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S1 Topic 2 A Balanced Diet Explanatory Notes for Teachers Level: Topic:

S1 Balanced Diet

Supporting Teaching Materials:

Students’ worksheet

Students’ Prior Knowledge Before this ELA unit, students have related life experience about healthy eating habits. They should have learnt the words about this unit through the medium of Chinese. Aims and Objectives I.

Content Objectives

After the ELA activities, students should be able to use English to: 1.

describe good practice in relation to a balance diet and

2.

give examples of food that gives necessary nutrition for a balanced diet.

II.

Language Objectives

After the ELA activities, students should be able to: 1.

understand and use the English terms related to this topic (e.g., food, milk, rice, meat, green vegetables, food pyramid, contain, nutrition, protein, fat, carbohydrate, fat, mineral, vitamin, healthy diet, unhealthy diet, ill-balanced-feeding, fast food);

2.

understand and use the English expressions for discussing how to have a balanced diet, e.g., -

3.

A food pyramid can help us to have a balanced diet. We should eat more plant foods, such as fruits, vegetables and whole grains. We should eat less fatty foods. We should eat less fast food and junk food. We should eat nutritious food.

understand and use the English expressions for discussing different kinds of nutrition we can get from different kinds of food, e.g., -

Milk contains protein. We can get protein from milk. Rice contains carbohydrates. We can get carbohydrates from rice. Seafood contains minerals. We can get minerals from seafood. Meat contains fats. We can get fats from meat. Green vegetables contain vitamins. We can get vitamins from green vegetables.

We know different kinds of food contain different kinds of nutrition for our health.

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Procedure: 1. The teacher should first help students to review their prior knowledge of the topic of balanced diet which they have studied through the medium of Chinese. 2. The teacher should review the key English words for the unit, perhaps by using visual material such as that available in the Wikipedia page for the ‘food guide pyramid’ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_guide_pyramid 3. The teacher can then present the worksheet A Balanced Diet and show students how to group the words according to whether they refer to food or nutrition. This helps students understand the semantic relationships between the new words. 4. The teacher then uses the table in the worksheet to present sentences about food and nutrition to the students. Then, the teacher gives an example of other ways to express the same ideas. Expression 1:

Food contains different kinds of nutrition.

Expression 2:

We need a kind of nutrition from certain kind of food.

After completing the gap fill task in the worksheet, students can move on to Task 1. 5. In this task, students give the correct words for (1) the name of the food type shown in the pictures and (2) the kind of nutrition provided by the food type. Students then select the words appropriate to complete the missing information in the text about the food pyramid. 6. To consolidate what students have learned, and give them practice in constructing sentences, the teacher should then move on to Task 2. In this task, students are asked to use the expression learnt to form sentences with correct word order.

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A Balanced Diet 1. Vocabulary We can put the vocabulary we have learned in this unit like this: A. Food contains nutrition 奶類

milk

肉類

meat

米

rice

綠色蔬菜

green vegetables

海鮮類

seafood

飲食金字塔

food pyramid

蛋白質

protein

碳水化合物

carbohydrate

脂肪

fat

礦物質

mineral

維他命

vitamin

快餐

fast food

B. Nutrition

C. Unhealthy diet 偏食

an unbalanced diet

2. Useful sentences We know different kinds of food contain different kinds of nutrition for our health.

A food pyramid tells us how to have a balanced diet.

Food

contains

Different kinds of nutrition

milk

contains

protein

rice

contains

carbohydrates

seafood

contains

minerals

meat

contains

fats

green vegetables

contains

vitamins

We can also tell what kinds of nutrition we can get from the kinds of food we eat.

We can get

□□□□□□□

from

milk.

□□□□□□□□□□□□□

from

rice.

□□□□□□□□

from

seafood.

healthy □□□□

from

meat.

vitamins

from

green □□□□□□□□□□

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Task 1: Short paragraph

Write down the words about different kinds of food and different kinds of nutrition you learned about in this unit.

Food Nutrition

Select the most appropriate words for the missing parts of the text below.

The food pyramid tells us how to have a balanced diet. We get

from milk e.g.______ and _______. We need __________

can also get minerals from______________

_______

from rice. We

e.g. fish. We get some healthy

from meat.

We should take more green _____________

because they are rich in

vitamins.

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Task 2: Short Answers The food pyramid tells us how to have a balanced diet. How can we get enough nutrition from what we eat? Form correct sentences to answer to the question.

get/we/milk/from/protein/can

we/carbohydrate/rice/need/from/

we/fat/meat/need/from/also

minerals/contains/seafood

vitamins/contain/green vegetables/because /more/vegetables/we/eat / can

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Answers A Balanced Diet 3. Vocabulary We can put the vocabulary we have learned in this unit like this: A. Food contains nutrition 奶類

milk

肉類

meat

米

rice

綠色蔬菜

green vegetables

海鮮類

seafood

飲食金字塔

food pyramid

蛋白質

protein

碳水化合物

carbohydrate

脂肪

fat

礦物質

mineral

維他命

vitamin

快餐

fast food

B. Nutrition

C. Unhealthy diet 偏食

an unbalanced diet

4. Useful sentences We know different kinds of food contain different kinds of nutrition for our health.

A food pyramid tells us how to have a balanced diet.

Food

contains

Different kinds of nutrition

milk

contains

protein

rice

contains

carbohydrates

seafood

contains

minerals

meat

contains

fats

green vegetables

contains

vitamins

We can also tell what kinds of nutrition we can get from the kinds of food we eat.

We can get

protein

from

milk.

carbohydrates

from

rice.

minerals

from

seafood.

healthy diet

from

meat.

vitamins

from

green vegetables

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Answers Task 1: Short paragraph

Write down the words about different kinds of food and different kinds of nutrition you learned about in this unit.

Food

milk

rice

seafood

Nutrition

protein

Carbohydrates minerals

meat

green vegetables

fats

vitamins

Select the most appropriate words for the missing parts of the text below.

The food pyramid tells us how to have a balanced diet. We get protein

from milk e.g._cheese_ and _yoghurt__. We need _cabohydrates_

rice. We can also get minerals from__seafood__

healthy _fats_

from

e.g. fish. We get some

from meat.

We should take more green _vegetables__

because they are rich in

vitamins.

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Answers Task 2: Short Answers The food pyramid tells us how to have a balanced diet. How can we get enough nutrition from what we eat? Form correct sentences for the answers to the question.

We can get protein from milk. get/we/milk/from/protein/can We need carbohydrate from rice. we/carbohydrate/rice/need/from/ We also need fat from meat. we/fat/meat/need/from/also Seafood contains minerals. minerals/contains/seafood We can eat more green vegetables because vegetables contain vitamins. vitamins/contain/ green vegetables/because /more/vegetables/we/ eat/ can

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