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Stay-at-home RESOURCE PACKS

For

Year 1 and YEAR 2 THEME:

SHOPPING FOR FOOD Choice of theme:

For the coming two weeks, we will still focus on

FOOD, shopping for food in particular. The choice of

the theme ‘Shopping for Food’ emerged from two young girls that go by the name of Louisa

and Emma. They really enjoyed our first resource pack and to show how much they

appreciated it, they even shared a video with us of them making a yummy butter and

marmalade sandwich. So, we thought we could ask them what our next focus should be and

they both agreed it should be ‘Shopping for food’. I hope Louisa and Emma and all other

children enjoy this resource pack as much as we enjoyed creating it. Please do send us some

photos, videos or feedback via email (pamela.zerafa@ilearn.edu.mt) and with your permission

we’ll upload them on our website (http://taleinmalta.wixsite.com/elrc/videos-audio-clips-

and-feedback) so other children can enjoy them too.

Hugs,

Pam, Mary Jude and Urieth

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cleanindoor with AC

owned by a companypay using cash or credit card

prices are fixed and more expensive

sell frozen foodvaried products

open all day

dirtyoutdoor

different sellerspay by cashhaggle price

fresh producesell from their own

farmsopen only in the

morning

DAY 1: SPEAKING

Ask your child: Can you mention any shops we go to regularly or maybe not so frequently? (e.g. clothes shop, ice cream shop, hardware store, fish shop and so on)

Now, ask them: Where do we usually buy our groceries and green groceries? (possible answers could be, from the grocery store or the supermarket). Tell them that sometimes, people shop at the local (farmers’) market and sometimes they shop at the supermarket. Ask them to compare and contrast the following two pictures and tell them to spot the differences. Encourage them to spot as many as they can. Use the Venn diagram below to help you.

SUPERMARKET OPEN-AIR MARKET

Ask the child: How are some people shopping these days because they cannot go out? (Online shopping) Show them this picture and discuss with them the advantages and disadvantages of online shopping.

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DAY 2: LISTENING

Now, tell the child that some people enjoy buying different groceries from the farmer’s market. Tell them to look at the nursery rhyme below and together read and sing it. You may wish to watch it via this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYeNteLMHDE . If you do, encourage the child to talk about what they can see in the video clip and how it is different from the one below.

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DAY 2: READING

Now, encourage your child to read the nursery rhyme with you again. The child may wish to read parts of this nursery rhyme, particular words like: fat, pig, jig, hog, jog, bun. Encourage them to come up with other similar words that finish with –at, -ig, -og, - un and rhyme with FAT, PIG and HOG. Now ask them to read the following words:

FAT PIG HOG cat wig bog hat rig jog sat fig dog rat big log

Encourage your child to draw

something in this space and to

colour and design it in any way they like. Ask them to

describe it to you.

They can also write their own

line in the nursery rhyme. They can use some of the

words above.

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DAY 2: WRITING

Now let’s write some important (high frequency) words found in the nursery rhyme:

to

buy

home

again

market

plum

done

is

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DAY 3: READING

Ask your child: What nursery rhyme did we read yesterday? (To Market To Market) We find a lot of fresh fruit and vegetables at the market. Encourage your child to read the names of each one. Encourage them to go look for these items at home and to mention others that aren’t listed here.

Interesting fact: Did you know that a tomato is actually

a fruit? However, we usually use it as a vegetable!

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Now, look at these pictures of open-air markets. Ask your child to complete these two tasks. Task 1: Write the number near the fruit and vegetable in the picture:

1) for e.g. aubergine 2) cauliflower 3) water melon 4) pineapple 5) bananas 6) apples 7) oranges

Task 2: Read the sentences. True () or False ()?

1) There are a lot of people.

2) They are selling clothes.

3) They are selling toys.

4) They are buying fruit.

5) Children are eating carrots.

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DAY 4: READING

Now, look at this picture of a supermarket in England. Now ask your child to complete these two tasks. Task 1: Put a tick () next to the items you can buy from this section of this supermarket. Tick () the ones you can only see in the picture above.

fruit books meat

furniture biscuits medicine

vegetables toys clothes

milk cars stationery

eggs butter flour

Task 2: Look at the price tags. Now match the price with the things you can buy at this supermarket.

How much is… PRICE How much is a coconut? It’s 55p. How much is a packet of chocolate biscuits? It’s 75p. How much is a carton of eggs? It’s 95p. How much is the packet of flour? It’s 90p. How much is the butter? It’s £1.

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DAY 6: LISTENING

Tell your child that they will be listening to a dialogue between a mother and a daughter and they are discussing the shopping list. Whilst the adult reads the text below, please ask the child to do the tasks on the next page. The adult might wish to play the recording which can be accessed via this link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vb_DlGFAJGDgHKRCn3-etA0nzyip4n1Y/view?usp=sharing

Mum: Hello? Amy: Hi, Mum. It’s Amy. Dad and I are here at the supermarket. We’ve got your list,

and we’re doing the shopping, but we’ve got some questions. Mum: No problem, Amy. What do you want to know? Amy: We’ve got the crisps and biscuits for my school snacks, but Dad and I don’t know

what type of oil to buy. Mum: Get olive oil. I always cook with olive oil because it’s the healthiest type of oil. Amy: Right, olive oil. Now, should we get orange juice or fizzy drinks? Mum: Get both. We’ll have orange juice for breakfast and fizzy drinks with dinner

tonight. Amy: Speaking of dinner … you’re making beef with baked beans, right? Mum: Yes, that’s right. Beef with baked beans is your dad’s favourite meal. It will be

ready in half an hour, so please hurry. And don’t forget the carrots. I want carrots for the salad. In fact, get about half a kilo of carrots.

Amy: Right, carrots and peppers are on the list and Dad’s getting them right now. What about dessert? What’s for dessert?

Mum: Would you like fruit salad or watermelon? Amy: Watermelon is a great idea! Uh, Mum, I love watermelon but I don’t know how to

choose a good one. Mum: Ask your dad to show you. He knows how to choose a perfect watermelon. Amy: Dad, can you help me choose a watermelon? Mum, we’re getting the watermelon.

We’ll just pay and come right home. Mum: Get some popcorn, too, so we can have popcorn and watch a film on TV after

dinner. Amy: OK. See you soon. Mum: Bye!

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You may wish to discuss the tasks together first and make sure the child understands the words in the text.

Listen to Amy talking to her mum. Write the list of food she and her father are going to buy at the

supermarket. Write the shopping list on the paper bag.

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DAY 7: READING

Encourage your child to write a shopping list. They may wish to copy the words from the list or from others mentioned earlier on in the week. Tell your child that you wish to make soup and a fruit salad. Ask them to write a list of groceries they would need to make a vegetable soup (they can refer to the story “TO Market To Market”). Tell your child: We are going to make a vegetable soup. Read the list of ingredients below and write the list of vegetables you need to buy to make this vegetable soup: Remind them what was done last week and how you discussed what a recipe looks like and where they need to look to find ingredients. Ask questions like: What three things does a recipe have? (list of ingredients, equipment and method)

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ANSWERS

Reading Tasks

Listening Task

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