snack is any food you eat between meals.) Have them write down the name of the snack on a piece of paper and list what they need to make it. Walk around to give help.
- In pairs, students take turns asking the questions on the board and responding with the information they wrote.
- Optional: Bring the class back together. Students take turns reading the ingredients they need to make their favorite snack – without mentioning the name of the food. The class guesses the name of the food.
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Breakfast at my house
This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 9, "Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner."
Time: 20–30 minutes.
- Have students write conversations like the one in Unit 9, Exercise 6 using information about what their own families have for breakfast, lunch, or dinner on Sundays.
- Students role play their conversations in pairs. A few pairs can perform for the whole class.
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Scrambled letters
This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 10, "Reading: Eating for Good Luck."
Time: 5–10 minutes. This type of activity can be used with any unit for a fun review. This puzzle reviews vocabulary and spelling from Unit 1. All of the words in the puzzle come from Exercises 6 (Saying Hello) and 11 (Saying Good-bye).
- Copy this on the board:
| n i e f |
f __ __ __ |
| r e a l t |
l __ __ __ __ |
| l o h e l |
h __ __ __ __ |
| g t i h n |
n __ __ __ __ |
| s k a n t h |
t __ __ __ __ __ |
| n e e v i n g |
e __ __ __ __ __ __ |
| o r g m i n n |
m __ __ __ __ __ __ |
| r o t o r m o w |
t __ __ __ __ __ __ __ |
| g d o o – y b e |
g __ __ __ __ __ __ __ |
| f o r o n a n e t |
a __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ |
- Have students work in pairs to unscramble the words.
- Check answers on the board with the whole class. Make sure students have spelled the words correctly.
Answers
| fine |
thanks |
good-bye |
| later |
evening |
afternoon |
| hello |
morning |
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| night |
tomorrow |
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Game – Hangman
This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 10, "Reading: Eating for Good Luck."
Time: 20 minutes. This popular game can be used to practice vocabulary and spelling in any unit.
- Each student chooses a word from the unit.
- Students take turns going to the board. The student at the board draws the hangman diagram and blanks – one blank for each letter of the word he or she has chosen:
- The student at the board calls on other students to take turns guessing the letters of the word. If someone guesses a correct letter, it is written in the appropriate blank. If the guess is wrong, the student at the board draws one part of the body on the gallows. There are nine body parts, which are drawn in this order: head, neck, left arm, right arm, body, left leg, right leg, left foot, and right foot.
- The object of the game is for someone to guess the correct word before the picture of the hangman's body is completed. The student who guesses the word is the winner and gets to be the next student at the board. If the body is complete, the student at the board wins.
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Game – Word bingo
This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 10, "Reading: Eating for Good Luck."
Time: 10–15 minutes. This activity reviews words from Units 1–4.
- Show students how to make a Bingo card on an 8½ X 11-inch sheet of paper with 25 spaces on it, like this:
| B |
I |
N |
G |
O |
| morning |
she |
fall |
pen |
I |
| winter |
afternoon |
it |
desk |
sister |
| clock |
mother |
FREE |
evening |
you |
| he |
chair |
summer |
family |
night |
| parents |
book |
pencil |
spring |
brother |
- Make up a list of twenty-four words. This list could include names of objects, clothing, colors, countries and regions, descriptive adjectives, seasons and weather, or prepositions of place.
- Write the words on the board, and have students write them down in random order on their bingo cards, without repetitions. Students write free in the center space.
- Dictate words at random. (You may repeat the word several times, depending on your students' abilities.) students find words on their cards and circle them. Keep a list of the words you call so that no words are repeated. (You will need the list to check cards when students call "Bingo.")
- The first student to circle five words in a row (or four words plus the free space) in any direction shouts, "Bingo!"
- Ask the student to read the circled words aloud. Check your list. If all the words are correct, the student wins.
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Complete the word
This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 10, "Reading: Eating for Good Luck."
Time: 10–15 minutes. This activity can be used to practice vocabulary and spelling in any unit. Here students review verbs from Unit 5, Exercises 7 and 9.
- Copy the following on the board:
| 1. |
_ a _ |
| 2. |
_ w _ _ |
| 3. |
_ _ d _ |
| 4. |
_ r _ _ _ |
| 5. |
_ _ _ _ p |
| 6. |
_ _ _ c _ |
| 7. |
_ _ n _ _ |
| 8. |
_ _ l _ |
| 9. |
_ h _ _ |
| 10. |
_ o _ _ |
- Tell students the answers are in Unit 5, Exercises 7 and 9. Have students work in pairs to find the words and fill in the missing letters.
- Check answers on the board with the class.
Answers
- eat
- swim
- ride
- drive
- sleep
- watch
- dance
- walk
- shop
- work
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