ESL Lesson Plan Cooking

Level: A2
Time: 90 min
Media: Article

Lesson Overview

This A2 General English lesson is all about cooking at home. You and your students will explore vocabulary and phrases to talk about ingredients, recipes, and kitchen tools.

Through engaging exercises, learners will practise the present continuous tense to describe what people are doing while cooking. These activities help students build confidence…

This A2 General English lesson is all about cooking at home. You and your students will explore vocabulary and phrases to talk about ingredients, recipes, and kitchen tools.

Through engaging exercises, learners will practise the present continuous tense to describe what people are doing while cooking. These activities help students build confidence in speaking and connect English learning to everyday life.

Creative discussions, recipe-based tasks, and structured exercises make this lesson a practical and enjoyable way to develop English skills, practise key grammar, and explore the joys of cooking.

Activity Layout

Warm up: Meals.
Utensils.
Cooking verbs.
Present continuous.
Recipe 1.
Recipe 2.
Debate
Discussion questions

Homework

As with all adult lesson plans on ESL Pals, there is a homework task to supplement this A2 ESL lesson plan on supermarkets. Students are challenged to complete a series of exercises which follows on from the lesson.

Article: The Benefits of Cooking.
Writing Activity.

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