M. T. Irisqulov O‘zbekiston Davlat jahon tillari u niversiteti qoshidagi Chet

Activity 3 Work in 4 groups. Make soup.  30 min 
Objectives: to consolidate fruit/vegetable/food vocabulary; 
to give freer practice in speaking; to have fun 
In advance, prepare one flashcard of each food as follows: potato, cabbage, eggplant, onion, 
pumpkin, tomato, cucumber, carrot, pepper, peach, banana, apple, watermelon, melon, grapes, pear, 
strawberry, orange, cherry, apricot, plum, lemon, bean, bread, egg, milk, pea, rice, sausage, meat.  
Also, in advance, make three lists of items to be purchased by the three groups as shown in 
the Pupil‟s Book. 

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STEP 1: Divide the class into 4 groups. Three groups will be the shoppers. Group 4 consisting 
of four pupils will be the shop assistants.  
STEP 2: Help the shop assistants set up “stands” in the four corners of the classroom. Mix all 
the flashcards that you have prepared in advance and give 6-7 flashcards to each shop assistant. 
Shop assistants must put the flashcards on their “stands” face down. They will have a look at them 
when shoppers ask for things. 
STEP 3: Give the shoppers a set amount of “money” (e.g. will be enough printed numbers 
only: 100, 200, 500).  
Give them as much money as possible to buy their items. Also give the groups a list of items 
they must purchase as shown in the Pupil‟s Book.  
STEP 4: Revise the language to be used during shopping. Ask the pupils to open Unit 9, 
Lesson 2 and read the two dialogues between the shop assistants and the buyers in Activity 5b 
silently. 
STEP 5: When everybody is ready, on your commands „ready‟, „steady‟, „go‟, the three 
groups go to the “stalls” and begin purchasing the items in their lists. You must monitor and help if 
necessary. 
STEP 6: When each group finishes their purchase, give each group one of the three baskets 
you used in Lesson 2 to use as a cooking pot and ask them to make their imaginary soup or salad. In 
order to make soup or salad they put the purchased flashcards one by one into the basket. They can 
use their pens or pencils as ladles and spoons to stir their soup from time to time.  
STEP 7: First, demonstrate with the vegetable group how to make soup, saying: „I‟m hungry. 
Let‟s cook vegetable soup!‟ (while rubbing your empty stomach). Then say: „We need vegetables‟. 
Take one of the vegetable flashcards and say: „Yummy, I like (carrots)‟ and put it into the pot and 
stir. Then say: „Hmm. We need more vegetables‟. Invite each pupil in a vegetable group to take 
some of their vegetable flashcards and put into the pot, saying: „Yummy, I like (potatoes, tomatoes, 
etc.)‟. Keep stirring – you can also invite the pupils in the group to give the soup a stir.  
Finally, say: „The soup is ready!‟ Get everyone to hold out their bowls and ladle in imaginary 
soup. If some pupils refuse, this is fine – try and get them to say: „Yucky! I don‟t like vegetable 
soup‟. Then say: „Let‟s eat!‟ Make lots of slurping noises and say things like „Yummy!‟ and 
„Delicious!‟ and encourage everyone else to do the same. 
STEP 8: Now you can ask the groups to try making their soup/salad. Do not forget to join the 
shop assistants to the groups.