Frutas / Fruits

Lesson Outline:

1. Teach the fruit vocabulary
2. Play «Fruit Fetch»
3. Play «Fruit Rope Jump» game
4. Read classroom reader «Fruit Salad»
5. Teach structures «What fruit do you like?» and «I like~»
6. Play the fruit wall touch game
7. Sing the «What Fruit do you Like?» song
8. Do the «Color Lots of Fruit» worksheet
9. Do «Fruit Shopping» activity

 

New Learning and Practice:

1. Teach the fruit vocabulary

If you can, get small plastic fruit, or print pictures or fruit, real fruit from the (FRUTERO) or ask students to bring a fruit from home. . Put the 8 fruit into a small box before the class. Now take out the box and shake it – the rattling sound will instantly alert your students. Open the box and pull out a fruit. Ask

 

«What’s this?» Elicit / Teach the name and chorus x3. Now mime biting the fruit and chewing, and then say «Yummy!». Then hold the fruit in front of each student to let them take an imaginary bite. Encourage them to say «yummy!» or even «yuk!». Repeat with the other fruit.

2. Play «Fruit Fetch»

For this activity all students will need a a fruit. (Use yhe  fruits flashcards and make copies so all student have one) fruit pieces for each student. Throw the fruit flashcards around the classroom. Model the activity: say «(Your name) give me a/an (apple)». Get up, find the fruit and put it into the box. Now hold the box and instruct a student to pick up a fruit, bring it back to you and put it in the box. Do for each student in the class.

3. Play «Fruit Rope Jump» game

Take a length of rope, and lay it across the floor at one end of the classroom. On one side place the fruit cards and the box. Have your students line up on the other side of the rope. Model: «(Your name), put the (apple) in the box». Run up to the rope, jump over the rope (say «Jump!») select the correct fruit and put it in the box. Now instruct each student to do the activity.

Variations on the «Fruit Rope Jump» game: for older students you can have two students holding the rope up whilst the other students jump over. Each time rise the height of the rope a little bit to make it increasingly difficult. Also, you can have limbo rounds where students have to limbo under the rope.

4. Read classroom reader «Fruit Salad»

This classroom readers ties in perfectly with the fruit your students have been learning – it’s
a fun story which will help your students to internalize the key fruit vocabulary. Before class, download and print off the reader «Fruit Salad». As you go through each page, point to the pictures and let your students shout out what fruit they see, for example:

Teacher: What fruit is this? (pointing at the green apple on page 3) Students: It’s an apple!
Teacher: Yes, that’s right! And what color is it?
Students: Green!

Teacher: Right! Good job! (reading from the story) … «Along came an apple …».

Get the students really involved in the story by asking lots of questions (e.g. eliciting the fruit and their colors) and try to get everyone shouting out the frame «They pushed and they heaved. But it was too heavy!».

 

5. Teach structures «What fruit do you like?» and «I like ~»

Sit everyone down to watch you. Take out the 8 plastic fruit. Take one
and say «Yummy! I like (apples)!». Put it to your right side. Take
another fruit and do the same. Next, take a fruit and say «Yuk! I don’t
like (melons)». Put it to your left. Keep going with the rest of the fruit
until you have some fruit (likes) on your right and some (dislikes) on
your left. Put the fruit you like in front of you and say “I like apples, grapes, pineapples … etc.). Then ask a student «What fruit do you like?». Encourage him/her to say «I like …» and list the fruit he/she likes. Go around the class asking each student the question.

6. Play the fruit wall touch game

Before class print off pictures of the 8 fruit onto A4 paper (we have A4 size fruit flashcards at http://www.eslkidstuff.com/esl-kids-lesson-plans.html). Hold up each picture, elicit the fruit and walk around the room taping them to the walls (at a height that your students can reach). Now model the game: Say «What fruit do I like?» and then run around the room touching each fruit that you like saying «I like ~» as you touch each fruit. Now get all of your students to stand up and say to them «What fruit do you like?». Allow them to run around the room touching fruit (encourage them to say «I like~» as they touch).

7. Sing the «What Fruit do you Like?» song

For the first time you play the song, have everyone sit down and watch you. Stand in the middle of the room and sing / clap along to the song. Once the song reaches the fruit vocab, point the A4 pictures on the wall for each fruit as it is sung. Next, get everyone to stand up and sing along, pointing the pictures. You can also stick our song poster on the board to help.

8. Do the «Color Lots of Fruit» worksheet

Give out the «Color Lots of Fruit» worksheet to each student. Have everyone color in the fruit pictures. Then model the task – hold up your worksheet and say «What fruit do you like?». Circle the fruit you like, each time saying «I like (apples), etc.». Then get the class to do the same. Circulate and check and ask questions (What fruit do you like?).

9. Do «Fruit shopping» activity

This takes a little bit of pre-class organizing but it’s well worth it – your kids will love this activity!

Organize so your class can practice asking a fruit vender for fruit using English. Most (FRUTEROS) are available or close to school. If you speak to students prior they may come prepared and bring money if this is allowed.

Educando recommends that you use the following sentence structure when doing this activity as stated in the curriculum.

Bananas are cheaper than apples.

Take this time to explain the word CHEAP and the reason why local products are less expensive than foreign.

Wrap Up:

1. Assign Homework: «Match up the Fruit»