Lesson 14: Let's make a salad!

Let's make a salad with

corn and potatoes!

Let's make a salad with

green beans and peas!

Let's make a salad with

onions and peppers,

tomato, cucumber

and white cheese!

Stage 1 – Brief Revision

Revise the previous lesson briefly following the procedure of Lesson 3 Stage 1 (here revise: toy, model car, model truck, teddy bear, doll, toy blocks, puzzle, numbers 6-10)

Stage 2 – Vocabulary focus i) VEGETABLES: corn, potato, green beans, green peas, onion, pepper, tomato, cucumber ii) FOOD: salad, cheese iii) VERBS: to make

Prepare flashcards and finger puppets at home that depict vegetables. Present the vegetable flashcards to Ss, use L1 and ask them: “What can you see in the pictures?”, “Do you like vegetables?”, “What is your favourite vegetable”, “How often do you eat vegetables and salads?”. Present and drill vocabulary items concerning vegetables corn, potato, green beans, green peas, onion, pepper, tomato, cucumber by using the flashcards and / or rhythmical clapping [corn (clap one half note, ta-ah), green beans, green peas, pe-pper, sa-lad (clap two quarter notes, ta ta), po-ta-to, o-ni-on, to-ma-to, cu-cum-ber (clap three quarter notes, ta ta ta)]. Use mime to teach Ss the meaning of the verb to make (a salad). Revise the meaning of the word cheese by asking them to tell you which animal they have already learnt eats cheese (mouse). Then, practise vegetables further by presenting Ss with some pictures depicting salads and by asking them to recognise what kind of vegetables the salads are made of. Tell Ss that they will sing a song in which they suggest making a salad with various vegetables. Play the song on the piano. Ask Ss to i) stand up and move to the rhythm of the music ii) raise the correct flashcard or finger puppet of the vegetable that is heard in the song iii) put the vegetable flashcards in the correct order based on the song iv) sing the song and clap their hands (3 quarter notes per measure, ta ta ta)

Stage 3 – Incorporating percussion instruments into our activities & practising rhythmical patterns

Divide the class into groups and give them the percussion instruments they are going to use in this song (Always give instructions by following the procedure of Lesson 1 Stage 3). Group A beats 1 one-dotted half note per measure using their scrapers (ta-ah-ah), Group B beats 3 quarter notes per measure using their sticks (ta ta ta) , Group C beats “1 half note, 1 quarter note” per measure using their jingle sticks (ta-ah ta). Practice separately and then altogether as a band. Last, ask Ss to play and sing the song as much as they can.

Stage 4 – Follow-up activities

Ask Ss to draw a salad by using some of the vegetables they have just learnt. While drawing, Ss could be listening to music ( e.g. Eleni Karaindrou “The Wedding Waltz”). In the end, Ss vote for the best drawing. Alternatively, Ss could play a variation of the “Guess Who” game. One S at a time chooses a vegetable from the ones above and the rest of the class tries to discover it by asking him / her questions e.g. Is it yellow / red / yummy? etc. Ask Ss to sing goodbye to Mrs Mary (see Lesson 1 Follow-up).