Bonjour! Hola! ¡Buenos días!
We hope that you are all well. This week, this food matching activity might be a good thing to plan for the end of summer term as part of a celebration lesson. There is a cost element however the idea is that the children do not eat all of the food! They perhaps have one thing to taste or try at the end! Alternatively, you can have pictures of foods or a mixture of pictures and actual foods.

Have a variety of foods placed on tables around the classroom, this might include foods traditional to the country that are easier to guess such as croissants (France) and churros (Spain).

All of the foods are numbered and the children are given a list of the food words in the target language.

Children work in pairs and have to record the correct number next to each food. There need to be about 25-30 different foods/pictures to make it enough of a challenge. You can include foods they do not know by using cognates/near cognates and also encouraging them to use their language detective skills.

Children then have to use the information to create some of their own phrases and sentences using and revising opinions such as ‘J’aime and Je n’aime pas’ for example or ‘Me gusta and No me gusta!’

At the end of the lesson, children have the opportunity to try some of the foods! Then express their preference for this in the TL!

Gracias! Merci!
Sam and Kay

Sam Henderson-Tucker
Subject Leader and SLE for Primary Languages
Molescroft Primary School
St Leonard’s Road
Beverley
HU17 7HF
01482 861762