Thematic+Instruction

== = Thematic Instruction: Food = = =

Overview of the topic:
This unit is all about food: menu planning, grocery shopping, cooking, and eating inside and outside the home. One lesson included within this unit is about grocery shopping and the menu planning that occurs beforehand. The materials needed for this lesson include recipe sources appropriate for the proficiency levels present. These recipes were available to the students in the form of teacher-provided modified personal recipes, magazines, and online recipe databases geared towards varying proficiency levels. Other materials needed for this particular lesson include a teacher-created PowerPoint slideshow outlining the steps of grocery shopping, a Word Web poster for brainstorming ideas, a Word Bank used for entire unit, sales flyers from a local grocery store, weekly menu template, and grocery list template.

Targeted ELLs:
This thematic unit is made for adult ELLs whose proficiency levels range from beginning to intermediate.

Explanation:
This unit will help students build a knowledge base and key vocabulary pertaining to shopping, cooking, and eating inside and outside the home. During this thematic unit, students will practice and improve various language skills including comprehension, oral language, written language, and vocabulary. This will occur through various individual and collaborative activities and projects regarding food. In addition, a number of different life skills are reviewed and enhanced.

__TESOL National Standards __
Goal 1, Standard 1- To use English to communicate in social settings. Students will use English to participate in social interactions. Goal 2, Standard 1- To use English to achieve academically in all content areas: Students will use English to interact in the classroom. Goal 2, Standard 2- To use English to achieve academically in all content areas: Students will use English to obtain, process, construct, and provide subject matter information in spoken and written form.

__Tennessee ESL Standards __
ESL II. L. 1 Students will show understanding of academic vocabulary. ESL II.L.2 Students will demonstrate an understanding of various forms of oral communication. ESL II.S.2 Students will demonstrate knowledge of appropriate academic vocabulary. ESL II.S.3 Students will use appropriate language functions to obtain and give information. <span style="color: #404040; display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">ESL II.R.1 The student will develop the reading skills necessary for word recognition, comprehension, interpretation and analysis. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">ESL II.W.1 The student will develop the structural skills of the writing process.

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Lesson Objectives:
<span style="color: #404040; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">After completing this 2-hour lesson consisting of a ﻿brainstorming session, mini-lesson, group discussions, and collaborative work, the student will be able to: <span style="color: #404040; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">1. Discuss meal planning, preparing a shopping list, and grocery shopping <span style="color: #404040; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">2. Show comprehension of key vocabulary pertaining to grocery shopping through correct written and oral usage, including entries in a dialogue journal (ongoing throughout thematic unit) <span style="color: #404040; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">3. Create a written weekly menu plan based on personal favorites and dishes found in various sources depending on proficiency level <span style="color: #404040; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">4. Create a written shopping list based on the menu plan and sales flyer from a local grocery store

<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Beginning ELLs
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 * <span style="color: #404040; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">I <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> will pro﻿vide a number of linguistically modified recipes from my personal collection for the beginning ELLs to consider.
 * <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Bry-Back Manor is a website which contains a collection of recipes written purely for ELLs. There are written recipes as well as pictorial recipes.

<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Intermediate ELLs

 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">//Southern Living Magazine// has a number of recipes with basic ingredients that can be used by intermediate ELLs. A selection of magazines will be available for the students to browse.




 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">//VegNews//, //Vegetarian Ti//mes, and //Bisquick: Recipe Cards// are all magazines which contain a selection of vegan, vegetarian, and regular recipes with common ingredients as well as some that will be new to the students. These magazines will be great used for scaffolding with the help of the classroom volunteer and me. A selection of these magazines will be available to the students.



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 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">//Allrecipes.com//, //Cooking with Kids// website, and //BBC Learning English// website can be utilized by the intermediate ELLs for recipe searches. All three sites have a great selection of recipes with a range of levels for all the intermediate ELLs. Beginning ELLs can use these websites as well with the help from their intermediate peers or classroom volunteer.

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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Teacher-created PowerPoint




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Robbin Meric Graduate Student at Middle Tennessee State University in Curriculum and Instruction with a Concentration in ESL Email me at: rmericesl@gmail.com