Describing Food & Taste

A2 · Elementary57 minTravelLesson 4 of 8 · Outline

Aims

Goal: describe how food looks and tastes — with enough taste words that your listener can almost taste it.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: Make me hungry

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: Trying New Food

    Read a 127-word text about Trying New Food

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Taste & Texture Words

    7 items

  3. Practice7 min

    Practice: Match the Food to the Description

    Matching exercise, 6 items

  4. Practice7 min

    Practice: Describe the Food

    Word-ordering exercise, 5 items

  5. Dialogue10 min

    Dialogue: Talk About the Food

    Role-play: You and your friend are eating at a restaurant and describing the food (6 lines)

  6. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Your mission: taste in words

    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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