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It is important to note that this session is designed to be implemented with the methodology of corners. Given
this, the students are going to be divided into groups (better to have the same groups of telecollaboration)
and are going to rotate among the 4 corners in the classroom. Also, this lesson may require a large room.
Activity, (Corner 1): Let’s play! Objectives Met:
This corner will be focused on traditional “board games” such as ● Identify and use vocabulary
related to food
domino and memory games. ● Identify and use vocabulary
● Domino: this is a popular game to learn vocabulary in a related to cooking
appliances or utensils
foreign language, consisting in pairing an image with its
corresponding word. In this case, the domino is focused on
learning vocabulary about food. The flash-cards must be
chained, and the player that uses all his/her cards wins.
● Memory game: the students will have a set of cards
faced-down and they will have to pair each object, in this case,
focused on kitchen utensils or appliances, with the
corresponding word. In this game an additional rule must be
applied and is that of saying the word of the object the student
has picked while showing it to the others. If this is omitted, the
play does not count, that is why the rest of the players must be
paying attention.
Materials Needed:
Domino
Memory game
Activity (Corner 2): Imagine that… Objectives Met:
● Role-play: role-plays are perfect opportunities to practice ● Use specific vocabulary in
specific vocabulary or sentences but giving students controlled dialogues
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free-range to explore the language at the same timers. This related to food
corner will be somehow drama-based, and students will have ● Identify and use vocabulary
related to cooking verbs
different cards presenting different situations that they will ● Identify and use vocabulary
have to represent in pairs. This situation cards will be related to cooking appliances
or utensils
accompanied of some talking-prompts specific to each
situation in order to help students in case they need it. The
other students will be the audience and will have to guess
which situation they are representing. After that, they swap
roles. Also, the students will have different utensils, costumes
and other attrezzo to accompany the dialogues. The
situations include being in a restaurant and asking for your
food, starring a cooking TV show, showing a recipe to a
foreign friend of yours, being at the supermarket and having
to buy supplies, going shopping for kitchen appliances…
Materials Needed:
Cards with the explanation of the communicative situation
Cards with talking prompts adapted to the situation
Activity, (Corner 3): What are you doing? Objective Met:
● Mimic game (Cooking verbs): this is another drama-based ● Identify and use vocabulary
related to cooking verbs
game in which students are divided into two different groups.
Then, by turns, the round starts. For example, in group A, one
member of the group is going to be in front of the others. First,
he or she will take a card in which there is a drawing
representing an action, in this case focusing on cooking
verbs, and this student must mime it. Secondly, his or her
team will have different papers with all the actions or verbs
written in English, and they will have to guess which verb is
the one their peer is representing. The team must agree on the
word (verb) and say it out loud. Then, it is the turn of team B.
When doing the game next times, they can swap roles.
Materials Needed:
Flash-cards with cooking verbs
Activity, (Corner 4): Down to practice Objective Met:
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In this corner, students will have a wide variety of worksheets and
related to food
vocabulary practice to choose from. The worksheets have different ● Identify and use vocabulary
types of exercises and will cover all the vocabulary of the unit (food, related to cooking verbs
● Identify and use vocabulary
cooking verbs, kitchen appliances, etc). Students can do as much related to cooking appliances
worksheets as they want, considering that once they pick one, they or utensils
cannot grab another one unless they have finished that one. Lastly,
students can do these worksheets individually or in pairs (not in
groups), always specifying the authors of the work done. 5 minutes
before the corner is finished, students must check their answers with
the answer key, which will be kept by the teacher.
Materials Needed:
Different and diverse worksheets to practice vocabulary
All materials retrieved from:
ISLCollective. (n.d.). 44 FREE ESL cooking Reading worksheets. Retrieved November 30, from
https://en.islcollective.com/resources/search_result?Tags=cooking&Skill=Reading&type=Printable
s&searchworksheet=GO&view=list