I absolutely love talking about food in class. I love how different cultures describe food, I love how literal some can be and how persuasive and descriptive others are. I love how totally convinced someone can be that the food from their country/culture is superior to another’s. I love the debates that ensue and all the language that emerges as a result. I love how curious everyone is off each other’s food customs. Food can be the gateway to lessons on question formation, circumlocution, descriptive language, instruction giving, debating and in the case of this lesson, writing skills.

This lesson focuses on describing food tastes and while the context is a food blog, the language (describing food and tastes) and the writing skill (organising a paragraph) are easily relatable to a range of speaking and writing contexts.

Details:

• Level: Pre-Intermediate / Intermediate
• Objective: by the end of the lesson, learners will be able to describe food tastes & write a paragraph that is easy for a reader to follow (e.g. in a blog post about food).
• Vocabulary focus: describing food tastes.
• Grammar focus: conditionals.
• Skills focus: organising a paragraph.