FOOD
Excuse me, do you have any oranges?

Objective

To identify common food.

Goals

• To learn the names of common food.
• To express likes and dislikes with food.
• To inquire about food in a grocery store.

Suggestions

• Focus on food learners are familiar with.
• Don't teach all the words at the same time.
• Teach words in groupings (e.g. fruit, vegetables, etc.)
• The activities in this chapter refer to kilograms and not pounds. If your learners are more familiar with pounds convert the prices to pounds. Learners will come in contact with pounds as some prices are listed only in pounds (e.g. 5 lb. bag of onions, carrots or potatoes).
• Teach abbreviations for 'kilogram', 'pound' (if you introduce it), and 'each'. Show examples of these from flyers or point them out during your trip to the grocery store.
• Collect the grocery store flyers every week. Review language that learners are familiar with. Look at the flyers weekly to reinforce learned vocabulary.
• Collect pictures of fruit and vegetables from seed catalogues, flyers and magazines.
• There are cultural differences surrounding food and offering food. It is good to explore these differences.

Activities

• Visit a grocery store. Give learners a copy of a page in this chapter with illustrations on it. Ask learners to write the price beside the picture or write the name of the item beside the picture. During your visit to the grocery store learners can also write names of other food items that are not included in this chapter.
• Make customized information gap activities by using the current local grocery store flyers and prices. See page 13.18 for an example of an information gap.
• Food Cards Have two sets of food cards. You can make these cards using recipe cards and the illustrations in this chapter. Pre-teach the question, "Do you have any bananas?" and "Yes, here you are" or "No, sorry I don't." Deal a few cards to each player. Put the remaining cards upside down in the middle of the table. One person starts by choosing a card in her hand and asking if another person has that card. She asks, "Do you have a ?" If the answer is "yes", the person gives the asker the card and she puts it together with her card on the table. If the answer is "no", the asker picks up a card from the pile of cards in the middle of the table. The idea is to get pairs of food cards. This reinforces the common question, "Do you have a ?" and reinforces common food names.