The lesson plan is for a nutrition class taught by Estela N Braun and Liliana Moserrat at Escuela No2 Remedios de Escalada de San Martín on Tuesday and Friday afternoons. The aims are to introduce new food vocabulary, present the food pyramid, and do a Total Physical Response activity. Activities include presenting new food words with flashcards, a labeling game in groups at the food pyramid, reading about a student's daily meals, and individually writing sentences about their own diet.

1. LESSON PLAN
Teachers: Estela N Braun, Liliana Moserrat.
Student Teacher: Víctor Camargo, Jésica Perez.
School: Escuela Nº2 Remedios de Escalada de San Martín.
Timetable: Tuesday 16.45 – 17.30 / Friday 15.40 – 16.35.
Date: 13/09/13.
Topic: Nutrition.
Class Nº5
AIMS
To introduce new vocabulary items.
To present the food pyramid.
To engage students in a Total Physical Response activity.
OBJECTIVES
To associate food images with their spelling and pronunciation.
To read a text about a student’s meals.
To produce a text about their diet.

2. ACTIVITIES
ACTIVITY
TYPE OF
INTERACTION
Whole class.
Activity 1:
Presentation of new
vocabulary.
A food pyramid poster will be
stuck on the board. The new
vocabulary items will be
presented with new
flashcards. (chocolate, butter,
pizza, strawberry, broccoli,
grapes, pear, ice cream) Then
the students will have to
answer question orally: What
do you eat for lunch? Do you
drink milk with lunch?
Activity 2: Game.
Whole class
The students will be divided
into two groups. The pyramid
and the flashcards will be
stuck on the board. Each
group will receive the labels
for the food, which will be
scattered on a desk. The
student teacher will
pronounce one word aloud
and one student per group will
have to look for the label on
the table, and then run to the
board and stick it below the
flashcard. The student who
sticks the label first will get a
point for her/his group.
Activity 3:
A) The students will read a
Pair work
text¹ about a girl who
describes what she eats during
a whole day. After that, they
will solve two comprehension Individual
exercises2.
MACROSKILL
TIMING
MATERIALS
Speaking
10’
Food pyramid
poster.
Flashcards.
Blackboard.
Reading
Listening
10’
Food pyramid
poster.
Flashcards.
Blackboard.
Labels.
Reading
10’
Photocopies
provided by
the student
teacher.
Blackboard.
Food Pyramid
poster.
Labels for
categories of
food.

3. Activity 4:
They will produce sentences
individually, following the
model text with the student
teacher’s help, who will write
an example3 on the
blackboard. Then, they will
read their answer aloud.
Blackboard
Individual
Writing
10’

4. Reference:
1
Malena’s Diet
I get up at 7 a.m. For breakfast I have chocolate milk with bread and butter. Then, I go to
school.
At 12.30 p.m. I have lunch: Steak with salad or chips, and a fruit.
At 6 p.m. is tea time, I have chocolate milk with biscuits.
At 10 p.m. I have dinner with my family: pasta with cheese, and I drink orange juice.
My favourite food is ice-cream, I have it on Sunday.
2
Comprehension Exercises:
Match the time with the meals:
6 p.m.
Breakfast
7 a.m.
Dinner
12.30 p.m.
Tea time
10 p.m.
Lunch
True or false?
Correct the false words.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
3
Malena has steak and salad for breakfast. (T – F)
Malena has pasta with cheese for dinner. (T – F)
Malena’s favourite food is chips. (T – F)
Malena has biscuits and chocolate milk for lunch. (T – F)
Malena has biscuits and chocolate milk for tea time. (T – F)
Example
I get up at...
I have...
for breakfast.
I have ...
for lunch.
At tea time, I have...
For dinner, I have...
My favourite food is...