Level 1 | Unit 2 - Overview

Fast Food Restaurant

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Primary Focus: Fast-Food Restaurant introduces students to a variety of food related vocabulary, with a primary focus on burgers and their traditional accompaniments. Students will be provided with the opportunity to practice the unit's vocabulary with a restaurant food ordering role-play scenario.

Students will learn to play the roles of 'customer' and 'server.' As with all communication activities in this curriculum, printable materials are provided to facilitate this role-play scenario.

Additional Learning: Students will also learn some ways to describe some of the animals they learned the names of in the previous unit. This will included differentiating between land & water animals and safe & dangerous animals.

Additionally, students will continue to learn basic functional classroom instruction vocabulary words with the verbal phrase line-up.

Pet Shop Unit

Each unit in this curriculum program is divided into three sections. The content in each unit is scaffolded from section to section. To teach Unit 1, begin with the content in Section 1 and once your students reach a comfortable level of competence, you can continue through Section 2 and Section 3. Both Section 2 and Section 3 will introduce new learning content, while continuing to utilize the learning from the preceding section(s) of Unit 1.

Unit Learning Goals
The following list provides all of the suggested learning goals for the current unit. This unit's activities and provided printable materials are designed to achieve all listed goals. However, the teacher ultimately has the final decision about which goals to expect to students to achieve for the unit.
Learn how to use the word ‘not’ in a sentence. Practice the words ‘sit,’ ‘stand,’ and ‘teacher” for normal classroom communication usage. Explain the use of the possessive memory words 'my,' 'our,' 'his,' 'her,' and “your.” Do not teach 'her' as a pronoun at this point. This will be taught in a later level to avoid confusion for the learners. Give examples of how to use the verb 'have.' Use the phrase “don’t have” (or "do not have" to describe things that you have and don’t have and then invite the students to create their own sentences. Make the meaning of “don’t have” clear by using ridiculous examples of things you don’t have. For example, “I don’t have a bear.” Demonstrate the activity of matching. Provide visual examples of things that do match and don’t match and then invite the students to participate in a matching activity or worksheet. Introduce the memory word “rule” by teaching a list of classroom rules.

Communication Practice
Communication activities are games and exercises designed to develop students' speaking & listening skills while reinforcing their recall of vocabulary words from the current unit (as well as previous units), and allowing an opportunity for the practice of useful sentence structures.

	Restaurant Role-Play - Step 1 (Burgers) Pet Shop introduces students to a variety of common animals and related vocabulary. Students will be provided with the opportunity to practice the unit's vocabulary with a pet shop shopping role-play scenario. Students will learn to play the roles of 'customer' and 'salesperson.' Phonics skills development materials are included, as well as one additional vocabulary recall development card game.
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	Animal Deduction Cards - Step 1 Students will be able to practice the unit section vocabulary words using some simple sentences to play an engaging deduction card game. Students will be provided with the opportunity to practice the unit's vocabulary with a pet shop shopping role-play scenario. Students will learn to play the roles of 'customer' and 'salesperson.' Phonics skills development materials are included, as well as one additional vocabulary recall development card game.
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	Restaurant Role-Play - Step 2 (Burgers) Pet Shop introduces students to a variety of common animals and related vocabulary. Students will be provided with the opportunity to practice the unit's vocabulary with a pet shop shopping role-play scenario. Students will learn to play the roles of 'customer' and 'salesperson.' Phonics skills development materials are included, as well as one additional vocabulary recall development card game. View Instructions & Materials

	Animal Deduction Cards - Step 2 Students will be able to practice the unit section vocabulary words using some simple sentences to play an engaging deduction card game. Students will be provided with the opportunity to practice the unit's vocabulary with a pet shop shopping role-play scenario. Students will learn to play the roles of 'customer' and 'salesperson.' Phonics skills development materials are included, as well as one additional vocabulary recall development card game. View Instructions & Materials


	Restaurant Role-Play - Step 3 (Burgers) Pet Shop introduces students to a variety of common animals and related vocabulary. Students will be provided with the opportunity to practice the unit's vocabulary with a pet shop shopping role-play scenario. Students will learn to play the roles of 'customer' and 'salesperson.' Phonics skills development materials are included, as well as one additional vocabulary recall development card game. View Instructions & Materials

