4th Grade Unit 11 Food and Drinks Pronunciation Activities

Funda Topal

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Grade/ Unit: 4^th grade-Unit 11-Food and Drinks

Language point: carrot, orange, banana, grapes, potato, tomato, apple, milk, water, fruit juice, tea, hamburger

Aims: to be aware of individual sounds, to produce the sounds accurately, to develop listening awareness

Materials: pictures, videos, colorful alphabet cartoons, sheets

Present:

Activity: listen and repeat

Aims: Students listen and try to understand the words. Then, they try to produce the words.

1-      I use ‘chocolate cake’ song. Pupils listen to the song twice. (http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/songs/chocolate-cake)

2-      I give them chocolate cake song’s lyrics and they try to sing the song.

3-      Then, I use picture of the food and drinks (carrot, orange, banana, grapes, potato, tomato, apple, milk, water, fruit juice, tea). I hand out the letter cartoons to the students randomly. Every student has a letter. I show a food and drinks picture to pupils.

4-      They try to bring together individual sounds of the letter of the food and drinks. For instance, I show the carrot picture to the students. The students who have the letters of the carrot (C-A-R-R-O-T) came to the board and make up the word. Then, the whole class says the word loudly. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLJe7IQtoeM)

Practice:

Aims: Students hear a sentence and tell the sentence to their friends correctly.

Activity: whispering game

1-      Students make three groups. This is a game between groups.

2-      I say a sentence for each group, which contains food and drinks name. For example, Ayşe wants to eat banana and apple.

3-      They try to whisper the sentences correctly to each other. The last students of the groups have to pronounce the word accurately.

4-      The group who achieves to pronounce the sentence accurately than the other groups is the winner. I have chocolate for the winner.

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Produce:

Aims: they write own their songs and compose it orally.

Activity: write a song and sing it

1-      I want the students to make groups of five.

2-      Each group try to create a song using food and drinks names (carrot, orange, banana, grapes, potato, tomato, apple, milk, water, fruit juice, tea, and hamburger)

3-      They sing their song in front of the whole class.

Chocolate cake

Words have rhythms
We can use our sticks and drums to tap out the rhythms of words
Let’s tap out the rhythms of a really delicious meal

Chicken rice and peas
Chicken rice and peas
Chicken rice and peas
Chicken rice and peas
Chicken rice and peas
Chicken rice and peas
Hands up who likes chicken rice and peas
Yummy yummy yummy 
Put it in my tummy
I like, you like, chicken rice and peas

Chicken rice and peas
Chicken rice and peas
Hands up who likes chicken rice and peas
Yummy yummy yummy 
Put it in my tummy
I like, you like, chicken rice and peas

Chicken rice and peas
Chicken rice and peas
Hands up who likes chicken rice and peas
Yummy yummy yummy 
Put it in my tummy
I like, you like, chicken rice and peas

Blackcurrant juice
Blackcurrant juice
Blackcurrant juice
Blackcurrant juice
Blackcurrant juice
Blackcurrant juice
Hands up who likes blackcurrant juice
Yummy yummy yummy 
Put it in my tummy
I like, you like blackcurrant juice
Blackcurrant juice
Blackcurrant juice
Hands up who likes blackcurrant juice
Yummy yummy yummy 
Put it in my tummy
I like, you like blackcurrant juice

Blackcurrant juice
Blackcurrant juice
Hands up who likes blackcurrant juice
Yummy yummy yummy 
Put it in my tummy
I like, you like blackcurrant juice

Chocolate cake
Chocolate cake
Chocolate cake
Chocolate cake
Chocolate cake
Chocolate cake
Hands up who likes chocolate cake
Yummy yummy yummy
Put it in my tummy
I like, you like chocolate cake

Chocolate cake
Chocolate cake
Hands up who likes chocolate cake
Yummy yummy yummy 
Put it in my tummy
I like you like chocolate cake

Chocolate cake
Chocolate cake
Hands up who likes chocolate cake
Yummy yummy yummy 
Put it in my tummy
I like you like chocolate cake
Yummy yummy yummy 
Put it in my tummy
I like, you like chocolate cake

We love chocolate cake!