FCE Speaking Activities
This post looks at two different FCE speaking activities to practice speaking skills with exam students, but both of these activities can be used with lower level students. These activities are easy to adapt and as such can be used regularly to practice for Part 2 and 3 of the FCE and CAE exams. Wordle headlines This activity is a […]
Getting teens interested in topics can be hard work. Videos can be a great way to get them and even adults more engaged in a topic.
This week’s post looks at four different activities that can help practice key skills and develop interest and knowledge in the topic of food.
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Fast Food Facts
Materials required: Students require pen/pencil and a piece of paper
Skills practiced: Speaking, listening and reading.
Level: Pre-intermediate +Method:
1. Put the class in pairs. Tell the students they are going to watch a video.
3. Tell the students they are going to hear twenty facts in one minute. Tell them that they must listen and write as many as they can. After they hear the list for the first time, they will get a few minutes to check their answers with their partner. Then, they will listen a final time.
(Note: It is not essential that your students get all of the facts.)
4. Ask the students to look at the facts and pick one piece of information that they found interesting or surprising. Discuss the facts.
#2 Each day, one in four Americans visit a fast food restaurant.
#3 60% of adults and 16% of children are overweight.
#4 A mustard stain will damage a good shirt.
#5 French fries are the most eaten vegetable in America
#6 You would have to walk for seven hours to burn off the calories from a Coke, fries and Big Mac.
#7 Sometimes chicken isn’t chicken.
#8 Burger King’s Light Italian still has 18 percent of your daily fat.
#9 Cute cows die
#10 McDonalds distrubutes more toys per year than ToysRUs
#11 Children who eat fast food gain about 6 pounds (2.7Kg) more per year than normal.
#12 100,000 deaths each year have been linked to obesity.
#13 Love handles aren’t lovely.
#14 Daily consumption can lead to a psychological addiction.
#15 Fast food compromises diet quality by displacing healthy food.
#16 Obesity has been linked to 20 physical problems and diseases.
#17 Only seven items on McDonalds menu don’t contain sugar.
#18 Taco Bell equals frequent bathroom visits.
#19 Obesity will pass smoking as the leading cause of death in America
#20 A diet hight in sodium, fat and cholesterol can lead to heart disease.
ESL Food Conversation Questions
Materials required: A print out of the questions below. Download
Skills practiced: Speaking, listening and reading.
Level: Pre-intermediate +
If you could only eat one thing every day for your entire life, what would it be? Why? |
Food Memory Challenge
Materials required: It’s optional to project the image below to use as a guide and visual.
Skills practiced: Speaking, vocabulary.
Level: Any levelMethod
1. Explain to the class that they are going to play a game. The first student starts with A and they must say a fruit or food that begins with A. e.g Apple
2. The second student must say a food item that begins with B e.g Banana.
3. Keep going student after student. If a student is unable to answer, they are eliminated. The game ends when there is only one student left.
Celebrity Chef
Activity Time: 10 Minutes +
Materials required: Video shown below
Skills practiced: Speaking, Listening and Writing.
Level: Lower intermediate +
ESL Food Activities
Getting teens interested in topics can be hard work. Videos can be a great way to get them and even adults more engaged in a topic. This week’s post looks at four different activities that can help practice key skills and develop interest and knowledge in the topic of food. Don’t forget to follow/add me on twitter and […]
Valentine’s Day Explained
Materials required: Each student needs a piece of paper and a pen.
Skills practiced: Listening, writing and speaking.
Level: Teens and adults. Lower Intermediate +
Method
In their pairs, ask the students to finish the statement.Here are some quotes to give them some inspiration:“Love is like a friendship caught on fire” Bruce Lee
“Love is only a little foolishness with a lot of curiosity” George Bernard Shaw
“Love is an irresistible desire to irresistibly desired” Robert Frost
“Love is the flower you’ve got yo let grow” John Lennon
“Love is like a red red rose” Robert BurnsPlease contribute
Please send on your classes “love is..” creations to me either on twitter @eslkidgames, #eslloveis or via email where they will be featured with my classes’ quotes to spread the love this Valentine’s day.
Valentine’s Day Facts
Materials required: Printed infographic for each set of students
Skills practiced: Listening, writing and speaking.
Level: Teens and adults. Lower Intermediate
Method
2. Give each group their own infographic. Ask them to read the infographic and create a mini presentation on the top five most interesting facts they read on their infographic.
3. Each group tells the other groups the information that have read and the class discuss the information.
4. The whole class then picks the top five pieces of information discussed. If you have time you could encourage the class to develop their own infographic based on their top five facts.
Valentine’s Day ESL Questions
Materials required: a copy of the printable
Level: Teens and Adults all levels.
Printable: Download Get the class talking with over 15 Valentine’s Day questions.
Valentine’s Day Board Game – Discuss Valentine’s Day with this interactive online board game for levels B1+ (lower intermediate and above, suitable for teens and adults.
Guess the Valentine’s Day Idiom – In this warmer / cooler activity for teens and adults, students need to guess the Valentine’s Day idiom. This challenging activity is a simple and fun way to introduce students to idioms and expressions related to Valentine’s Day.
Updated 17.January.2021
3 ESL Valentine’s Day Activities
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Stop The Bus
Stop The Bus is a simple and fun vocabulary game for any level or age group. This game will quickly become one of those regularly requested games in class. Activity Time: 5 – 10 mins +Materials required: A piece of paper for each team to write on. Skills practiced: Vocabulary revision, brainstorming and quick thinking. Level: All levels (Young learners, teens and […]