THE WEDDING PLANNER'S REPORT

 

Shared by Manuela Sánchez:

SCHOOL YEAR: 1st ESO                                                                                   SUBJECT: English   TOPIC: food for celebrations   Estimated SESSIONS:  4	LESSON OBJECTIVE:  to design a party menu, negotiate , describe an event.   CONTENTS:  different food and ingredients, language to describe a past celebration, adjectives of opinion.   Will for predictions   SKILLS: creativity, imagination and fantasy.
DESCRIPTION:    We have spent several previous lessons reading and working with the story Beauty and the Beast, we have even taken a test on it.  Now that they know the characters and how they are left ready to get married in the last chapter, we will get their reception party ready.   Our previous lessons also dealt with food and the past of the verb To Be : there was, there were, etc.   The last unit introduces the future tense: WILL.   Previous Day Individual HOMEWORK: Design Beauty and The Beast wedding invitation.      1st session:      The invitations are displayed and praised by the teacher, we imagine the wedding and the following questions are dictated and copied individually:      1.   How many guests were there? 2.   What were Beauty and the Beast wearing? 3.   What food was there? 4.   What happened after the meal?    Then the students are arranged in groups of 4, being aware of mixing different abilities students.    The groups of 4 answer the questions and design the wedding reception menu (starters, main course and dessert) which should include vegetarian dish, gluten free option and a trendy, exotic dish.    2nd session: We spend the first minutes of the class watching the following video to remind them that a vegetarian dish should appear in the menu. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R07Rdyip-3Y They spend the rest of the class working in groups preparing their presentation describing the wedding and the menu. 3rd session: We dedicate the class to listen to the groups speaking about the wedding they planned.   We finish the class writing strips of paper with their predictions about the just married couple to be included in the fortune cookies.  Some students found it difficult to create the cookies out of paper and suggested using  Mikado chocolate sticks , around which the predictions stripes can  be rolled. 4th session: To be celebrated in the first weeks of June, after making sure we got all the necessary ingredients, with a double purpose:  as part of the project and as a  Wedding Planners Staff Party. Every group will elaborate savoury snacks (spreading, mixing , no heat procedure involved), selected from their ideas for the starters in the menu of their own design in sessions 2nd and 3rd.  Enjoy the party!
RECIPE: Every group will create their own snack recipe to share with the classmates
MATERIALS:   Coloured pencils Origami paper for the fortune cookie and thin stripes of paper for the fortune/   prediction message.   Mikado chocolate sticks.   The ingredients they choose.