FOOD EXPRESSIONS AND IDIOMS

FOOD EXPRESSION AN IDIOMS: MATCH WITH THE CORRECT MEANING:

1) grab a bite, 2) cut down, 3) sweet tooth, 4) doggie bag, 5) It´s on me, 6) skip, 7)pig out, 8)a side of, 9) chocaholic, 10) leftovers, 11) go dutch, 12) your eyes are bigger than your belly. a) an extra order, b) pay individually, c) eat in excess, d) passi ...on for sweets, e) eat less, f) omit, g) chocolate lover, h) to treat, i) you believe you can eat more than you actually can, j) bag used to carry remaining food home from a reataurant, k) get something to eat, l) the remaining food that coluldn´t be finished.

NAME AN ANIMAL

NAME AN ANIMAL:

This game is to be played with children from 7 to 10. All of the players stand in a circle. One of them in a the center of the circle stands with a toy animal. They toy is tossed to one of the players and the player in the center says an animal group (e.g. mammal, insect, reptile, amphibian, invertebrat ...e, bird...etc) according to the their levels of knowledge. The player who catches the toy must name an specific animal that goes with the group and toss the animal back to the thrower before he/she can count to 10. No animal can be repeated.
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The old woman who lived in a bottle

Once there was an old woman who lived in a bottle.
She had a table and a chair and cat.
There was a cup and a saucer on the table.

One day the old woman was very sad. Her cat was very sad too.

Just then a fairy came. She had a magic wand.
"What´s the matter?" asked the fairy.
"I don't want to live en a bottle", said the old woman.
" I want to live in a house".

The fairy said, " Stand up, close your eyes, turn around three times and open your eyes".
So the old woman stood up, closed her eyes, turned around three times and opened her eyes.

She was in a house. It had a chimney, a roof, two windows and a door. The old woman was very happy. The cat was very happy too.

But soon the old woman was very sad again.
The fairy came again.
"What's the matter now?" asked the fairy.
"I don't want to live in a house", said the old woman.
"I want to live in a castle".

The fairy said, " Stand up, close your eyes, turn around three times and open your eyes".
So the old woman stood up, closed her eyes, turned around three times and opened her eyes.

She was in a castle. It had a big tower with a flag on top. There were many rooms and windows. The old woman and the cat were ver happy .

But soon the old woman was very sad again.

Suddenly the fairy came again.
"What's the matter now?" asked the fairy.
"I don't want to live in a castle", said the old woman.
" I want to live in a palace"

The fairy said, " Stand up, close your eyes, turn around three times and open your eyes". So the old woman stood up, closed her eyes, turned around three times and opened her eyes.

But the old woman was not in a palace. She was not in a castle. She was not in a house. She was in her bottle again. The old woman was very sad, but the fairy did not come again. Why? Because the old woman was too greedy.

From " Telling tales in English" Wendy Superfine, Megan James, SBS publishing.

Multiple Intelligences and careers

There are different types of intelligences and according to them there are certain professions.

LINGUISTIC: Poets and literacy stylist. Lyric composers.
LOGICAL - MATHEMATICAL: Mathematicians.
SPATIAL: Artists, inventors, film directors, surgeons, engineers, plane pilots, chess players, architects.
MUSICAL: Composers, instruments players.
KINESTHETIC - CORPORAL: Athletes, dancers, gymnasts, jugglers, actors, mimes.
INTERPERSONAL: Politicians, novelists, drama writers, statisicians, lawyers, psychologists and psychiatrists, journalists, leaders, businessmen,teachers.
INTRAPERSONAL: Mystics, revolutionaries, adventurers, telepathics, psychics, philosophers.

“IT'S NOT HOW SMART YOU ARE -
IT'S HOW YOU ARE SMART!”Based on Teacher´s Magazine.

Life is color

Using your emotional intelligence

If you happen to have a group with students you have known for along time and they know among themselves too. There is a good excersice to begin the class as a warm up based on the book EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE BY DANIEL GOLEMAN. Each student will say a number from 1 to 10 which best represents his/her feeling or mood an ...d explaining why. Sometimes it is a good way to feel relieved and relax.

Alejandra Vecchiarelli

Tasting experience

You can do this activity as I did with my students. Not only children but adolescents and adults. They will enjoy the class because they will find it different and suprising. In order to get the difference of these adjectives ( sweet, salty, spicy, sour) you can bring food to taste it. Before this, you may give examples in order to get the meaning of the adjectives they do not know. Then, you cover student´s eyes and you give them a bit of lemon, a candy, pepper, salt or something salty such as snack ...etc. Students must guess the food they are tasting or al least the category. Once they discover they must provide a sentence with the corresponding adjective. For example: Lemon is sour, pepper is spicy...etc.