teacher’s notes & keys

Lead-in activities
This first question should generate some discussion; encourage the students to interact as freely as possible, sharing their
opinions. The anagrams should be mainly straightforward but the sequence might be more challenging.
1. DINNER - 5th, 6.00 pm 3. LUNCH - 3rd, 1.00 pm 5. TEA - 4th, 5.00 pm
2. BRUNCH - 2 , 10.00 am
nd 4. SUPPER - 6 , 9.00 pm
th 6. BREAKFAST - 1st, 7.00 am
This is the sequence for the majority of UK/US nationals. For those, like the author, from the north of England, ‘dinner’ is used
instead of ‘lunch’ and ‘tea’ is used to describe the evening meal.

The box at the bottom contains Christmas greetings from ten countries and this can also be used as an extra lead-in activity.
Ask the learners to try to guess which country/language the phrases are - perhaps they will know or be able to guess one or
two. Later, you can write the answers on the board for the learners to match:
(left to right) Arabic, Croatian, Spanish, Irish, Iraqi, Korean, Ethiopian, Chinese (Mandarin), Russian, Eskimo (Inupik)

Before you read/First reading

Be sure to give them sufficient time to discuss and make predictions before the start to read. Give the learners a few minutes
to discuss the items and then provide some help by writing the countries on the board for them to match. Eliciting their
predictions to the board gives a clear focus to the reading task.
Christmas Logs - France Rice Pudding - Sweden Shortbread - Scotland
Fish Soup - Hungary Beetroot Soup - Poland Three Kings’ Cake - Germany

Second reading
1. False - it is popular everywhere 3. False - the fruit is dried, not fresh 5. True
2. False - dinner, not supper 4. True 6. False - rice, cinnamon, an almond
plus milk

Vocabulary 1 & 2
The matching exercise should be manageable, though not all the examples will be familiar.
1. c 2. a 3. e 4. d 5. b
The second task (adding words) could be done as a dictionary race if one dictionary per group is available.

Vocabulary 3

sweet rich

tasty simple

well-’known spicy

filling de’licious

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Speaking
The simplest and most effective way to set this up is with a demonstration of your own. Set a task (‘Do you agree?’, for
example) and tell the learners about your preferences. You can be honest or, if the mood of the class suits, you can be creative
to get a stronger response (spinach for breakfast, perhaps?). Then ask the learners what phrases you used, eliciting and
clarifying them, before asking the learners to share their own opinions.
A crossword puzzle
This is a communicative group-based exercise. One set of learners is given the ‘down’ answers and the other the across
answers; their task is to write clues for their answers, as in the examples provided. The clues are then copied onto a new sheet
of paper and are swapped; each group attempts to complete their crossword using the new clues. It is better to provide help
yourself here, rather than allow the learners to use dictionaries as the dictionaries will provide them with ready definitions,
defeating the purpose of the task!

DOWN
1. A tasty dessert. It can be in many colours and flavours. It is made with gelatine.
2. This can be RED , yellow, ORANGE or green. It is spicy and popular in HUNGARY and Mexico.
4. This is meat from a PIG.
5. A VEGETABLE very popular in Poland and IRELAND.
7. This can be white or YELLOW. You need it to make PIZZA.
8. This is GREEN and is very popular in SALADS. Tortoises love this!
10. This is a RED fruit (most people think it is a vegetable, though) and is very popular in ITALY.
11. There are many different kinds of this: chocolate, toffee and TOMATO (ketchup) for example.
ACROSS
3. Very sweet. We get it from bees.
6. This can make you CRY!
7. A very SPICY food from INDIA.
9. A Small red FRUIT, very TASTY with cream or ice-cream.
12. Meat from a PIG. Very good in scrambled eggs.
13. This comes from ITALY and there are many kinds - SPAGHETTI is the most popular.
14. BREAD usually needs this. It’s very important in CAKES and biscuits as well.
15. If you don’t like POTATOES then you can have this. It is very popular in CHINA and INDIA.

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Project
This will provide an opportunity for some artistic work from the students. Consider whether the posters could be displayed
somewhere in the school - this will be motivating and will encourage the students to produce good quality work.

Contact
The author can be contacted at the address below. All comments, suggestions and requests welcome.
petersmaterials@gmail.com

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