What’s your favourite drink?

Ewa | Feb 23, 2026Feb 23, 2026

LESSON OVERVIEW

The main objectives of this lesson are to:

• engage in talking about drinks, recipes and personal preferences;
• practise useful vocabulary for discussing drink recipes;
• watch a video showing how to make a drink. 

Students discuss drinks for different situations, explore useful vocabulary (e.g. juice, iced tea, latte) and work on pronunciation (/uː/, /əʊ/ and /eɪ/ sounds). They share their opinions and preferences, watch a video with a drink recipe and practise verbs for making drinks (e.g. boil, mix and pour). Students also work with various recipes, create their own drink and present it to others.

WARM-UP AND VOCABULARY

This lesson starts with a warm-up. Students look at photos of people in various situations (at the gym, outside in cold weather, sitting at a desk). They discuss where they are, what they are doing and what drink they should have. After that, students match drink categories (e.g. hot drinks, soft drinks, things you can add to drinks) with sets of words (e.g. espresso, latte, herbal tea). They then add one more example to each category. Next, students explore different vowel sounds by putting words (e.g. smoothie, coconut, latte) in their correct categories (words with /uː/, words with /əʊ/ and words with /eɪ/). Following that, they engage in talking about drinks and personal preferences (e.g. a drink you would like to try), using the words from the previous exercises. 

VIDEO AND MORE VOCABULARY

In this part of the lesson, students watch a video with a recipe for a Strawberry Matcha Latte. First, they say whether they’d like to try it by choosing a response to the video (e.g. Yummy! Yes, please!). Then, students watch the video and say if their answer changed. Afterwards, they list the ingredients they remember from the video. Next, students watch it again and check their answers. Following that, they discuss drinks, opinions and everyday choices. Moving on, students use verbs (e.g. add, blend, boil) to complete gaps in recipes (lemon herbal tea and fruit and vegetable smoothie). After that, they choose the correct words to complete more recipes. Finally, students engage in talking about drinks and create a recipe. They choose ingredients and verbs from the lesson to answer questions (e.g. What is your drink called?). Students then present their drinks to other students and decide whose drink is the best.   

HOMEWORK/REVISION

This lesson also includes an additional task that you can use as homework or revision. In the task, students complete missing letters to create words for talking about drinks in sentences. They then choose three sentences and add details or change them so that they are true for them. 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.

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