1- Introduction: The Food Pyramid
The food pyramid shows different food groups. We eat them every day!
2- Vocabulary: Food
Let’s learn new words: healthy foods and junk foods.
2.1- Healthy Food
Healthy food is good for us. It has a lot of nutrients: vitamins, minerals, water, proteins, etc.
Fruits
Vegetables
Proteins
2.2- Junk / Unhealthy Food
“Junk” or “unhealthy” foods have a lot of salt, fat, and sugar. They are bad for us!
Read and listen.
2.3- Activity
Classify the food: healthy or unhealthy.
3- Communicative function: Connecting Ideas
Let’s learn how to connect ideas about food!
3.1- “And”: Adding Items
We use the word “and” to link two or more items, objects, etc. For example:
Tomatoes 
and bananas 
are healthy food.
Potato chips 
and ice-cream 
are junk food.
3.2- “But”: Expressing Contrast
We use the word “but” to connect 2 opposite ideas. For example:
Tomatoes 
are healthy but potato chips 
are unhealthy.
Fish 
is healthy food but hamburger
is junk food.
4- Practice Activity
Complete the ideas with the correct word: and or but. Number 1 is an example.
1) Pizza 
is unhealthy but lettuce 
is healthy.
2) Legumes
are healthy _____ ice-cream
is unhealthy.
3) Donut 
_____ popcorn 
are unhealthy foods.
4) Fries 
are unhealthy _____ broccoli 
is healthy.
5) Nuts
_____ pineapple
are healthy foods.
Answer Key
1) Pizza is unhealthy but lettuce is healthy.
2) Legumes are healthy but ice-cream is unhealthy.
3) Donut and popcorn are unhealthy foods.
4) Fries are unhealthy but broccoli is healthy.
5) Nuts and pineapple are healthy foods.
5- Interactive Activity
Label the food in the picture.
6- Self-evaluation: Check the box to see what you learnt
| What did you learn? | Yes  |
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| 1) I can name foods. |
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| 2) I can connect two items/foods using “and”. |
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| 3) I can connect opposite ideas using “but”. |
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