What Should We Have for Dinner?
ESL Lesson PlansWhat Should We Have for Dinner?

What Should We Have for Dinner?

This ESL lesson plan encourages adults to discuss and compare dinner options, targeting B1 level grammar skills. Through individual exercises and discussions, students explore comparatives to weigh the pros and cons of cooking at home, ordering takeout, or dining out. The lesson includes reading, gap-filling activities, and practical conversation tasks to strengthen grammar skills and decision-making in English. This 45-minute session provides a fun, relatable way to practice comparative language in everyday contexts.

Skills

  • Can compare and contrast alternatives, discussing what to do, where to go, who or which to choose, etc.
Online Interactive
Based on CEFR
Fully Customizable
1

Discuss the following questions.

1
How do you usually decide what to have for dinner?
2
How important is variety in your dinner choices?
3
Have you ever used meal planning services or apps to help with deciding what to have for dinner?
4
How do you feel about the idea of cooking versus ordering takeout for dinner?
2

Read the text about dinner options.

3

Read the explanation to learn how to compare things.

4

Fill in the blanks to compare things in the sentences.

5

Compare your options and discuss the following question.