Summary
This B2 lesson uses a "How It's Made" theme to introduce vocabulary for manufacturing and food processing. Students will watch a video about a sandwich factory, discuss the pros and cons of automated food production, and practice describing processes using the passive voice. Activities include vocabulary exercises, comprehension questions, sequencing tasks, and designing a new sandwich production line, enhancing both language skills and understanding of modern food technology.
Activities
Warm-up discussion: Students share their sandwich preferences, discuss buying ready-made versus homemade food, and consider the pros and cons of factory-made items, activating prior knowledge and setting the lesson's context.
Vocabulary building: Learners engage with gap-fill exercises using key terms for manufacturing and food processing, such as assembly lines, automated, ingredients, retailers, and pre-packaged, to build their specialized lexicon.
Video comprehension: After watching an engaging video on sandwich manufacturing, students answer specific questions to demonstrate their understanding of the industrial processes and newly encountered vocabulary in a real-world context.
Matching and sequencing: Learners solidify their understanding by matching industry-specific terms like cold cuts, depositor, and ultrasonic knife with their correct definitions, and by logically ordering the steps involved in a sandwich production line.
Grammar practice: Passive voice: Students focus on the structure and use of the passive voice (be + past participle) to describe manufacturing processes, practicing by transforming active sentences into passive ones focused on the product.
Creative application: In a culminating task, learners design their own sandwich production line, detailing equipment, steps, and quality control, thereby applying the vocabulary and passive voice constructions learned.
Vocabulary focus
Explore essential terms for food production and industrial manufacturing, including pre-packaged, retailers, varieties, ingredients, assembly lines, automated, depositor, manually, cold cuts, slicer, ultrasonic knife, reciprocating saw, hygiene, visual inspection, specifications, dispense, suctions, oscillating, and conveyor belt.
Grammar focus
This lesson concentrates on the passive voice (be + past participle). Students will learn how it is commonly used to describe manufacturing and industrial processes, emphasizing the action or the product rather than the agent performing the action (e.g., "The bread is loaded into the machine" or "Sandwiches are sliced using an ultrasonic knife").
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