Are You a Foodie?
ESL Lesson PlansAre You a Foodie?

Are You a Foodie?

This engaging ESL lesson plan is designed for individual lessons, exploring themes related to food and culinary interests, and aimed at adults and teens at A1-A2 levels. The lesson promotes speaking skills through structured tasks, including discussing favorite foods, unscrambling definitions, and analyzing a blog post.

Skills

  • Can explain what they like or dislike about something, why they prefer one thing to another, making simple, direct comparisons.
Online Interactive
Based on CEFR
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1

Discuss the following questions.

1
What is your favorite food to eat?
2
Do you like trying new foods?
3
What is the best meal you have ever had?
4
How often do you go out to eat?
5
What do you think a foodie is?
2

Unscramble the words to find out what a foodie is. Are you a foodie?

3

Read a blog post.  Does being a foodie only mean loving food?

4

Are the statements true or false?

5

Fill in the gaps with verbs from the text. What do foodies usually do?

6

Write a short blog post answering the question.

7

Read these opinions. Which one do you agree with the most and why?

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