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8 Table Manners
The children are able to …
Materials:
Learning outcomes
¨ Big Book 5
 identify common tableware items;
¨ Activity Book 5
 make polite requests;
¨ Flash Cards B1 , B2 , B3 B5 -
 respond to request.
¨ Song Poster B5

Language items a bowl, chopsticks, a fork, a knife, a plate, a spoon, a ¨ Audio CD 5

cup* ¨ Oxford Reading Pen

¨ Hand Puppets
May I have ______, please? Yes, here you are.
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Values and attitudes Table manners Teacher’s Resource CD-ROM

¨ Activity Sheets B5U8 -

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Supplementary word
¨ Pictures of food (steak, soup)
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¨ Toy tableware items (a bowl, a

cup, a pair of chopsticks, a fork,

Word actions

a bowl chopsticks a fork a knife a plate a spoon a cup*

1. Revision: Concentration game

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2. Warm-up: What should Achoo use?
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3. Time to Play
- Pass them around
- Molly needs …
- Table manners
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4. Time to Say
Word game 1: What is under the handkerchief?
Word game 2 : Draw and guess
Sentence game: May I have …, please?
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5. Time to Sing
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6. Time to Do: Activity Book 5, Unit 8
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7. Wrap-up: Look and sing

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Teaching Steps:
1) Revision
Concentration game R Two sets of Flash Cards B5

 Revise the target words from Unit 7 (i.e. curry, dim sum, a hamburger, pasta, sushi, cheese* -
and a sausage*).
 Take three pairs of Flash Cards and put them face down on a table.
 Ask a child to come out and turn over two Flash Cards. If the cards are different, he/she should
turn them over again. If the cards are the same, keep them facing up. Ask the children to say
the word as they do the corresponding action together.
 Ask the other children to come out one by one and turn over two cards until all three pairs are
matched.
 You may use another three pairs of Flash Cards for the next round.

2) Warm-up
What should Achoo do? R Flash Cards B5 -
 Show the children the toy food items. Let Puppet Achoo say Yummy food! I know their R Achoo Hand Puppet
names now! Let him point to the toy food items one by one and say This is curry/dim R Toy food items
sum/a hamburger/pasta/sushi. Finally, let him ask But how do I eat them? Ask the R Toy tableware items
children if they can help Achoo.
 Prepare some toy tableware items. Invite the children to show Achoo what to use. Accept any
reasonable answers, but you may tell the children which one is more commonly used for
certain kinds of food.
 Variation: You may use the Flash Cards for the food and tableware items instead of the toys.
 You may also introduce the supplementary word ‘a cup’ in the warm-up activity.

3) Time to Play
Pass them around R Big Book 5, p.26

 Show the children the toy tableware items one by one. Say the words as you do the R Oxford Reading Pen
corresponding actions with them. R Jimmy Hand Puppet
a bowl: put both hands together with your palms facing upwards and your fingers bending R Toy tableware items
chopsticks: hold out your index and middle fingers to imitate a pair of chopsticks, pretend to
use them to pick up food
a fork: hold out your index, middle and ring fingers to imitate a fork
a knife: stretch all the fingers of one hand out straight and close together with the side of
your palm facing downwards to imitate a knife, pretend to cut something with the
‘knife’
a plate: draw the shape of a plate with your index fingers
a spoon: pretend to hold a bowl of soup in one hand and a spoon in the other hand, then
pretend to have some soup

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a cup*: pretend to hold a saucer in one hand and a cup of tea in the other hand, then pretend
to have a sip
 Ask the children to sit in a circle. Give some children a toy tableware item. Let Puppet Jimmy
hum a song as the children pass the items around.
 When Jimmy stops humming, the children who are holding the items should stand up and say
the correct words as they do the corresponding actions.

Molly needs … R Big Book 5, p.26

 Show the children the Big Book. Tell them that Molly needs the correct tableware item for her R Flash Cards B1 , B2 , B3
food and Achoo the waiter is going to help her. Let Puppet Molly hold the Flash Card for the R Achoo and Molly Hand
word ‘noodles’ and say May I have a pair of chopsticks, please? Let Achoo say Yes, Puppets

here you are. and give Molly the toy chopsticks. R Pictures of food (steak,
 Repeat the above steps with other target words. soup)

 Show the children the pictures of the food one by one. Each time, let a child come out and R Toy tableware items
use Puppet Achoo as the waiter. Invite another child to be the customer and pick a Flash Card.
 The customer should decide what he/she needs to eat with. Encourage him/her to say May I
have (a fork), please. Then Achoo the waiter should find the correct tableware item, say
Yes, here you are. and give it to the customer.
 Ensure that each child has a turn as either the customer or the waiter.
 Tell the children that it is polite to use May I have ___, please. if we want to ask for
something we need. Remind the children to say Thank you. to people who help them get the
things they need.

