Day 38

Hi,

This fun English worksheet will help our students remember food vocabulary. This is a printable find the word activity that involves the students finding the food words.

Vocabulary:

pizza

bread

chicken

fish

carrots

potatoes

eggs

banana

cheese

tomato

This is a pretty simple discussion lesson plan to get students talking about food from different perspectives. It can be used as part of a lesson, or supplemented with activities, games, and so on. I found this was a good lesson to do when I was still getting to know students because it is a pretty universal topic and as a foreigner in a foreign country, students love telling me about their traditional food. I talk about US foods and holidays here because I am American but obviously it could be used to talk about your own native cuisine instead. If you are American, it’s a great way to introduce Thanksgiving or other traditional holidays that revolve around food!

Objectives

• To promote fluency and discussion
• To practice vocabulary related to food, tastes and ingredients
• To encourage students to describe in detail
• To talk about holidays and traditions and customs related to food

Materials

• Discussion Questions
• Food Adjective Cloze or Brainstorm Worksheet
• Pictures of typical American food (or food from your culture)

To prepare, put pictures of some typical American food on the board. For example:

but without the captions. Ask students to guess what these typical foods are. Then explain that in the US we also eat a lot of international foods. See if they can guess where these typical “American” foods come from.

Now ask students to name some of their national foods. Prompt them to describe the food in detail: what it is made out of, how it is made, how it is eaten, what it looks like, what it tastes like, etc. If you are familiar with their national cuisine you can prompt them. If you are not familiar, you can use your ignorance to elicit details. You can also get into what international foods have been absorbed into their culture and are now typical foods.

• Vocabulary Worksheet
• Fruit Pictures ESL Worksheet
•  Fruit Game
• Food ESL Questionnaire
• English Food Shopping List
• Food Shopping List
• Crossword
• Food Quiz
• Huge Set Of Flashcards