English in elementary school teaching materials collection 2013 the jet p rogr amme

MY SPECIAL LUNCH:
 
Experiencal Learning through Pizza Making 
Submitted by Thomas Kloepfer (Onomichi City BOE) 
Target Group
: 5th year
Difficulty Level
: Fundamentals 
Activity Objective: 
To practice the English language through hands on activities that test listening, and speaking. To 
provide lessons that are fun and challenge students to think outside of the book. 
Procedure: 
This activity is built up in the end of the semester, for my 5th grade class. My class had about 32 
students. In the previous lesson, each group of about 6 students, designed their “special lunch 
pizza.”The special lunch idea is taken from the Ego-Noto book. In the warm up class we practice 
“What would you like?, “I would like ___ and ___, please,” “Here you are” “Thank you,” “two 
please” etc. The children also voted on their favorite toppings in the first lesson. In the second 
lesson I surprised the children with being able to make their own pizza. I think that many of Ego-
Noto's lessons are good, but connecting with lesson in a deeper way lets many of the ideas 
discussed sink in. In this lesson each group came up to ask for materials, ingredients, etc. using 
what we practiced in the previous lesson. Next the students followed my directions, like next add 
____ or now roll out your pizza dough. We prepared and had the ingredients cut and ready for 
students to ask, as if they were in a restaurant making their own personal pizza. After making their 
pizza, we cleaned up the room as the pizza became ready. After we enjoyed the pizza.