Materials Development
#1
Level
& Students: Intermediate-low, EFL setting in China (16
students are all native speakers of Chinese.)
Lesson
Topic: Ordering
food in a restaurant
Lesson
Written by: Hongbo
Zhu
Lesson
Objectives:
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Students will become familiar with the vocabularies that related to food
•
Students will become familiar with the sentence patterns that can be
used to order food
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Students will learn new words related to food
•
Students will be able to use proper language to order food in an English
speaking restaurant
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Time: One hour
Pre-lesson
Inventory
Ø
Things to bring to class:
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Words Cards (Food)
o
Pictures
Ø
Equipment: Computer
Warm-up
activity: Review the words related to food (5 minutes)
Procedures:
1.
The teacher will show students
the word cards one by one, ask them to read it.
2.
If the students do not know the
words, the teacher will allow students to look them up in a dictionary.
3.
Whole class review: The teacher
will show the word cards to the students again, let them speak the words
loudly.
Transition: Great job. Now that you have reviewed some words that related to
the food, now let look at more words that related to food.
Activity
1: Vocabularies (15 minutes)
Procedures:
1.
Tell Ss they will read a menu form
an English speaking restaurant
2.
Give Ss time to get familiar with
the menu, especially the new words on the menu. They may work in groups of 4.
Transition:
OK. Now you are good to order food in an English
spoken restaurant. Let’s listen to this digital story and see if you can
understand it.
Activity
2: Listening Activity 1 (5 minutes)
Procedure:
1.
Tell Ss they will hear a dialogue
between a guest and a waiter from the digital storytelling website. Ask Ss to
listen carefully and see if they can understand the dialogue.
2.
Ask the students to write sown the
food that the guest are trying to order. Ss will work in groups of 4, and each
group will have a copy of the menu.
Dialogue: Ordering Food in a Restaurant
Read this dialogue
Waiter: Hello, Can I help you?
Tim: Yes, I'd like to have some lunch.
Waiter: Would you like a starter?
Tim: Yes, I'd like a bowl of chicken
soup, please.
Waiter: And what would you like for a main
course?
Tim: I'd like a grilled cheese
sandwich.
Waiter: Would you like anything to drink?
Tim: Yes, I'd like a glass of Coke,
please.
Waiter...
After Kim has her lunch.: Can I bring you anything else?
Tim: No thank you. Just the bill.
Waiter: Certainly.
Tim: I don't have my glasses. How much
is the lunch?
Waiter: That's $6.75.
Tim: Here you are. Thank you very much.
Waiter: You're welcome. Have a good day.
Tim: Thank you, the same to you.
Website of the dialogue: (The whole dialogue is too long, so I made to
videos.)
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Starters
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Chicken
Soup
$2.50
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$2.50
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Salad
$3.25
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$3.25
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Sandwiches
- Main Course
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Ham
and cheese
$3.50
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$3.50
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Tuna
$3.00
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$3.00
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Vegetarian $4.00
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$4.00
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Grilled
Cheese
$2.50
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$2.50
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Piece
of Pizza
$2.50
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$2.50
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Cheeseburger $4.50
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$4.50
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Hamburger
deluxe $5.00
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$5.00
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Spaghetti $5.50
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$5.50
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Drinks
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Coffee $1.25
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$1.25
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Tea
$1.25
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$1.25
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Soft
Drinks - Coke, Sprite, Root Beer, etc. $1.75
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$1.75
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Transition:
OK. Each group did a good job! Now it is your turn
to produce your own dialogue and record your voices.
Activity
3: Producing dialogue and record dialogues (30 minutes)
Procedures:
1.
This time, Ss will work in pairs.
In each group, one student will the guest, the other student will be the waiter
or waitress.
2.
Ask each group to produce a similar
dialogue by using 5 minutes. Then go to the voxopop.com website to record their
voices by using 5 minutes.
3.
Ss will share their dialogues with
their classmates and see if their classmates can understand the dialogues by
listening at most 2 times. (20 minutes)
Transition:
Great job on this activity. Let’s read the dialogue
between Tim and the waiter again.
Activity
4: Read the dialogue (5 minutes)
Ask Ss to read the dialogue together.
Homework:
Review all the vocabularies you have learned from today and read the dialogue
for 3 times at home.
Tools:
1.
Digital storytelling
The teacher has used the
digital storytelling to make the dialogue that is interesting and easy to
attract students’ attention.
Since the dialogue is a
little bit long, the teacher has to make 2 videos.
2.
voxopop.com
The students
have to access this website to record their own dialogues and then share with
their classmates.
Also, I assume
that the Ss are not the first time to use this tool to practice their speaking
and record their voices.
Overview:
This lesson
is designed for 16 EFL native Chinese speakers. They are all about
intermediate-low level. They have mastered some basic vocabularies and sentence
patterns of English language. This is a listening and speaking class, focuses
on the topic of ordering food in a restaurant. During the class, students have
to communicate with their teacher and classmates in English, and other
languages are not allowed.
The
purpose of this class is help students to get familiar with “ordering food”
vocabularies and sentence patterns. The students come to this class to learn
listening and speaking skills in daily conversations. Since the students have
learned words and sentence patterns that related to ordering food, the students
will not feel that this is a hard class. The tools that have been used in the
classroom instruction also help to stimulate students’ learning interests.
Digital storytelling is a good tool for both teachers and students to make
their own videos. Because of the vivid pictures and voices, it can help the
teacher to attract students’ attention during the class time. The other tool
has been used to teach this class is voxopop, this is a tool for learners to
record their voices and make their dialogues.