Table manners R Activity Sheet B5U8

 Tell the children that everyone should have good table manners when they eat. Ask the
children to do Activity Sheet B5U8 . Encourage them to tell you which pictures show good table
manners.

4) Time to Say
Word game 1 – What is under the handkerchief? R Flash Cards B5 -

 Stick the Flash Cards in a line on the board. Place a table in front of the board. R Toy tableware items

 Put a tableware item under each handkerchief. Ask a few children to come out and stand in R Handkerchiefs
front of the table.
 The children may remove the handkerchiefs on the count of three. Then they should place the
items beneath the correct Flash Cards.
 Encourage the other children to tell you whether the answers are correct or not. Ask the
children to say the words one by one as they do the corresponding actions.

Word game 2 – Draw and guess R Flash Cards B5 -

 Draw the picture of a target word on the board slowly. Let the children guess what it is and say R Activity Sheet B5U8
the word as quickly as possible.
 If the children do not know the answer, do the corresponding action as a hint to help them
guess.

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 Once the word is correctly guessed, ask a child to come out and pick the correct Flash Card.
Draw the children’s attention to the written form of the word and encourage them to say the
word as they do the corresponding action.
 If the supplementary word ‘a cup’ has been introduced, include it in the games. Let the
children put the word sticker next to the picture on p.26. Ask them to do Activity Sheet B5U8 .

Sentence game – May I have …, please? R Flash Cards B1 , B2 , B3 , B5

 Ask a few children to come out and pretend to be waiters or waitresses. Give each child a toy -
tableware item. R Pictures of food (steak,

 Put the Flash Cards and picture cards of food in a bag. Let each child draw a card from the bag. soup)

Then he/she should say May I have (a spoon), please? R Toy tableware items

 The waiter or waitress who has the correct tableware item should give it to the customer and R A bag

say Yes, here you are.

5) Time to Sing
 Stick the Song Poster on the board. Chant the lyrics with the children. Teach them the actions. R Song Poster B5

R Audio CD 5, tracks 38-40

Let’s Eat! R Oxford Reading Pen

May I have a plate1, please? (1 draw the shape of a plate with your index fingers)

Yes, here you are2. (2 pretend to take a plate from one side with both hands and
give it out)

Thank you3. thank you very much. (3 nod gratefully)

You are welcome4. (4 nod happily, placing one hand behind you back and one
hand on your belly)

1 2 3 4

 Sing the song and do the actions with the children.

 Variations: Replace the underlined word in the lyrics with other target words, e.g. ‘bowl’,
‘knife’, ‘fork’, ‘spoon’.

6) Time to Do

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 Ask the children to do Unit 8 in Activity Book 5. R Activity Book 5, pp.32-35

R Oxford Reading Pen

7) Wrap-up
Look and sing R Flash Cards B5 -
 Tell the children that you are going to sing the song Let’s Eat! together. Randomly pick a Flash R Audio CD 5, track 40
Card without showing the children what it is.
 Just before you play the CD, show the children the Flash Card. They should look at the card
and change the name of the tableware item in the first line of the lyrics.
 Choose another Flash Card and sing the song again.

Language Point to Note

‘Here you are.’ or ‘Here it is.’?

When you are passing something to a person, you say ‘Here you are.’ If you are pointing to an object or spot something
you are looking for (which is close by), you say ‘Here it is.’ If the object is far away and you are pointing to it, you say
‘There it is.’

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Unit 8 Activity Sheet 1

Name: Class: Date:

Which of the following are proper table manners? Put a tick  in the

correct boxes.

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Activity Sheet B5U8

Unit 8 Activity Sheet 2

Name: Class: Date:

What are they? Read the words. Write the correct numbers in the boxes.

1. a knife 2. a cup 3. a spoon

6.
4. a fork 5. a bowl
chopsticks

Activity Sheet B5U8

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Learning Record

Name: Class: Date:

Unit 8 Table Manners

Language items

 a bowl, chopsticks, a fork, a knife, a plate, a spoon, a cup*

 May I have ______, please? Yes, here you are.

*Supplementary word

Ratings
Remarks
   

Listening

 able to understand the target words

 able to understand the target sentences

Speaking

 able to say the target words correctly

 able to say the target sentences fluently

 able to use the target sentences in context

Reading

 able to read the target words

 able to read the target sentences

Writing

 able to write the missing letters in the target words

Comments:
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Ratings

 always  often  sometimes  rarely

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