Trying Local Food

B1 · Intermediate57 minTravelLesson 3 of 8 · Outline

Aims

Goal: ask about an unfamiliar local dish and order it with confidence — ingredients, spice level, and the local speciality.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: The dish you can't pronounce

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: A Taste of Thailand

    Read a 238-word text about A Taste of Thailand

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Food Culture Words

    7 items

  3. Practice7 min

    Practice: Match Food Words to Meanings

    Matching exercise, 5 items

  4. Practice7 min

    Practice: Food Sentences

    Gap-fill exercise, 5 items

  5. Dialogue10 min

    Dialogue: Order Local Food

    Role-play: You're at a local restaurant asking about the menu (7 lines)

  6. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Your mission: order the unknown

    3 discussion questions

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Target vocabulary

In a Tuton account these words become your student's vocabulary deck, so they come back in practice between lessons.

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