Tasks
Task 2: Posters for Promoting Healthy Eating
Part A: Designing a poster
The Health Club has decided to design some posters to promote healthy eating. The posters should contain some tips on how fellow schoolmates can follow a healthy diet and how they can improve their eating habits. As members of the Health Club, you work in groups and each group will produce one poster.
You have downloaded some useful information on how to design posters, which includes the following guidelines and a sample poster. Study them carefully. Before designing your own poster, collect or pay attention to posters from various sources to get more ideas.
Sample poster from a website
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Now work in groups of four. Discuss and decide on the content of the poster.
Based on the guidelines and your observations of posters, draft your own in the space provided below.
Part B: Producing and displaying posters
Evaluate and improve your draft by making use of the feedback sheet – Designing and producing a poster – on p.39.
Show and introduce your finished posters to your classmates. The class should select the best 4-6 posters, based on the items in the feedback sheet. Then post them up in school to promote healthy eating.
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Feedback Sheet
Task 2 (Part A): Designing and producing a poster
Group:
Tick the appropriate box and add comments below.
Content Well Done Satisfactory Needs Improvement
Ÿ The title or slogan is appropriate □ □ □
Ÿ Suggestions for healthy eating are given □ □ □
Ÿ Information is accurate □ □ □
Ÿ Artwork is appropriate □ □ □
Organization
Ÿ Ideas are well organized □ □ □
Layout
Ÿ Size of words and spacing are appropriate □ □ □ Ÿ Pictures are large enough and eye-catching □ □ □ Language & Style
Ÿ Meaning is clearly expressed □ □ □
Ÿ Language is simple and easy to understand □ □ □
Ÿ Choice of words is appropriate □ □ □
Grammar
Ÿ The poster is accurate in the use of
– imperatives □ □ □
– punctuation □ □ □
– spelling □ □ □
Other Comments:
*Feedback given by
*This feedback sheet can be used for self-, peer and/or
teacher assessment. The person who provides the ___________________
feedback may put his/her name down if necessary. (Name)
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Task 3: A Healthy Recipe
The Health Club is going to organize a healthy recipe competition during the Health Week.
All students are invited to take part in the competition. Interested students should devise a healthy recipe and write an explanation why the recipe is good for health. The best recipes will be compiled into a booklet for the reference of all schoolmates.
Part A: Learning through games
Your Home Economics teacher likes the idea of the recipe competition. She has prepared four games to help the students write their own recipes. Now play the following games in pairs.
Game 1: How to make Sushi Rice (Matching)
Work with your partner to match the steps with the pictures. Put the correct number in the boxes provided in the pictures.
Ingredients:
cooked short grain rice 1 large bowl
rice vinegar 1/2 cup
sugar 2 tbsp
salt 1/2 tbsp
Method:
1. Put cooked rice into a large bowl.
2. Mix rice vinegar with sugar and salt.
3. Pour rice vinegar onto the rice.
4. Fold gently to combine.
5. Cover the bowl with a damp towel.
Tip:
To tell people what to do, begin your sentence with the base form of a verb.
e.g. put, mix, pour, fold and cover.
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Game 2: How to make California Rolls (Reordering)
The steps in the following recipe are in the wrong order. Work with your partner to rearrange the steps in the correct order. Put numbers 1 – 7 in the correct boxes.
Ingredients:
a few sheets of nori seaweed (roasted seaweed) a bowl of sushi rice
a few avocado slices some imitation crab meat a few cucumber strips some toasted sesame seeds a little wasabi
a few tablespoons of soy sauce
Method:
Finally, cut the rolls into pieces and sprinkle sesame seeds on top.
Then, spread a thin layer of sushi rice (about 1/4 inch thick) on the seaweed and leave about an inch at the ends.
Serve with wasabi and soy sauce.
Begin at the bottom end. Roll the seaweed over until you reach the end of the seaweed.
Next, put an avocado slice, some imitation crab meat and a cucumber strip on top of the rice near the bottom edge of the nori seaweed.
First, place a sheet of nori seaweed on a bamboo mat.
Make more rolls with the remaining ingredients.
Tip:
You can use words like first, next, then and finally to tell the order for doing things.
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Game 3: Ways of cutting and cooking (Memory Game)
No. of players: 2
Materials: 2 sets of cards (see p.47 – p.50)
Set A Ways of Cutting
Set B Ways of Cooking
Cut Chop Bake Boil
Peel Dice Steam Stir- fry
Mince Slice Shallow- fry Deep- fry
1. Shuffle together the two sets of cards.
2. Place the cards on the table with the pictures/words facing down.
3. Arrange the cards evenly in 4 rows.
4. Players take turns to turn over two cards at a time. If the two cards match with each other (i.e. a picture matches with a corresponding word), the player can keep the cards. If the cards do not match, the player has to put them back facing down.
5. The player who gets the most cards wins.
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Game 4: Know more about food groups (Memory Game)
No. of players: 2
Materials: 2 sets of cards (see p.51 – p.52)
Set A Names of foods
Set B
Names of food groups
Beef Bread Fat and Sugar Group x 2
Butter Carrots Meat and Protein Group x 2
Cheese Chocolates Milk Group x 2
Milk Noodles Fruit and Vegetable Group x 2
Strawberries Tofu Grain Group x 2
1. Shuffle all the cards in Set A and place them facing down on the table. Arrange the cards evenly in 2 rows.
2. Repeat step 1 with the cards in Set B.
3. Players take turns to turn over one card in Set A and one card in Set B at a time. If the two cards match with each other, the player can keep the cards. If the cards do not match, the player has to put them back facing down.
4. The player who gets the most cards wins.
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Part B: Writing a healthy recipe
You want to take part in the healthy recipe competition. The Chairman of the Health Club has given you the following guidelines and a feedback sheet to help you write a recipe. Now read his guidelines and write the recipe.