Friday, 15 May 2015

Web Based Lesson Plan

MASTER CHEF JUNIOR
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FORM: Two

LEVEL: Intermediate

TIME: 70 minutes

AIMS:

1. To find specific information on the websites.
2. To practice process writing using sequence connectors associated with recipes.

LANGUAGE FOCUS:

Writing - process writing

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS:

A computer per group of 2-3 students with an Internet connection, and a Web Browser.

Website: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFvHVdy9-uM, www.spatulatta.com, studentrecipes.com

PREPARATION:

1. Locate sites associated with food and recipes.
2. Using the information on the sites, prepare the worksheets.

PROCEDURE:

Set induction (5minutes)
1. Teacher greets the students.
2. Teacher starts the lesson by asking  the students about their favourite food and if they have ever tried making the food themselves by following its recipe.
3. Teacher introduces the topic of the day: Process Writing.

Development (60 minutes)
Activity 1
1. Teacher explains to the students about process writing and the sequence connectors that can be used in process writing (first, second, next, then, and finally), and write them on the white board.
2. Teacher then shows the students a video on the process of making nutella ice cream.
3. Based on the video, teacher asks the students to complete worksheet 1. The answers can be found from the video.
4. After they are done with Activity 1, teacher checks the answers together with the students.

Activity 2
1. For the following activity, students are required to form groups consist of 2-3 students per group.
2. Each group will be using one computer each. Teacher asks the students to open the browser and go to the suggested websites. Then, browse through the recipes that can be found in the websites.
3. They will now pick any recipe that they like and would like to try. They can improvise the recipe and make a new one using their own creativity.
4. To make it easy for the students, the recipe must be in only five simple steps.
5. They need to write the recipe in worksheet 2 that is given by the teacher. They are given 15 minutes to create their own recipe.
6. When they are done with the task, teacher asks each group to present their recipes in front of the classroom.

Conclusion (5minutes)
1. Teacher summarizes the lesson to the students.
2. Teacher assigns the students with a follow-up activity.

Follow-up activity
Students are asked to write an essay on the recipe that they have created in their exercise book. In order to make the essay more interesting, students have to write a story of how the recipe is created.




Thursday, 14 May 2015

Poem

As I look to the sky I can clearly see

The glorious sun beaming down on me

The clouds go from thick to a whispy thin

To miss such a view is a terrible sin

As I look around this spectacular place I feel a smile take over my face

The fields of lush green grass are dotted

With beautiful wild flowers the bees have spotted

Busily flying from flower to flower

Pollinating before a shower

The distinctive red of a poppy field

To a tarmac strip they have to yield

The man-made pathway cuts through nature's canvas

Taking us to far flung places around us

To a built up concrete industrial machine

Where places like this are rarely seen

So whenever you visit the countryside

Take a few moments to put aside

So you will remember what you have seen

Before you return to the not so green.