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About the unit
In this unit children learn names of food and drink related to packed lunches and breaktime snacks. They learn how to talk about what they ate and drank the previous day. They learn some food vocabulary relating to Bonfire Night, and their intercultural understanding develops through comparison with //San Fermín//. Children practise following and creating their own recipes.

Where the unit fits in
In this unit children revise and extend previously learnt language associated with food (see Units 6 and 10). They apply their knowledge of plural nouns to new contexts. They learn how to form compound sentences using simple connectives. They are already familiar with saying the date (see Unit 12) and have further opportunity to practise this. This unit could support other activities in relation to the National Healthy Schools programme.

Prior learning
It is helpful if children already know: • names of some food and drinks // • // // Me gusta(n) // and //No me gusta(n)// // • // // (Yo) prefiero // // • // // (Yo) odio // • how to say the date

New language
• Talking about what has been eaten or drunk • Expressing likes, dislikes and preferences (about food and drink) • Following and writing instructions (as in a recipe) • Preterite tense: //comer// (//Comí//, //Comiste//) and //beber// (//Bebí//) • The use of //unos//, //unas// • Plural nouns with //los//, //las//, //unos// and //unas// • Compound sentences with connectives //y// and //pero// • Imperatives: //tú// form of some regular and irregular verbs in the present tense • Phonic focus: //a//; revision of //qu//

Resources
• Picture flashcards, real or plastic items of food and drink • Sets of food picture cards • Smiling and sad face cards • Word cards for food • Word and phrase cards for jumbled sentences • A3 sheets with a picture of a famous person or character and an empty speech bubble • Two identical sets of individual cards showing numbers up to 31, days of the week and months • Photographs or film clips of Spanish fiesta celebrations • Calendar grid on an interactive whiteboard with pictures of food and drink • Ingredients or pictures to show how to make a simple recipe (a pizza recipe is available at the end of this unit) • Six sentences from the recipe printed in different colours • Multi-link cubes in corresponding colours • Writing frame for a pizza recipe • Bilingual dictionaries • Equipment and utensils for making a pizza