No Veggies Allowed: Welcome to Our Farm
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No Veggies Allowed: Welcome to Our Farm

Explore food-related vocabulary in this engaging ESL lesson plan designed for teens and adults at the A2 level. Students practice listening and speaking through activities like video-based comprehension, matching definitions, and creative sentence completion. The structured lesson includes a humorous twist about a fictional "pizza farm" to spark lively discussions and critical thinking. Perfect for building communication skills and adding a touch of fun to learning!

Skills

  • Can follow a TV commercial or a trailer for or scene from a film, understanding what the actors are talking about, provided that the images are a great help in understanding and the delivery is clear and relatively slow.
  • Can use simple descriptive language to make brief statements about and compare objects and possessions.
Online Interactive
Based on CEFR
Fully Customizable
1

Warm-up

Look at the pictures and answer the questions: 1. What food can you see? 2. Which food is healthy and which food is unhealthy? 3. Does the food in the pictures look like a typical school lunch? Why? 4. Do you remember what you had for lunch at school as a child? Describe it.
2

Look through the list. Watch the video and name the foods that grow on the farm.

3

Watch the video again and mark the statements as T(rue) or F(alse).

4

Time to read!

5

Match these words from the text to the definitions.

6

Make logical collocations with the following words. Multiple options are possible.

7

Complete the sentences

8

Discuss the questions.

9

Read the dialogue and complete the sentences.

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