Food Exercise One: Steve and Janet
Language Function: reading, writing, speaking, and listening
Grammar Point:
- use of the past simple
- affirmative and interrogative forms
- food vocabulary
Vocabulary: breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack, toast, butter, cereal, orange juice, apple juice, banana, orange, stew, bread, sandwich, soup, salad, chicken, ice-cream, chips, cookies, pasta, omelette, pizza, eggs and bacon.
Age Group: 10 to 12-year-olds
Learning Objective:
- to practise writing, asking and answering questions in the past simple by reading and using information given about the eating habits of two children Steve and Janet.
Instructions:
- Divide class into two groups. Give each group either the Janet or the Steve worksheet.
- Each group works together to write eight questions about the table on the page.
- Then give the Janet group a copy of the Steve table and vice versa.
- One group starts by asking the questions they wrote. The other group refers to the table you just gave them and answers the questions. For example, the Janet group asks the other group "Did Janet eat pizza for dinner on Monay?" The other group looks at the Janet worksheet you just gave them and answers the question. The Janet group asks all their questions and then the groups switch roles.
Janet worksheet (pdf file)
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