Our food choices

Abi | Mar 07, 2025Mar 07, 2025

LESSON OVERVIEW

The main objectives of this lesson are to:

• talk about food quality and choices;
• practise advanced vocabulary for discussing food;
• watch a video report on lab-grown meat.

With this lesson, students discuss what influences their food choices, explore food-related vocabulary (e.g. preservative-free, mouthwatering, locally grown) and talk about their preferences and opinions on food. They also discuss food quality, watch a video about lab-grown meat and discuss its impact.

WARM-UP AND VOCABULARY

This lesson begins with a warm-up. Students choose two factors that influence their food choices (e.g. brand, convenience, habits) and give details. Afterwards, they read sentences starting with ‘Would you rather…’ and explore advanced vocabulary for discussing food. Students complete adjectives and phrases about food (e.g. artificially enhanced, high-end, ultra-processed). Then, they choose the sentence options that resonate most with them. Students give details. Following that, they say which adjectives or phrases can best replace parts of statements about opinions on food quality and choices. Students then read the statements again and choose two they strongly agree or disagree with. They explain why. After that, students discuss more statements after choosing one option to complete them (e.g. There are more/less misconceptions about eating healthily these days.). They explain their reasoning. 

VIDEO AND DISCUSSION

At this point in the lesson, students decide if sentences about cultured meat are true or false (e.g. Animals are not involved in lab-grown meat.). Then, they watch a video about lab-grown meat and check their answers. Following that, students read statements on debates about lab-grown meat (e.g. It’s still unclear whether current additives offer the same dietary content as real meat in the long term.). They watch the rest of the video and practise more advanced vocabulary for discussing food. Students identify phrases that mean the same as the phrases in the statements (e.g. dietary content – nutritional value). Finally, they discuss questions about lab-grown meat and its impact.

HOMEWORK/REVISION

This lesson plan also includes an additional task that you can use as homework or revision. In the task, students complete sentences with the target vocabulary from the lesson. The task is available in the teacher’s version of the worksheet. You can print it and hand it out to your students. It’s also included in the e-lesson plan.

WORKSHEETS

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