Unit 7- Fruits

FRUITS 

OBJECTIVES 

• EFL/ESL young learners will learn the names of the fruits in English.
• Build essential vocabulary on fruit which will be useful in their lesson.
• Learn to ask a simple question using the question word "What".

AGENDA 

1. Warm-up
2. Teach the fruit vocabulary
3. Play "Fruit Rope Jump" game
4. Audiobook "Oliver´s Fruit salad story"
5. Teach structures "What fruit do you like?" and "I like"
6. Activity: yes/no Guess
7. Clouser: Do "Quick Check"

WARM-UP

TEACH THE FRUIT VOCABULARY

If you can, get small plastic fruit (or draw them). Put the 8 fruit into a small box before the class. Now take out the box and shake it – the rattling sound will instantly alert your students. Open the box and pull out a fruit. Ask "What’s this?" Elicit / Teach the name and repeat it 3 times. Now mime biting the fruit and chewing, and then say "Yummy!". Then hold the fruit in front of each student to let them take an imaginary bite. Encourage them to say "yummy!" or even "yuk!". Repeat with the other fruit.

PLAY "FRUIT JUMP" GAME 

Take a length of rope, and lay it across the floor at one end of the classroom. On one side place the 8 plastic fruit and the box. Have your students line up on the other side of the rope. Model: "(Your name), put the (apple) in the box". Run up to the rope, jump over the rope (say "Jump!") select the correct fruit, and put it in the box. Now instruct each student to do the activity.

AUDIOBOOK "OLIVER´S FRUIT SALAD STORY"

TEACH STRUCTURES "WHAT FRUIT DO YOU LIKE? " AND "I LKE"

Sit everyone down to watch you. Take out the 8 plastic fruit. Take one and say "Yummy! I like (apples)!". Put it to your right side. Take another fruit and do the same. Next, take a fruit and say "Yuk! I don’t like (melons)". Put it to your left. Keep going with the rest of the fruit until you have some fruit (likes) on your right and some (dislikes) on your left. Put the fruit you like in front of you and say “I like apples, grapes, pineapples … etc.). Then ask a student "What fruit do you like?". Encourage him/her to say "I like …" and list the fruit he/she likes. Go around the class asking each student the question.

   

ACTIVITY: YES/NO GUESS

If your students are able to ask simple yes/no questions, a fun guessing activity can be thrown into the lesson. Hide a piece of fruit (either plastic or real) behind your back, and the students need to ask yes/no questions to guess what is it. For example:

Student: "Is it red?"

Teacher: "No, it isn't."

Student: "Is it yellow?"

Teacher: "Yes, it is."

Student: "Is it a banana?"

Teacher: "Yes, it is!"

The first student to guess correctly can eat a small piece of the fruit. If using plastic fruit the student can nibble and pretend to eat it.

CLOUSER DO "QUICK CHECK"

Time to leave the class. Make sure everything is put away and the students have gathered their belongings. Have them line up at the door and place yourself between the door and the students. For each student check one new word (e.g. hold up a color or fruit and ask "What's this?").