Lesson Overview
Updated lesson, containing brand new exercises that your B1 ESL students will love.
This B1 ESL lesson explores the topic “Should Everyone Learn to Cook?”, helping students develop useful vocabulary and language for talking about cooking, meals, kitchen equipment, cooking methods, and the advantages and disadvantages of cooking at home.
Learners practise key cooking verbs such as chop, stir, peel, pour, bake, boil, grate, and fry, as well as vocabulary for common kitchen equipment and meals. They also read about someone who dislikes cooking and listen to a speaker explain why everyone should learn basic cooking skills.
Through a variety of engaging activities, students practise describing their cooking abilities, discussing cooking habits, understanding an audio recording, giving opinions, making decisions in different cooking situations, and discussing whether cooking is an important life skill.
This lesson is ideal for B1 learners who are developing their ability to talk about food, cooking, everyday skills, personal experiences, and opinions.
- Warm Up: Meals
- Cooking: Rate Yourself
- Cooking: Equipment
- Cooking: Verbs
- Article: Why I Don't Cook
- Audio: Why Everyone Should Cook
- Cooking: Agree or Disagree?
- What Would You Cook?
- Cooking: Picture Round
Homework
Students complete a writing task based on cooking, including describing a meal they can make, discussing meals they would like to learn, describing a good cook, and explaining the advantages and disadvantages of cooking at home.
- Writing Task: Questions
