Tuesday, September 14, 2010

03 Fit as a fiddle webquest

A. Introduction

You have just opened a new restaurant that promotes healthy food and you want to introduce two new recipes to attract customers to your restaurant.

B. Task

Prepare a menu with two recipes (food and juce) that shows the nutritional value and health benefits.

C. Process

1. Give your restaurant a name (something catchy and new)
2. Design a menu using Word and add pictures to make your menu attractive.
3. Go to:
http://www.all-healthinformation.com/allhealthyfoodrecipes/allhealthyfoodrecipes.php or
http://healthy-food-recipe.com to obtain a list of 'Healthy Food' recipes and the nutritional values
4. Go to:
http://blog.women-workout-routines.com/benefits-of-eating-healthy to get a list of the benefits of eating healthy food (summarize and take the important points only)

D. Resources

Type in all the websites used in this web quest (for copyright purposes). These include web sites for:
1. Information
2. Pictures
3. Evaluation rubrics

E. Evaluation

Copy and paste this link:
http://webquest.sdsu.edu/webquestrubric.html to obtain the rubrics for web quests.

F. Conclusion

Type in what students can do after this web quest project. For example:
a. Have an exhibition on healthy food
b. Carry out a cooking demonstration / making the juice following the recipes
c. Write an essay on the benefits of eating healthy food (use the points from the menu)

Monday, September 13, 2010

02 Podcast for Listening and Speaking

Types of transportation

This is a conversation between Cik Salmah (as the teacher) with Mary, Mala and Kamal regarding types of transportation. You can use it to teach listening and speaking. Here are some suggestions:

Listening:
1. List down the types of transportation in the clip. Categorize them into land, water or air transport
2. State the sounds they can hear in the recording
3. Prepare the script and omit a few words (for pupils to listen and fill in the blanks)

Speaking:
1. Debate about the advantages/disadvantages of land, water and air transport
2. Brainstorm on how to reduce the traffic in big cities

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