Explore Delicious Foods While Learning English!
This beginner-friendly ESL unit from SuperEnglishESL.com introduces young learners to the world of food! Through engaging activities, vocabulary building, and interactive discussions, students will explore different foods, cooking, and tastes while developing fundamental English skills. This unit is perfect for online ESL teachers, group classes, and 1:1 instruction, providing structured yet flexible lessons that make learning English fun and interactive!
With this five-lesson unit, students will build their confidence in speaking, reading, and forming simple sentences while learning about different types of food, cooking methods, and taste descriptions.
Students will learn about different types of meat (beef, pork, chicken) and where they come from. They will also explore the role of a butcher and practice asking and answering questions about meat purchases.
Lesson Features: ✔️ Warm-up: Picture memory game
✔️ Reading & Discussion: “At the Butcher Shop” – a story about Ms. Kim the butcher and her customers
✔️ Vocabulary Focus: Beef, pork, butcher, shop, cook, buy
✔️ Grammar & Sentence Structures: Possessive adjectives (my, your, his, her)
✔️ Phonics: Long “i” words (mild, wild, child)
✔️ Interactive Elements: Role-play a shopping conversation at the butcher shop
✔️ Real-Life Applications: Understanding different types of meat and where they come from
This lesson explores different ways to prepare food, focusing on mixing ingredients for soup and salad. Students will learn action verbs related to cooking and practice asking about food preparation.
Lesson Features: ✔️ Warm-up: Talking about jobs in food service
✔️ Reading & Discussion: “Yummy Soup and Salad” – a story about Chef Ben buying ingredients
✔️ Vocabulary Focus: Mix, soup, salad, vegetables, fresh, cook
✔️ Grammar & Sentence Structures: Possessive adjectives in daily conversations
✔️ Phonics: Long “o” words (cold, gold, colt)
✔️ Interactive Elements: Cooking role-play – students pretend to mix ingredients
✔️ Real-Life Applications: Talking about healthy eating and making food at home
Students will discover different taste words (sweet, spicy, salty) as they visit a fictional food fair. They will practice describing flavors and expressing likes and dislikes.
Lesson Features: ✔️ Warm-up: Word chain game – naming foods that start with the last letter of another word
✔️ Reading & Discussion: “Tasting at the Food Fair” – a story about kids tasting different foods
✔️ Vocabulary Focus: Taste, sweet, spicy, salty, sour, yummy
✔️ Grammar & Sentence Structures: Asking and answering questions about food preferences
✔️ Phonics: More long vowel sounds (host, ghost, kind, mind)
✔️ Interactive Elements: Food tasting role-play – students describe imaginary foods
✔️ Real-Life Applications: Using adjectives to describe food in restaurants and markets
This lesson introduces condiments and sauces while reinforcing taste vocabulary. Students will read about different meals at the mall and discuss favorite sauces and toppings.
Lesson Features: ✔️ Warm-up: Rhyming words game
✔️ Reading & Discussion: “A Day at the Mall” – a story about friends choosing meals
✔️ Vocabulary Focus: Sauce, BBQ, spicy, mix, salt, sweet
✔️ Grammar & Sentence Structures: Using possessive adjectives correctly in sentences
✔️ Phonics: Long vowel practice (scold, fold, gold)
✔️ Interactive Elements: Creating and describing a favorite meal
✔️ Real-Life Applications: Expressing food preferences at a restaurant
The final lesson reviews all vocabulary, grammar, and phonics from the unit through fun and engaging activities.
Assessment Features: ✔️ Warm-up: Rhyming words challenge
✔️ Assessment Tasks:
✅ ESL learners (A1 Beginner level)
✅ Young learners (ages 6-10) in online or in-person ESL lessons
✅ ELL students practicing food vocabulary and simple sentence structures
✅ Teachers looking for structured, interactive ESL lessons on food topics
📄 Lesson Previews & Worksheets
🎲 Vocabulary & Speaking Games
📚 Reading Passages & Discussion Questions
🔊 Phonics Practice & Listening Exercises
📌 Use real food pictures or props to help young learners connect vocabulary with real-world objects.
📌 Encourage role-playing (shopping, cooking, tasting) to make speaking activities more engaging.
📌 Incorporate fun games like “Guess the Food” to review vocabulary interactively.
🔹 ESL food lesson plans for kids
🔹 Beginner ESL food vocabulary worksheets
🔹 Teaching food and cooking to young ESL learners
🔹 ELL activities about food and taste
🔹 Fun ESL phonics and grammar for kids
This interactive and engaging ESL unit ensures that beginner-level students learn essential food-related vocabulary, grammar, and phonics while having fun in the process! 🍔🥗🍲