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Humanising Language Teaching
Year 6; Issue 1; January 2004
Picking Fruit
Primary, secondary and adult
A PA MS SI SE
Time: Around 5 minutes
Level: Beginners
Focus: The sense verbs: see, hear, touch feel, taste and smell
Material: None
Procedure:
Ask students to stand in a circle and imagine a garden and that in the garden there are many fruit trees. Tell them to choose a tree that has a kind of fruit they would like to eat. Tell them to reach up as high as they can and pick it.
Ask them to touch it, feel it, and poke it. Tell them to notice its texture: Is it soft or hard, smooth or rough, warm or cool, sticky or dry? Ask them to weigh it in their hand to tell if it is heavy or light.
Ask them to raise the fruit to their ear and shake it. Can they hear anything inside?
Tell them to bring the fruit to their nose and smell it. Does it have a good smell?
Finally, they can break it open or peel it to eat it. How does it taste? Is it sweet, sour, or tasteless?
Tell the students that the fruit is always sweeter in the neighbour's garden. Ask them to reach over and pick a piece of fruit in their neighbour's garden.
Go through stages 2 to 5 again.
Students describe to each other a piece of fruit that they “ate” or compare the fruit from their own garden and their neighbour's garden.
Comment:
Some students enjoy drawing a picture of their fruit and showing it as they describe their fruit. This is especially interesting when students describe an imaginary fruit.
