Introduction
This lesson consists of a series of activities to help students talk about food and cooking.
The main focus of the lesson is a text based on a recent survey in the UK indicating that British people are becoming more adventurous and experimental in their cooking and eating habits due to the growing popularity of cooking programmes. This lesson should challenge stereotypes of British food and encourage students to discuss their own preferences and attitudes towards food and restaurants.
Topic
Modern British cooking and restaurants; the popularity of celebrity chefs
Level
Intermediate+
Time
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
Materials
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/programmes
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/youmeus/lingo/lingo_food.shtm
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.
Copyright - please read
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Comments
Food Quiz question 14
Food Quiz question 14
Food Quiz question #14 ... 2017 to 2022
Agreed. The question is worded poorly, and the file has not been updated. It is now 2022, and I'm not going to hold my breath for an update as promised in December of 2017. I'm hoping for a Christmas miracle in 2022; please kindly update this?
Worksheet updated
Hi Alice M
Thanks for your comment - the worksheet has now been updated with a differently worded question 14 - Hope you and your students enjoy the lesson!
Cath
TeachingEnglish team
Hot & Spicy: any difference?
Hi Valaki,
Private classes
Amazing Lesson
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 opportunity to discuss their local cuisines 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 "e.g. 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)
Pages missing?
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.
Looking into it
Hi lplotnek,
You're right, it seems that the worksheets are slightly mis-numbered and that the one with the questions about the reviews is missing. We are looking into it!
Best wishes,
Rachael
TeachingEnglish Team
Present and correct
All worksheets should now be present and correct!
Best wishes,
Rachael
TeachingEnglish Team