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| "Food" by Richard Graham I'd like some apples, please. He'd like some apples, please I'd like some apples and bananas, please. He'd like some apples and bananas, please. He'd like some apples and bananas and cheese, please. He'd like some apples and bananas and cheese, please etc. continue with: doughnuts, eggs, fish, grapes, hot dogs, ice cream, jelly, ketchup, lettuce, mayonnaise. "Food Part II" by Richard Graham This is the same as above, but this time the list of foods is: noodles, olives, pizza, quiche, rice, salad, toast, ugli fruit, vegetables, waffles, Xmas cake, yoghurt, zucchini. |
. To make sure the song is not simply repeating, the song is written like
the kids are ordering for you at a restaurant, or on the phone.
You start off by saying "I'd like some apples, please".
And the kids say "He/She'd like some apples, please".
Then the fun begins, as the second time it's "I'd like some apples and bananas, please".
Then once the kids have said their line it's "I'd like some apples
and bananas and cheese, please".
And on, and on, and on till you'll end up with "I'd like some apples
and bananas and cheese and doughnuts and eggs and fish and grapes and hot
dogs and ice cream and lettuce and mayonnaise, please!". Crazy, but
fun!
It's just like the "12 Days of Christmas" in that each repeat helps you memorise the earlier words. It starts out slow, then speeds up ( most kids will find somewhere in the middle to be just fast enough for them), but then gets very fast at the end - a great challenge to work up to. Once you've finished it feels like you've run a marathon, but thanks to the melody, you'll be singing it round and round in your head all day!
Then the next week you can go through the next set from noodles - zucchini.
And if you're really adventurous there's even a version on the CD that
goes right from a to z in one go!
The key with this theme is the specially chosen set of words.
For starters all of them can be used just as they are with "I'd like some.." or "Do you like ....?" . Teaching the words like this from the start means we avoid mistakes
such as "I like noodle" or "I like apple". If you do
need the singular form of the word, it's simple, if it has an "s",
take it off, if it doesn't have one, use it as it is!! It's a lot easier
than learning the singular form and then having to worry about which ones
can and can't take an "s"!
You've also probably noticed that they go from a-z ( great for doing a
"food alphabet") but the main reason they were chosen is that
with the possible exception of "quiche" and "ugli fruit"
( which were chosen for their starting letter!) they are all words that
Japanese kids will know the meaning of straight away.
This is great for 5th and 6th grade classes where you may have some kids
that say "Eigo wakaranai" ( "I don't understand English!").
With these classes, you say you're going to do an activity where you'll
say an English word and they have to shout out the Japanese. And you just
read off this set of words and get them to translate. I've seen kids who've
been really adamant ( because of previous teachers or parents) that they
don't understand any English turn around and have the look that says "well,
yeah, I did understand those!". So this works great for giving a bit
of confidence! It's also cool for showing that katakana pronunciation isn't
English, but Japanese.
In this theme there are a couple of points that differ between American
and other Englishes. For example the "jelly" card I've used here
is the UK image of "jelly", as it also happens to be nearest
to the Japanese "zeli". If you're from the States you could always
use a picture of US "jelly". And then for the last word I've
chosen the American "zucchini". In the UK people would probably
use "courgette", but like "jelly", zucchini is the
nearest word to the Japanese so that's what I went for. These differences
are always useful for the kids to learn that not everyone says everything
in the same way!
Picture Books
There are also the online "I love vegetables" and "What's your favourite food?" picture books for this theme.
Worksheet:
This is best in groups. The teacher says "I'd like some" + several
foods. The kids find out how much each food costs and shout out the total
price! Try again, gradually adding in more and more foods or get the kids
to try!
Recommended Game:
The recommended game for this theme is either to use the worksheets for role playing, or try the Balloon Game to practise the language!
Anyway, enjoy your foods!
The "Food" songs can be found on CD vol. 5 !
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