Lesson Overview 

This A2 ESL lesson explores the topic “How the World Eats”, helping students talk about food, diets, eating habits, and different cuisines using simple, natural English.

Learners explore six diets from around the world, including the Mediterranean, Japanese, Indian, Mexican, Korean, and American diets. They describe food and meals, compare eating habits, discuss their own preferences, and learn useful vocabulary and collocations connected to food and eating.

Through a range of fun and engaging ESL activities, students practise describing pictures, identifying information from a reading, discussing food choices, and sharing their opinions about different diets and eating habits around the world.

This lesson is ideal for A2 learners who want to develop their speaking skills while practising useful language for discussing food, preferences, healthy eating, and different cultures.

1. Warm Up: Food to image. 
2. Grammar: Comparatives
3. Pre-Reading: Foods. 
4. Article: Diets Around the World
5. Discussion
6. Food Collocations. 
7. Picture Round. 
8. This or That? 
9. Name Game. 

Homework

There is an excellent homework task to supplement this awesome A2 ESL lesson plan on diets. Students are challenged to read an awesome article before answering a series of questions about the article. Activity layout:

1. Article: What Makes a Healthy Diet? 
2. Writing Task: Questions