Topic: Modern British cooking and restaurants; the popularity of celebrity chefs
Age: Teenage/adult
Level: Intermediate+
Timing: 60-90 mins
Aims:
- To learn or revise vocabulary relating to food, restaurants, tastes and textures
- To develop reading and comprehension skills
- To develop speaking skills/ discussing preferences and attitudes towards food and restaurants
Plan components
Lesson plan: guide for teacher on procedure including answers to tasks.
Worksheets: exercises which can be printed out for use in class. The worksheet contains:
- Brainstorming exercise
- Food vocabulary exercise
- British food quiz
- Reading task (1): article and comprehension questions
- Reading task (2): restaurant reviews, discussion questions and creative task
- Food proverbs exercise
For more information about this topic you can visit these BBC sites:
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/tv_and_radio
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/youmeus/lingo/lingo_food.shtml
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/video_lunch.shtml
Kate Joyce, British Council
The plans and worksheets are downloadable and in pdf format. If you have difficulty downloading the materials see the download section of the Help page.
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Comments
Interesting,indeed!
Hi there
Not sure if i'm missing something, but there seems to be a section missing - the activities that correspond with the restaurant reviews. Great looking lesson plan though and am planning to give it a go tomorrow.
Hi lplotnek,
You're right, it seems that the worksheets are slightly misnumbered and that the one with the questions about the reviews is missing. We are looking into it!
Best wishes,
Rachael
TeachingEnglish Team
That's great, thanks!
All worksheets should now be present and correct!
Best wishes,
Rachael
TeachingEnglish Team
I'm teaching English in Northern Spain at the moment (The Basque Country). I used this lesson with a lot of my classes last week (pre-int to upper-int) and they loved it. It gave them a really oppertinity to discuss their local cusines with me as well as discover how multi-cultural the UK actually is. I only managed to get through pages 1-4 of the worksheet in an hour and an half lesson but that's great because I can do a part two this week. Thank you very much for the lesson plan and nice one!
(P.S. they got a bit confused with the "eg pies" on the food description, they read it as egg pie. Maybe a e.g. might be better - sorry for being such a nit-picker)