	Animal Deduction Cards - Step 2 Students will be able to practice the unit section vocabulary words using some simple sentences to play an engaging deduction card game. Students will be provided with the opportunity to practice the unit's vocabulary with a pet shop shopping role-play scenario. Students will learn to play the roles of 'customer' and 'salesperson.' Phonics skills development materials are included, as well as one additional vocabulary recall development card game. View Instructions & Materials

	Colors Survey - Step 1 Students will use their speaking and listening skills to conduct and respond to a survey about the favorite colors of a provide list of animal characters. View Instructions & Materials

Vocabulary Flashcards
This section provides the lists of the all of the vocabulary words introduced or reviewed in this unit. Click the link at the bottom of this section to learn more about the purpose & functionality of each type of flashcard and to access the PDFs for all flashcard versions.

	Core Vocabulary Words: bun, chicken, chili, dangerous, down, eat, free, hamburger, help, ketchup, ice-cream, lettuce, line, meat, powder, restaurant, safe, server, tomato, up Combination/Compound Words: chicken-burger, fish-burger, chili-powder, line-up, meatball Supplementary Words: burger Memory Words: in, on, to, thank-you, welcome, where, when, who Review Vocabulary Words: fish


	Core Vocabulary Words: bacon, coffee, cookie, drink(verb), drink(noun), flour, fork, fries, game, juice, land(noun), milk, onion, peach, pickle, play(verb), tea, thing, water, write Combination/Compound Words: apple-juice, peach-juice, someone, something Memory Words: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, a-little, a-lot, should, some Review Vocabulary Words: many


	Core Vocabulary Words: barbecue, beginning, big, bowl, car, egg, end, fast, hot, house, jump, mustard, nut, pizza, rice, sauce, slow, small, yell, yogurt Combination/Compound Words: barbecue-sauce, chili-sauce, dog-bowl, dog-food, dog-house, hot-dog Memory Words: careful(adj), carefully(adv), more, share, type, very Review Vocabulary Words: none

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Phonics Learning
The activities in this section provide phonics learning and practice opportunities using the same high frequency vocabulary words students have been utilizing in communication activities and classroom communication.

	Letter Recognition: Letter recognition practice of the letters G, H, P, R, and S. Students will practice matching the lowercase and uppercase versions of each letter to increase their quick recognition skills for each letter and also develop their understanding that the lowercase and uppercase versions of each letter are related to each other. Although the letters being taught will be different in each unit, all iterations of the Letter Recognition activity use the same type of materials and follow the same set of instructions. View Activity Instructions


	Letter Recognition: Continue the letter recognition practice of the letters G, H, P, R, and S with the materials provided in Section 1.


	Phonics Fish: Playing Phonics Fish will encourage your students to be intentional about learning fundamental phonics knowledge while simultaneously practicing their recall of some of the core vocabulary words that they have learned recently. This game is a modified version of the classic game Go Fish, except that the card backs of the provided printable cards have phonics clues on them. A new set Phonics Fish cards is provided in each unit of level. However, the gameplay rules for Phonics Fish stay the same in every unit. For this unit's Phonics Fish card deck, the word used are apple, bun, chili, cookie, drink, hamburger, meatball, nut, onion, peach, pizza, tomato. View Gameplay Instructions

	Letter Recognition: Continue the letter recognition practice of the letters G, H, P, R, and S with the materials provided in Section 1.

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Recommended Action Words

The words on the lists below are all verbs, nouns, adjectives, and prepositions suitable for using a body motion to represent. These words are suitable for Total Physical Response style activities and other physical action oriented activities, such as Simon Says games.

Recommended Action Words: alligator, bear, bird, cat, chicken, dog, down, eat, elephant, fish, horse, kangaroo, lion, monkey, mouse, octopus, rabbit, sit, stand, turtle, up

Recommended Action Words: alligator, bear, bird, cat, chicken, dog, down, drink, eat, elephant, fish, horse, kangaroo, lion, monkey, mouse, octopus, rabbit, sit, stand, turtle, up, write

Recommended Action Words: alligator, bear, bird, cat, chicken, dog, down, drink, eat, elephant, fast, fish, hot, horse, jump, kangaroo, lion, monkey, mouse, octopus, rabbit, sit, slow, stand, turtle, up, write