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Fun in the Kitchen with Gingerbread People

Subject Areas:
Food, Body parts, Clothes, Family tree।
Language Items:
GINGER DADDY
is wearing a pair of striped trousers,
a white belt made of pink icing, etc.

GINGER MUMMY
is wearing a long dress, with two purple buttons
made of chocolate and a white belt made of icing, etc.

What are GINGER DAUGHTER/SISTER? GINGER SON/BROTHER wearing ?
What colour is her SKIRT?
What is her MOUTH made of?

Functions:
Describing people.
Make questions about their appearance, their clothes and colours.
Use types of candies and food.
Listening (the tale of the gingerbread man).

Game examples:
Give your pupils a paper’s template of the gingerbread men, women and kids, this way everyone will be able to draw his own family tree.

Show them a list of ingredients, previously prepared at home, that can be used to decorate their drawings.

Sketch the ingredients on the blackboard, so kids can copy them.
And then call and ask each one about one or two members of his ginger family.

More Activities:

In the Fridge and Tiny Garden
Body parts Cootie Catcher