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| "What's your favourite flavour?" by Richard Graham What's your favourite flavour? What's your favourite flavour? What's your favourite flavour? What's your favourite flavour? I like apple. I like orange. I like lemon. I like pear. What's your favourite flavour? What's your favourite flavour? What's your favourite flavour? What's your favourite flavour? I like cherry. I like chocolate. I like mango. I like rainbow. What's your favourite flavour? What's your favourite flavour? What's your favourite flavour? What's your favourite flavour? |
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(Right click on the link below and select "save as" to download
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"What's your Favourite Flavour!" - MP3 1.6 MB
How to teach?
1. Run through fruits in a previous lesson.
2. In today's lesson ask about the weather and ask the kids what they do to cool down on a hot day. Someone is bound
to mention ice cream!
3. Ask and introduce the phrase "What's your favourite flavour?"
( or "favorite flavor" if you prefer).
4. Ask the kids to tell you their favourite flavours. Only accept answers in English ( this gets the kids thinking amongst themselves on how to say some of the words). Sometimes you may just spend the entire lesson translating things like "super fudge chocolate deluxe strawberry mountain flavour" but hey, that's cool!
5. If any of the kids happen to mention one of the flavours from the song,
put that picture card up on the board. Put it in the place it appears in
the song.
6. When the kids are bored of this ( or have miraculously picked all the
flavours in the song!), tell them you are going to introduce your favourite
flavours.
7. Show them each picture card in turn and ask them to guess what flavour it is. The red and green ones get lots of answers and English practice! Pear is the only tricky one if you are in Japan.
8. Teach each word with "I like..." for each card as you put
it on the board.
9. Test the kids every so often by asking "What's your favourite flavour?"
and pointing to a card. Throw in "What's your name?" every so
often to keep them on their toes!
10. Keep going till you've introduced "rainbow" ( lots of laughs or "ooo"s depending on the class). If you like you can point out the fact that the first few colours are the colours of the rainbow.
11. Now run through the song twice a cappella without the music, then with
the music to get them all genki and get the words firmly stuck in their
heads.
Games
12. Have a play at a game, some of the mini card games work great with this theme, especially if you can print them out in colour.
You could also try the How are you? Monster game, but this time the kids ask "What's your favourite flavour?"
and if you say "Human!" they run back to the safe wall
13. Be prepared to have "What's your favourite flavour?" sung to you in the corridors for the rest of the term.
Why this song?
One big problem Japanese teachers often have is remembering to put the "s" onto words with "I like...". For example you'll often get teachers teaching "I like cat" as a correct response to "What's your favourite pet?".
The easiest way I've found to fix this is to say that with the "s"
it means you like the thing, but without the "s" it means you
like the taste or flavour! E.g. "I like apples" means you like
apples, but "I like apple" means you like apple flavour ( for
example when talking about ice cream).
This soon stops anyone saying "I like dog" and quickly gets them
into the correct way of saying things. Of course there are exceptions,
but as a general rule it works pretty well.
So to get this firmly stuck in your head, here's a "What's your favourite
flavour?" song with the answers all in the singular!
I chose fruit flavours as the kids know most of them. There are a couple
of nice rhymes, and the first ones are all in the order of the rainbow,
which is useful for jogging the memory in science classes!
This song is still in beta or test form so there aren't any gestures yet,
but one interesting idea is to trace out the first letter of the flavour
in the air in front of you. Remember to do the demonstration with your
back to the kids, and that cherry and chocolate should be "ch"
not just "c" for some good phonics practice!
Please feel free to discuss this song on the Forum!
Picture Books
There are also the online "I love vegetables" and "What's your favourite food?" picture books for this theme.
You might also want to have a look at the "What's your favourite?" song from CD vol. 5.
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