What is healthy eating?

GRADE 5
Grade 5 Term 2: English First Additional Language; Weeks 3 & 4: Unit 7: Food choices: Listening and speaking: Tells of own related experiences
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What is healthy eating? Is it the same for everybody? Many cultures living in South
Africa eat very healthy food that is different to what other cultures eat. Look at the
three food choices below. Which do you think is a healthy choice?

Stinkbugs Mopane worms Chicken

Let’s have a discussion about healthy eating. Discuss these questions

in a group:
1. What are the food groups that our bodies need to stay healthy?
2. What do you know about healthy food in different cultures?
3. What kinds of food should we try to avoid eating?
4. How much do you know about the South African Food Guide?
5. What do you eat for breakfast, lunch and supper on a regular basis in your
culture?
In this unit you will:
• Listen and speak: Tell of own related experiences; classify things according to
criteria such as their purpose or capability; practise listening and speaking; learn
and perform a poem
• Practise language structures: Learn a spelling rule; proper nouns; the verb
‘to be’, prepositionsRead and view: Read information text with visuals; ask and
answer questions; do a comprehension activity on the text
• Write: Make a mind map summary of an information text; write a description.

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GRADE 5
Listening and speaking: What is healthy eating?

Grade 5 Term 2: English First Additional Language; Weeks 3 & 4: Unit 7: Food choices: Listening and speaking: Tells of own related experiences
This unit is mainly about food choices. This activity introduces the South African
Food Guide, which defines healthy eating in our country. We start off with three
images. The learners decide which one shows healthy food. The answer is that all
three are eaten by different cultural groups and they are all healthy. Divide the
learners into groups for the discussion and let them discuss the questions provided,
namely:
1. What are the food groups that our bodies need to stay healthy?
2. What do you know about healthy food in different cultures?
3. What kinds of food should we try to avoid eating?
4. How much do you know about the South African Food Guide?
5. What do you eat for breakfast, lunch and supper on a regular basis in your
culture?
If time permits, you can have report-back time on some of the answers the groups
came up with.

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