Topic Based Learning: Food

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🍉 Topic Based Learning: Food 

This post has the objective to introduce the topic of Food in the Upper Primary Education Stage working in a Topic Based Learning methodology. With this methodology we pretend to cover some of the basic skills that our students need to enhance in their ESL classes. Along four individual post, our students will work on:

- Reading comprehension
- Writing skills
- Listening comprehension
- Speaking skills

We find necessary to comment that all activities have an introductory step in order to facilitate the students' learning process. All activities have the connecting topic of food, and the main objective is that students use their critical thinking to auto-analyze the typo of food habits they follow in order to improve to healthy food habits. 

The order of the activities should be done in order of difficulty: 
1)  Listening task, where students can learn about food groups and practice food vocabulary.
2) Reading task, where students can gain vocabulary and useful expression related to food habits. 
3)  Writing task, where students can improve their creativity by doing their own research to accomplish the final writing task.
4)  Speaking task, where students can put all what they have learned into practice while working on their pronunciation and communicative skills. 

We truly hope the content and post created are useful for your classes. 
Please be kind to send us your comments. 

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