Sub-topic 2: ¡Qué rica comida!
Suggested Lexical Content
El especial del día
Los platillos regulares
El postre
La comida
La bebida
El menú
Specific Learning Objectives
After completing this subtopic, the student will be able to:
- Understand a menu.
- Create a menu.
- Speak about ingredients.
- Explain a menu.
Suggested Activities
Written and Oral Expression
Step 1
▪ With anticipation, the teacher will ask the students to select one Mestizo’s food and search for the ingredients for that specific food.
▪ Each student has to bring to the class colorful 8X11 ½ size image do the selected food and real ingredients to prepare the food.
Step 2
▪ Each student will pass to the front to present their selected food.
▪ Showing the image of the food the student has to provide, in Spanish, the name of his/her food and name the ingredients need it to prepare the food. The student has to show the ingredients meanwhile he/she name them.
Oral Comprehension and Expression and Written Comprehension
Step 1
Using a Bristol board, the teacher will show the different sections of a menu. As the following example:
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The teacher will stick the Bristol boar on the whiteboard/wall and will ask to the class which of the food presented by their classmates can be the “special of the day”; this should be in Spanish (¿Cuál de todas las comidas presentadas puede ser el platillo especial del día). The teacher can provide the translation the first time he asks.
The student can select 3 foods from the ones their classmates presented.
The teacher will write the name on the whiteboard.
The class will vote for the food raising the hands. The name of the food that gets more votes will be written under the special food section of the menu.
Under the same way it was identified the “special of the day”, the class will identify 5 of the regular dishes.
After that, the class will identify 3 drinks and 2 pastries.
Written Expression and Oral Expression and Comprehension
Step 1
One class of anticipation, the teacher will organize the class in group of threes.
The teacher will ask to each group bring to the next class one or two Bristol boards.
Step 2
Being in class, the teacher will ask to each group write, in Spanish, a funny menu in the Bristol board. This menu has to contain the following:
The name of the restaurant
Address
The special of the day
Five regular dishes
Three drinks
Three deserts
Contact number
Important note: all the content of the menu should be funny or rare; for example:
The name of the restaurant could be: La panza feliz
The name of the special of the day could be: orejas de culebra al horno
The idea of this lesson is to stimulate the learning.
Step 3
Each group will pass to the front to present their menu.
The teacher will ask question to the rest of the class based on the presentation; for example:
¿Cuál es el platillo especial del día?
¿Menciona uno de los platillos regulares?
¿Menciona una de las bebidas que mencionó el grupo?
¿Cuáles son postres?
¿Cómo se llama el restaurante?
¿En dónde está ubicado?
¿Cuáles es el número de teléfono del restaurante?
The students should respond in Spanish and in a complete sentence.
Oral Comprehension and Written Expression
Step 1
The teacher will ask to the students complete the exercise #49 of the workbook. This exercise contains a dialogue about a menu which the students have to understand. Additional to the dialogue, the students have to complete an understanding exercise based on the dialogue.
