Tasks

Skills and Strategies

Language forms and communicative functions

Text-types

Generic skills/ values & attitudes

Pre-reading activities:
Vocabulary building
Matching different kinds of menus with pictures of different kinds of restaurants
(4.1.doc)

• Reading
• Writing
• Class discussion

Learning vocabulary in categories:

1. Food items
2. Kinds of restaurants

Menus

Study skills

• Peer and self assessment

Language
development
strategies

• critical thinking
• communicative skills
• collaborative learning

Reading (textbook):
Eating Out (p.22, 23)

• Reading

• Recognising and learning the forms and functions of:

1. Direct speech
2. "Would you …." to make polite requests or offers
3. "I would like to…infinitive" and "Could I have…."to make polite requests

• Story
• Dialogues

Post-reading activities:
Comprehension questions (p.24)

• Reading
• Writing

Story

Language Focus (p.24):

1. Using ‘would’ to make a polite request or offer
2. Using ‘could’ to make a polite request
3. Completing grammar worksheets and exercises for consolidation

(4.2R.doc)

• Reading
• Writing

1. Using "Would you …." to make polite requests or offers
2. Using "I would like to + infinitive" and "Could I have…." to make polite requests

Role Play
Students take the role of waiters and customers in two different kinds of restaurants (fast-food shop, western restaurant)
(4.3.doc)

• Reading
• Writing
• Speaking
• Listening
• Group Work

• Practising and consolidating the language items learned in the unit

1. Direct speech
2. "Would you …." to make polite requests or offers
3. "I would like to + infinitive" and "Could I have…." to make polite requests

• Learning vocabulary in categories:

1. Adjectives describing food (taste, smell, texture, etc.)
2. Adjectives describing personal feelings

Study skills

• Peer and self assessment

Language
development
strategies

• Critical thinking
• Communicative skills
• Collaborative learning

Reading (2nd piece)

• Dr. Chan’s advice on healthy eating(4.4R.doc)
• Forms and functions of which-clauses (4.5.doc)

• Reading

• Learning some reading strategies: Guessing the meaning of vocabulary by looking for definitions and signal words (like, such as, for example, e.g., means)
  ¨Recognising and learning the forms and functions of which-clauses

An article

Mini Research:
How much do you know about different kinds of restaurants?

• Taking photos of different kinds of restaurants and
  writing captions for photos
• Carrying out mini research on different restaurants
• Doing a presentation in front of the class.
  (different groups are assigned to different kinds of restaurants)

(Mini Research.doc)

• Mini Research
• Group work
• Reading
• Writing (WS 4.8)
• Speaking
• Listening
• Peer assessment

• Captions

Pre-task 1:

• Comparing the prices and special offers of 4 restaurants
• Choosing a favourite restaurant and talk about it.

(4.6R.doc)

• Reading
• Writing
• Speaking
• Listening
• Class discussion

• Comparing things using comparative adjectives and superlative adjectives

• Menus

Study skills

• Peer and self assessment

Language
development
strategies

• Critical thinking
• Communicative skills
• Collaborative learning

Pre-task 2:

• "Choosing /inventing a product. Drawing a picture and designing a slogan for it to introduce the product to classmates".

(4.9.doc)

• Group work
• Writing
• Speaking
• Listening
• Class presentation

• Making persuasion
  by providing convincing reasons; expressing with appropriate tones and language

• TV
• commercials
  slogans

Main Task (Assessment task-process writing)

• Writing an article for the school magazine to recommend schoolmates to go to a restaurant.

(4.10w.doc)

• Writing

• Making persuasion
  by providing convincing reasons; expressing with appropriate tones and language

• persuasive article