Culinary Inventions and Passive Voice Practice
ESL Lesson PlansCulinary Inventions and Passive Voice Practice

Culinary Inventions and Passive Voice Practice

This ESL lesson plan focuses on culinary inventions while reinforcing grammar skills with the present continuous passive. Through engaging listening and speaking exercises, learners explore recent food industry innovations like 3D food printing and lab-grown meat. The lesson includes a structured warm-up discussion, a video-based listening activity, and interactive grammar matching and sentence unscrambling tasks. This comprehensive approach helps students practice passive voice in a real-world context, enhancing both grammar control and speaking confidence.

Skills

  • Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control. Does not make mistakes which lead to misunderstanding.
  • Can give a clear, detailed description of how to carry out a procedure.
Online Interactive
Based on CEFR
Fully Customizable
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Warm-up: Culinary innovations

Look at the list of the most recent innovations and experiments in the food industry. Have you heard about them before? How do they work? Do they have any potential?
1. Immersive and virtual dining 2. Lab-grown meat 3. AI and robotics in kitchens 4. Food printing
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3D printing food

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Grammar matching: More innovations

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Unscramble the inventions

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Innovation station

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