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The Colorful Kitchen

A Warmer
A. Unscramble the letters to find the rooms of a house.
nkichte
morotabh
drmoobe
gelnou
ystdu
B. Look at these things. Put it in the correct room.
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B Reading
There is a children’s TV show called “The

Color Of Things”. Read what happens when
three children, Charlie, Mika and Susie, go
on the TV show.
Steve: Welcome to “The Color Of

Things”. Today’s first guest is Charlie.
Hello, Charlie.
Charlie: Hello.
Steve: Where are you from?
Charlie: Dublin in Ireland.
Steve: OK, first question, what color is Steve: Yes, it is. Second question:
a banana? what color are tomatoes?
Charlie: A banana is yellow. Mika: Are they red?
Steve: Correct. Second question: what Steve: Yes, they are! Question number
color is a tiger? three: what color is a panda?
Charlie: Oh, orange and… Mika: Mmmm, is a panda grey?
Steve: Yes? Steve: No, I’m sorry. Our final guest is
Charlie: A tiger is orange and yellow. Susie. Where are you from, Susie?
Steve: No, I’m sorry. Our next guest is Susie: Hello everyone, I’m from
Mika. Where are you from, Mika? Chicago in the USA.
Mika: Hello, I’m from Zagreb in Steve: Welcome, Susie. What color is a
Croatia. panda?
Steve: First question for you: what Susie: Is it black and white?
color is a tiger? Steve: Correct! The final question:
Mika: Is it orange and black? what color are peas?
Susie: Peas are green!
Steve: Yes, very good.
List the colors:
Colors
List the cities and countries for each person:
Person City/Country
C Vocabulary
Here is a list of things from the quiz show, “The Color Of Things”. Use a color,
✓
a tick ( ) or a cross (X) to complete this table.
Color Food Animal Long Round

Banana Yellow ✓ ✓
Tiger ______ ✓
Tomato Red X
Panda ______ X X
Peas Green X ✓
D Exercise
Choose the correct form of the verb to complete each sentence. Think carefully
about whether you need positive or negative.
1. A banana ____ blue, it’s yellow.

2. ____ peas yellow? No, they ____ green.
3. ____ bread green? No, it ____ white or sometimes it ____ brown.
4. What color ____ peaches?
5. Some apples ____ green and some ____ red and some ____ yellow.
6. Milk ____ green, it ____ white!
E Game
You are going to play “The Color Of Things”, the game

from Section B of the lesson.
Your teacher will put you into groups and explain the
rules to you.
Teacher Notes
Verb “to be”, question forms,
Target Language:
colors/food vocabulary.
Duration: 60 minutes
1 Structure and Timing (all times approximate)
A. Warmer (15 minutes)

B. Reading (15 minutes)
C. Vocabulary (10 minutes)
D. Exercise (10 minutes)
E. Game (10 minutes)
Total: 60 minutes.
2 Procedure
A. Warmer
The focus of the lesson today is affirmative and interrogative forms of the verb “to be”
alongside some vocabulary work on food/room/colors. We will also introduce semantic
grids to your class!
The initial letter-unscrambling task can be done as a class. You can write the correct
room names on the board. For the furniture activity, you can practice some questions
and answers with your students:
Teacher: What is it?

Student A: It’s a fridge.
Teacher: What color is it?
Student B: It’s green.
Teacher: Where is the fridge? Is it in the study?
Student C: No, it isn’t. It’s in the kitchen.
And so on.
B. Reading
The game presented in this reading is the same game that the students themselves
will be playing later in the lesson, so it’s important they understand the rules. After
students have read through the text, you can get students practicing the script in
groups of four. You can monitor this and take notes for correction of pronunciation
later. You also may feel it’s necessary to focus some attention on the structure of the
questions using “to be” although there isn’t really a strong grammar focus in today’s
lesson.
Once the reading phase of the lesson is complete, the vocabulary boxes can be filled
out. You can easily get some more speaking practice here by asking further questions
as you go through each box.
What else is orange?

Name an orange vegetable.
Is Chicago in Spain?
Is Susie Spanish?
Name another American city.
You should exploit any opportunity you have to give your students further speaking
and listening practice, even if it’s just thirty seconds.
Answer Key
Colors: yellow, orange, black, red, grey, white, green

Person/City:
Charlie – Dublin
Mika – Zagreb
Susie – Chicago
C. Vocabulary
There is no getting around the fact that English has an enormous vocabulary, one that
creates ever more problems for even advanced learners. Semantic grids are useful
tools to introduce to students and to enable them to see differences in words. At this
level, the differences are not so subtle, but a grid like this can be a very useful visual
aid.
Is a tiger long or round? Well, that can be open for discussion and debate about
whether we are talking about a fat tiger or not is a good thing.
Once students are clear about what is needed to complete the grid, they can do so in
pairs or small groups and then you can lead the correction and discussion afterwards.
D. Exercise
This is a brief exercise focusing on positive and negative forms of “to be”.
Answer Key
1. A banana isn’t blue, it’s yellow.

2. Are peas yellow? No, they are green.
3. Is bread green? No, it is white or sometimes it is brown.
4. What color are peaches?
5. Some apples are green and some are red and some are yellow.
6. Milk isn’t green, it is white!
E. Game
This is a reconstruction of the game in the Reading section of the lesson. You can
create as much of a “quiz show” atmosphere as you think the students will enjoy,
possibly with a stopwatch and getting them to stand at the front. If you want to crank
up the atmosphere, get the classroom in darkness and bring in a lamp!
Have a list of objects/foods/animals at the ready and do insist on correct English and
no mother tongue being used.

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The Colorful Kitchen

A. Unscramble the letters to find the rooms of a house.

There is a children’s TV show called “The

Steve: Welcome to “The Color Of

List the colors:

List the cities and countries for each person:

Color Food Animal Long Round

1. A banana ____ blue, it’s yellow.

You are going to play “The Color Of Things”, the game

1 Structure and Timing (all times approximate)

A. Warmer (15 minutes)

Teacher: What is it?

What else is orange?

Colors: yellow, orange, black, red, grey, white, green

1. A banana isn’t blue, it’s yellow.

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