Food and Drinks A school-based task about integrating digital resources in learning and teaching the topic 'Favourite Food and Drink' POCA Wan Ho Kan Primary School

Background Level: KS1 Primary 2 Module: Using My Five Senses Unit: Taste – Food and drinks Aims: – Design an interesting and meaningful task for students – get more involvement in learning with e-resources Task: – Students rewrite a story and make an e-story with PowerPoint

Pre-task Read an online story about the favourite food of different animals.an online story Check students’ background knowledge by asking students the food they know.

While-task Use flashcards (set 1, set 2, set 3) to show vocabulary of different food items.set 1set 2set 3 Read an online story (The Hungry Dragon)an online story (The Hungry Dragon) Finish the activity sheet. Use the text in part 2 to review the use of past tense, plural nouns and qualifiers.activity sheet

While-task Students work in groups of 4, discuss what food they like to eat and complete a short story – The Hungry Giant Students make an e-book by adding pictures in a PowerPoint template. As students read aloud their stories, they record it by using the recording function of PowerPoint.

Post-task & extended activities Students read e-books written by other groups on the school e-learning platform. Students play a word search game to practise the vocabulary about food. (More able students can play a more difficult word search game)word search

Reflections (Advantages) Interesting task – Students participated more actively in the lesson. Handy IT tool – Copying pictures, pasting pictures, resizing pictures conveniently. – Making an audio book easily. – Suitable for junior students. They were able to use different skills in PowerPoint.

Reflections Tips / advices for teachers – Get enough time for the task - typing takes longer time – Take students’ IT skills in consideration - teach relevant IT skills in advance if necessary – Pay attention to the grouping and seating arrangement – avoid disturbing noise from other groups during recording – Choose appropriate device - use laptops with built- in microphone instead of PCs with plug-in microphone if possible

Thank you!

The Hungry Giant Story by Joe, Sunny, Horace and Andy

I want food! The hungry Giant was hungry. “I want food!” he yelled. “Hurry, hurry, hurry! I’ve got rumbles in my tummy!”

He ate one big watermelon.

He ate two big bowls of Chinese cabbage.

He ate three big bowls of spinach.

I’m still hungry! “I’m still hungry,” said the giant.

He drank four cups of tea.

He drank five glasses of orange juice and six cups of coffee.

What a good lunch! “What a good lunch,” said the giant.

Then he saw the sandwich. The giant loved sandwiches. He ate eight sandwiches.

Burp! The giant went burp! “Pardon me,” he said. Pardon me.

Yummy, yummy, yummy! I’ve got food in my tummy. The giant went away, singing “Yummy, yummy, yummy! I’ve got food in my tummy.”

The End