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Theme - Food

Grade 5- Ice Cream Man

Ice cream! Biriyani! Idly and Vada!… the list of the favorite food of the children varies like this. The class 5 unit 1 lessons revolve around the theme of food. The Ice cream man poem is for the children to read and enjoy and to bring to mind their experiences of eating the milky, creamy, tasty ice creams and to share their experience with their friends. How to make this lesson interesting for the children? What are the hot spices you would like to add to make the lesson delicious for the children? Here we present some resources for the lesson.

Transaction Module – Ice Cream Man poem

It contains a detailed description of the processes

Picture based interaction
Narration of the poem in simple words
Reading of the poem and interaction
Choreographing the poem
Using TLMs for taking lesson
Some worksheets for assessment

(Refer to the resource in the end of the article - Class 5_unit 1 poem module.doc)

What I like, what I don’t like – Activity

This activity can be a brainstorming session. Here children are encouraged to share with their friends the following things and practice it in their classroom.

What is their favorite food?
Why they like it?
How often do they eat it?

It contains

A teacher guide on how to conduct this activity.
A photo gallery of food items for the teachers
A worksheet for children to prepare them to speak.
Sample conversations to warm up

(Refer to the resource at the end of the article: What I like_children worksheet.doc, What I like_teacher guide.doc)

Video – Ice cream man song

This video is relevant for the ice cream man poem. It familiarizes children with some of the vocabularies, images used in the poem.

The link of the video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEYuDbSxM50&t=27s

Duration: 2 minutes

There is guidance for the teacher how to use this video
There is a worksheet for the children to check their listening skills after watching the video.

(Refer to the resource at the end of the article: Video song_children worksheet.doc, Video song_teacher guide.doc)

Shopkeeper and customer – Role play cum game

This is a role play in the form of a game. A group will try to guess what is there in other group’s shop. Both the shopkeeper and the customer play their roles for getting points and bonus points. The expected outcome is the children’s learning of language expressions in a context and using it.

A teacher’s guide on how to conduct the game.
The list of rules for the children to read and understand.
Worksheet for children to prepare for the role play.

(Refer to the resource at the end of the article: Role play children worksheet.doc, Role play teacher guide.doc)

Writing a recipe – Project idea, Video

Here we are suggesting a project idea that you can take in your class on the theme of food. This resource will help you in making your children to practice writing recipe of their favourite food.

It contains:

A video of making a bread omelet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19YsCUNJaps

Duration: 2.32 minutes

A guidance for teacher on how to carry forward the project idea.
A worksheet for the children to practice writing recipe.

(Refer to the resource at the end of the article: Writing recipe_children worksheet.doc)

Additional Reading Stories

This is a list of two stories related to the food theme. These stories are with beautiful illustrations and simple words. These books are published by Pratham books.