Oxford Primary Skills Unit Teaching Notes Oxford University Press 1 Lesson objectives

Writing (optional extension activity)
Ask the children to choose a charity that interests them 
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and find out about it. They then write a short text about 
the charity using the headings from the reading text: 
What is
(name of charity)
?
What does
(name of charity) 
do?
What can you do?

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Oxford Primary Skills 5 Unit 8 Teaching Notes © Oxford University Press
8
Sweet and tasty
Lesson objectives 
To read and understand a factual text about chocolate
To read and understand a recipe
To use imperatives and abbreviations
To write a recipe
Language
Mix the butter and sugar in a large bowl.
Use the icing and sweets to decorate your cakes
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Key vocabulary: 
cacao, bitter, treat, vanilla, tasty, melt, dip, 
heart, blood
More words: 
bake, cool, ingredient, mixture, oven, stir
Reading (page 32)
Before reading
1 Discuss these questions.
Ask the children to open their books at pages 32 and 33. 
• 
Ask 
Do you like chocolate?
Draw their attention to the unit 
title and ask if they can think of any other adjectives to 
describe chocolate (e.g. 
delicious, unhealthy
).
Read and discuss the questions with the class. Encourage 
• 
them to use as much English as possible, but let them use 
L1 where necessary. Ask them to justify their opinions.
2 Read and listen. 
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First read the white words in the text and explain their 
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meanings where necessary (or you could give the children 
a few minutes to look up the words in dictionaries). 
Write the words 
cacao
and 
cocoa
on the board. Explain if 
necessary that 
cacao
is the name of the tree, and that the 
beans from the tree are used to make 
cocoa
, which is used 
to make chocolate.
Model and drill pronunciation of all the words in white.