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TeachingEnglish Young Learners Activity Book Activities Activity 35: Taste the fruit! Vesna Buzalkovska – Republic of Macedonia Age: 8+ 50 minutes Large classes? No Mixed level? Yes Materials: Different pieces of fruit for tasting, a scarf for blindfold. Organisation: Whole class. Aim: To practise or revise the names of fruits and to prepare simple descriptions of them. Description: Children are blindfolded and take it in turns to taste fruit that they cannot see. They must guess which fruit they are eating. Preparation: Before the class, you need to prepare the fruits for ‘tasting’ by cutting up a variety of fruits into small pieces. Procedure 1. Teach the common fruits in your context and also others that are common around the world. 2. Show the children the fruits you have cut up into small pieces on a tray. Tell the children they can volunteer to try and guess the fruit by taste alone. 3. Blindfold the child who volunteers with a scarf. Using a clean fork or spoon, pick up a piece of fruit. Then put the handle into the child’s hand so they can feed him or herself. The child then guesses the name of the fruit. 4. Continue the game until all the fruit has been eaten. 5. Now build up a text about one of the fruits. For example, ask the children, ‘What colour are bananas? ‘Where do they come from?’ ‘What do they taste like?’ Do you like bananas? As you elicit answers, build up the text on the board: Bananas are yellow. They come from South America. Bananas taste sweet. I don’t like bananas. 6. Erase some of the words from the text leaving a stem skeleton: __________s are ___________ They come from ___________ _________s taste __________ I _________________ ___________s. 7. The children choose a fruit. They draw an outline of the fruit and then write the text inside the outline. 76 © British Council 2012
TeachingEnglish Young Learners Activity Book Activities Notes Only children who volunteer should taste the fruits. Do not force reluctant children to take part. Make sure you have enough clean forks for all the pieces. You do not need to taste all the fruit you teach. Alternatives The activity can be done with all kinds of food. It can be good fun if you choose food from a particular country that the children are not all familiar with. A similar activity can be done with feeling things. Put a number of items in secret into a box. A child is blindfolded and must pull one thing out of the box and describe what they can feel. They must then guess the object. No resources? Most teachers will be able to find a small supply of some food items that can be used to play the game. © British Council 2012 77
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