This lesson plan teaches your beginner ESL students the basic vocabulary for completing an order in a restaurant. Activities include warm-ups, skill-using exercises, a short video role play and and an open-ended role play, and reflection questions. Students will understand cultural nuances and practice standard restaurant interactions while improving their speaking, listening, and reading skills.
Category Archives: Food
What’s new: Week of Oct. 28/24
This lesson plan for beginner ESL students focuses on basic grocery items and sections, such as the produce and meat sections. Students will categorize food items, learn to ask for help in locating items, and engage in video/audio activities, discussions, vocabulary practice, and review exercises to reinforce their understanding.
What’s new: Week of Oct. 21/24
Help your beginner ESL students learn the basic vocabulary and phrases needed to make a simple order in a coffee shop. This lesson plan moves your students through the standard questions and answers in this kind of exchange.
The lesson plan includes opening and closing discussion questions, vocabulary practice, a short video, and an open-ended role play to improve your students’ practical communication skills.
What’s new: Week of Sept. 30/24
This lesson plan will help your beginner ESL students engage in a standard conversation at the grocery checkout. The lesson plan includes vocabulary practice, comprehension questions, role plays, and video activities.
What’s new: Week of Sept. 23/24
This lesson plan teaches your beginning ESL students the basic vocabulary needed to follow a recipe. Your students will learn the difference between recipe ingredients and instructions (including some common cooking verbs such as chopping, pouring, stirring, etc.). The plan also offers a short video and various vocabulary practice exercises, including audio activities.
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