| LESSON OVERVIEW
In this ESL lesson about coffee and food culture students have a lot of discussion, watch a video, study nouns that can be both countable and uncountable, and have a lot of fun practice.
DISCUSSION & VIDEO
This ESL lesson about coffee and food culture starts with a warm-up. Students examine two pictures, discuss them and talk about their food preferences, food culture in their country, etc. After that, students read three short texts about hummus, dumplings, and coffee. They discuss whether they like them and if they are part of their country’s food culture. Before the reading part, students get a chance to revise the difference between countable and uncountable nouns.
Afterwards, students move on to a video. First, students are told that they are going to watch a video about coffee culture in Naples. Students look at some aspects and decide which of them the coffee culture of Naples comprises. Then, they watch the video for the first time and check their answers. Students watch another part of the video again to correct the mistakes in sentences about one particular tradition – caffè sospeso. After students have finished the activities related to the video, they participate in a discussion. They talk about their coffee preferences and similar traditions.
GRAMMAR & PRACTICE
In this part of the ESL lesson about coffee and food culture, students work with grammar more. They look at the sentences from the video and decide what the differences in meaning between coffee and coffees are. After that, they look at some more similar examples (e.g. food vs foods, fruit vs fruits, a cake vs cake, etc.) and try to come up with their own examples. Then, students have more practice and choose a word to complete sentences. They also do a more creative task and think of two consequences for situations (e.g. Two friends are in a café but one of them is on a diet.) using words in two different forms (e.g. cheese and cheeses).
HOMEWORK/REVISION
The ESL lesson about coffee also includes a supplementary task to practise grammar. In the task, students need to complete the questions with one of the words and match them to the responses. The task is available in the teacher’s version of the worksheet and can be printed for students or accessed in the e-lesson plan for online teaching.
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Great lesson. And I love the coffee illustrations! Who is the artist, please? Thank you
Thanks for the comment! You can find the author of these illustrations here.
It cheered me up 🙂 it is a vibrating summer lesson! Pls make more 😀
Thank you so much! We’re happy you liked it 🙂
great lesson! however, I noticed that in all the esl brains the word practice is misspelled… you say ‘let’s practise’ when you should say ‘lets practice’
Actually, when we talk about the verb ‘practise’/’practice’, both are correct. At ESL Brains, we tend to use the BrE one more often. You can see both options in this dictionary entry.
This is fab and the video in Napoli is great! Thanks!
Thank you so much for your comment! We’re happy you enjoyed this lesson 🙂
Another great lesson, thank you! I just wanted to say there’s a mistake, the same one actually on pages 28, 29, 31 and 33 — you’ve missed “you” in question ‘I’ (Would you like more cake?).
I’m sorry for the slip-up, we’ve just fixed that. Thank you for spotting that and we’re happy you enjoyed the lesson 🙂
A good lesson, but Ex 10 looks like it was created by A.I. An A2 student isn’t going to understand these instructions, I’m not even sure of them myself.
Thank you for your feedback! In ex. 10, the idea was to get students thinking creatively about consequences while practicing different noun forms (e.g., singular, plural, uncountable). If you find this task too complex for your students, more scaffolding and guidance could be a viable solution.
Here’s what we suggest:
– doing a few examples together first
– providing a few sentence starters to help your students along.
Hope this helps!