Theme: Food and Health
This theme focuses on healthy eating and lifestyle. Pupils say tongue twisters, discuss fast food facts, read about how food was prepared in the old days, recite a poem on being healthy, write instructions for a chicken salad wrap, study subject-verb agreement, and make a sock puppet for role-play.
Pupils say tongue twisters and discuss why fast food is bad for health.
Tongue twisters: 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers' and 'Betty bought some butter...'
Fast food is bad because it contains high salt, preservatives, and artificial sweeteners.
It contributes to increased weight and digestive problems.
It causes diabetes and heart disease.
Home-made food is fresh, easy to digest, and low in calories; fast food is tasty but high in calories.
Pupils read about how great-grandparents prepared food and a poem about being healthy.
In the old days, food tasted better and was more nutritious due to cooking methods.
Great-grandparents used charcoal, a pestle and mortar to pound spices, and wrapped fish in banana leaves.
Vegetables were freshly picked from their own gardens, so nutritional value was maintained.
Poem: 'Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.'
To be healthy: eat well, keep fit, breathe fresh air, exercise, avoid fast food and sugary drinks, listen to good advice.
Pupils write instructions for a black pepper chicken salad wrap and choose a healthy meal set.
Ingredients: tortilla bread/chapatti, vegetable oil, onion, chicken breast, black pepper, soya sauce, trench beans, carrot, lettuce.
Instructions: heat oil, sauté onion, add chicken, add pepper and soya sauce, mix well, steam or blanch beans, place filling in wrap, fold and roll, serve with sauce.
Breakfast Set A (healthy): whole grain bread cheese sandwich, salad, milk, fruit — contains protein and fibre.
Breakfast Set B (unhealthy): fried rice, fried sausage roll, fried nuggets, cola — high sugar and excessive oil.
A simple sentence has a subject and a verb. A singular subject takes a singular verb; a plural subject takes a plural verb.
Singular: He walks around the lake every morning. Kamini is at school.
Plural: They have three children. Asin and Lee Ann rarely eat fast food.
Indefinite pronouns (anyone, everyone, someone, somebody, no one, nobody) are always singular: 'Everyone has to be present.'
Collective nouns (group, team, committee, class, family) take a singular verb: 'The team practises hard.'
Correction: 'They likes...' → 'They like...'; 'Everybody know...' → 'Everybody knows...'
Pupils imagine being a character in a story and make a sock puppet.
Choose a character, describe your personality, and what you would do in the story.
Make a sock puppet: draw eyes and a mouth with a marker pen, stick wool thread as hair with double-sided tape.
Use the sock puppet to role-play a character in the story.
Fast food is high in salt, preservatives, sugar, and calories — it can cause diabetes, heart disease, and weight gain. Home-made food with fresh ingredients is healthier. 'Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.'
Subject-verb agreement: singular subject + singular verb; plural subject + plural verb. Indefinite pronouns (everyone, somebody, nobody) take singular verbs. Collective nouns (team, family, class) take singular verbs.
📝 Kosa Kata
The tongue twister 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers' uses alliteration — the same starting sound — to twist your tongue! In the old days, vegetables eaten within hours of picking kept far more vitamins than today's produce shipped over days. 'Early to bed, early to rise' is a proverb over 350 years old.
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