Level: Young Learners and up Time: 30-45min

This lesson was designed as a follow up to my other YL lesson on astronaut food: https://englishvee.com/2021/01/17/kids-try-astronaut-food/

It can be used for YL and more advanced SS, depending on your lesson plan. There are two worksheets to choose from.

I always start the lesson with this video. I pause it after every fail and ask SS three questions:

1. What went wrong?
2. How do the kids feel?
3. How does the dad feel?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct-lOOUqmyY

Handouts:

This handout is more of a passive, multiple choice, cross-out type of activities…

This one on the other hand allows T and SS to get a lot more creative. You can ask SS to write a recipefor a peanut butter and jelly sandwich (pb&j) in their own words or based on some YT tutorial. You can also use it to introduce vocabulary for sequencing (First, next, after that, later, last, etc.)

For more advanced SS you can use this material for a fun and a very educational CLIL activity (science and IT). Invite SS to imagine that they writing instructions for a robot or an alien.

Using the instructions SS provide T attempts to make PB&J sandwiches.

Follow the instructions as literally as possible

It can get super fun, as T (the robot) cannot even open a jar.