Lesson 9A What I ate yesterday

Food provides the context for looking at the grammar of countable and uncountable nouns and the related use of some and any. The lesson begins by getting Sts to brainstorm any food word they may already know in English, and then going to the Vocabulary Bank to learn many of the most common words. Sts then read an article from New York Magazine where three people, a model, a sportsman, and an actress, describe w hat they ate yesterday. The reading leads into the grammar focus, and Sts go on to practice the new' grammar and also review there is / there are. The pronunciation focus looks at the combination of vowels ea , which can be pronounced in several different ways and which occurs in many common food words, e.g. bread and steak , and in Speaking Sts tell each other what they ate yesterday. Finally, Sts listen to a TV cooking competition and answer questions about the rules of the competition and the dishes that the contestants make. The lesson finishes with Sts telling each other the ingredients of their favorite dish