C1 / Advanced | C2 / Proficiency
Standard Lesson 60 min

Our food choices

Global Issues Lifestyle

Talk about food quality and choices with this advanced lesson! Students practise advanced vocabulary for discussing food, watch a video on lab-grown meat and share their preferences, habits and opinions.

phrases for ordering at a café
A1 / Elementary
Standard Lesson 75 min

Can I get a cup of tea? (at a café)

General

Explore café situations! Students practise phrases for ordering and serving food, watch and listen to customer-server interactions, and role-play a conversation at a café. They also ask and answer questions about the menu.

A1 / Elementary
2 lessons

Let’s eat!

General

In the first lesson, students talk about their favourite food and learn to use a, an and some. In the second lesson, students practise vocabulary and grammar from the first lesson and learn words to talk about breakfast. They also practise using some and any.

some and any exercises
A1 / Elementary
Standard Lesson 60 min

For breakfast, I have…

General Grammar

In this lesson, students practise vocabulary on breakfast foods. They discuss a video about breakfasts around the world and listen to a recording. They also practise articles and do ‘some’ and ‘any’ exercises.

A1 food lesson plan
A1 / Elementary
Standard Lesson 60 min

What’s your favourite food?

General Grammar

In this lesson, students learn and practise food vocabulary for beginners! They discuss videos and recordings about food preferences and eating habits. They discuss their favourite food and practise countable and uncountable nouns

B1 / Intermediate
Critical Reading Club 30 min / 45 min

Ordering groceries online

Lifestyle

With this lesson plan about shopping, students discuss the pros and cons of ordering groceries online! They discuss consumer preferences and look at some niche online grocery stores. They do a ‘this or that’ exercise and learn useful vocabulary.

A2 / Pre‐Intermediate
2 lessons

Eating and cooking

General

In the first lesson, students discuss different food and cuisines while learning food-related vocabulary. In the second lesson, students talk about their attitude towards cooking, their experience and about being a chef using the vocabulary from the first lesson.

B1 / Intermediate | B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min

Food is more than just fuel

General Lifestyle

With this lesson, students discuss the impact of food on health. They practise vocabulary on nutrition, watch an informative video about the effects of foods on sleep and talk about specific food labels and food philosophies.

B1 / Intermediate
Critical Reading Club 30 min

Coffee time!

Lifestyle

Discuss weirdly interesting cafés around the world with this lesson! After reading an article, students practise vocabulary related to coffee and cafés, talk about their personal experiences and preferences, and analyse the establishments from the piece they read.

B2 / Upper Intermediate
3 lessons

Conversations for foodies

General

The set is perfect for food lovers and students who think that food is much more than nutrition.

A2 / Pre‐Intermediate | B1 / Intermediate
Speaking Class 45 min / 60 min

How well can you cook?

General

Use this lesson with students who like cooking, as well as with those who don’t have a lot of cooking experience. They will talk about their preferences, provide arguments and watch a cooking class ad.

ordering at a restaurant
A2 / Pre‐Intermediate
Standard Lesson 75 min

Are you ready to order?

General

Do your students know how to order food at a restaurant? If not, teach them some functional phrases, make them role play different scenarios and discuss eating out.

ESL lesson about coffee
A2 / Pre‐Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min

Food culture, coffee culture

Grammar Lifestyle

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.

discuss food and restaurant
C1 / Advanced
Speaking Class 45 min / 60 min

Wining and dining

General Lifestyle

This speaking worksheet contains a lot of activities which allow students to discuss food and restaurant experiences. Students also watch a video about tipping and talk about different aspects of it. 

B1 / Intermediate | B2 / Upper Intermediate
Critical Reading Club 30 min

Can robots be chefs?

Technology

In this lesson, students discuss the article they read at home, talk about the pizza vending machine and the future of cooking. 

tourism lesson plan
B1 / Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min

Would you like a lava snack?

Lifestyle

With this tourism lesson plan, students discuss gastro-tourism, watch a video and learn vocabulary related to food. 

B1 / Intermediate
Critical Reading Club 30 min

On the way to zero food waste

Global Issues Lifestyle

In this lesson, intermediate students discuss food waste, share some tips on how not to waste food and learn some useful vocabulary.

First Conditional
B1 / Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min

Waste less (First Conditional)

Global Issues

In this lesson students practise the use of First Conditional, watch a video about grocery shopping and discuss how we can waste less. 

carbon footprint
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Critical Reading Club 30 min

Why eating locally is not enough

Global Issues

In this worksheet students practise some language related to food’s carbon footprint. They also discuss their food choices and the factors that influence them.

talking about food
A2 / Pre‐Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min

The best food is in…

Lifestyle

This lesson plan includes tasks on food-related words and a lot of activities for talking about food. Your students will also watch a video about dishes from different countries and discuss their eating preferences.

sense verbs and adjectives
B1 / Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min

Could you live without your sense of smell?

General

In this lesson students practise their listening skills, revise sense verbs and learn to describe objects using sense verbs and adjectives.

lesson about diet and obesity
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min

Should junk food be taxed?

Global Issues

In this lesson about diet and obesity, students reflect on the factors contributing to the problem of obesity, listen to a news report and learn some words and phrases related to health.

food idioms practice
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min

Unusual ways of using food

Lifestyle

In this lesson about foodscape design, students practise listening, reflect on unusual ways of using food and learn several food idioms through a series of written and oral exercises.

dinner table phrases
B1 / Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min

Are you up for some dessert?

Lifestyle

This lesson plan is based on a video explaining why we always seem to have room for dessert and introduces dinner table phrases for B1 students.

English class project
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 75 min

How do you like your milk?

Lifestyle

In this lesson, students will learn advanced cooking verbs, discuss different types of milk and do an English class project.

B2 / Upper Intermediate
Flipped Lesson 45 min

Ditch the lawn!

Lifestyle

In this flipped lesson plan on gardening, students learn a few verbs, watch a video about turning lawns into gardens as well as discover the meanings of some expressions with the word ‘green’.

foreign food names
B1 / Intermediate | B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 45 min

Easier to eat than pronounce

General

The lesson plan focuses on the pronunciation of foreign food names. Students learn to pronounce such names in American and British English and have some fun.

cooking lesson plan
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Flipped Lesson 45 min

What is your signature dish? (cooking lesson plan)

Lifestyle

The worksheet is prepared for B2 students and consists of various vocabulary activities that will help them create their own recipes in English.

veganism lesson plan
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min

Vegan economy

Business Global Issues

With our veganism lesson plan, students will learn new food-related words and expressions, watch a news report and discuss veganism and its pros and cons.

food idioms
B2 / Upper Intermediate
Flipped Lesson 45 min

Gastrodiplomacy (with food idioms)

Lifestyle

This food lesson plan is prepared for B2 students and it’s about a phenomenon called gastrodiplomacy. Your students will also learn new food idioms and practise using them!

passive voice
B1 / Intermediate
Standard Lesson 60 min

How is bubble gum made (passive voice)

Grammar Technology

Teach your students how to use passive voice to talk about processes and discover how bubble gum is made.

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