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Healthy Bites

A comprehensive 5-day English as a New Language unit for 6th grade exploring food vocabulary, countable and uncountable nouns, cafeteria transactions, and healthy recipe writing. Students develop practical communicative fluency through visual vocabulary practice, role-play cafeteria simulations, and scaffolded creative writing tasks.

ZFZach Foster
Meal Masters

Focuses on food vocabulary across meal times and the grammatical distinction between countable and uncountable nouns using 'a', 'an', and 'some'. Students categorize foods into breakfast, lunch, and dinner while practicing preference phrases like 'I would like' and 'I prefer'.

Cafeteria Champs

Immerses students in cafeteria ordering and financial transactions using functional conversational routines and price questions. Students practice asking 'How much is...?' and ordering politely with 'I would like...' in authentic peer-to-peer cafe simulations.

Junior Chef

Guides students to design their own healthy school lunch menu and compose a step-by-step recipe description using transitional sequencers like first, next, and finally. Students apply countable and uncountable quantifiers to ingredient lists and evaluate the nutritional balance of their meal.

Healthy Bites

A comprehensive 5-day English as a New Language unit for 6th grade exploring food vocabulary, countable and uncountable nouns, cafeteria transactions, and healthy recipe writing. Students develop practical communicative fluency through visual vocabulary practice, role-play cafeteria simulations, and scaffolded creative writing tasks.

ZFZach Foster

Healthy Bites ENL Unit • Lesson 1 Teacher Key Classroom Ready

Customer
(Cliente)

1

Cafeteria Order Tickets • Boletos de pedido

Ticket #1: Round 1 Customer: Partner A

Item 1 (comida): ______________ $ ______

Item 2 (lado): ______________ $ ______

Drink (bebida): ______________ $ ______

Total Price (Precio total): $ ________

Ticket #2: Round 2 (Swap / Cambiar) Customer: Partner B

Item 1 (comida): ______________ $ ______

Item 2 (lado): ______________ $ ______

Drink (bebida): ______________ $ ______

Total Price (Precio total): $ ________

2

$8.00 Healthy Lunch Challenge • Desafío del presupuesto

You have $8.00 to buy 1 Entree + 1 Side + 1 Drink + 1 Snack. (Tienes $8.00 para armar tu almuerzo saludable sin pasarte del total).

Entree / Principal ______________

Side / Acompañamiento ______________

Drink / Bebida ______________

Snack / Merienda ______________

Suma: $ _______ + $ _______ + $ _______ + $ _______ = $ ________ (Total)

Write your complete order sentence (Escribe tu oración completa):

For lunch today, I would like __________________________________________________

Speaking Self-Check • Autoevaluación

I said "I would like..." (Pedí cortésmente) I asked "How much is...?" (Pregunté precio) I said "Thank you!" (Di las gracias)

Unit: Healthy Bites • Wed-Thu Activity Page 2 of 2

Step 2: Add prices!

3

Swap Roles

Switch jobs for Ticket #2 and the $8.00 Challenge!
Cambien de rol para el segundo boleto.

Step 3: Swap and win!

Goal: Speak in complete English sentences! • ¡Habla en oraciones completas!

Prep: 10 mins • Serves: 1 person

Ingredients (Ingredientes - Usa a / an / some):

1. • ________________________________

2. • ________________________________

3. • ________________________________

4. • ________________________________

Preparation Steps • Pasos de preparación

Step 1: First, (Primero)

First, ____________________________________________________________________

Step 2: Next, (Luego)

Next, ____________________________________________________________________

Step 3: Then, (Después)

Then, ____________________________________________________________________

Step 4: Finally, (Por último)

Finally, __________________________________________________________________

👩‍🍳

Consejo de cocina: Wash your hands and fresh fruits with clean water before eating! (¡Lava tus manos y las frutas frescas con agua limpia!)

Unit: Healthy Bites • Friday Project Page 2 of 2

Gives a simple health reason using sentence frames.

Reason is incomplete or missing key details.

Healthy Bites ENL Unit • Lesson 3 Guide Scaffolded Assessment • Apoyo Bilingüe

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