ESL 4 Pictures 1 Word
ESL 4 Pictures 1 Word is a simple activity for lower level young learners (8+) and teens. Due to the popularity of the last Four Picture One Word post, I have made a second round for your classes to enjoy. This is level two and has some more challenging words for your class to discover. For those […]
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 […]
This post focuses on Christmas activities and games for the ESL classroom. Ranging from young learners to adults, these activities are sure to bring festive cheer to any classroom!
Christmas Taboo
Activity Time: 15 mins +
Materials required: a copy of the printable.
Level: Young learners and teens.
Printable: Download
Christmas Taboo is a simple game you can play in class to revise Christmas vocabulary. The aim of the game is simple; each person takes a card and they must describe the word on the card without saying or using that word or any of the additional words written on that card.
Christmas Quiz
Materials required: a copy of the printable
Level: Young learners.
This simple quiz can be used to test your classes knowledge of Santa Claus. This quiz can be used in a number of different ways, but I’ve personally had success with putting the class into teams of pairs and using it with The Bomb Game. To add to this quiz, get your students to write one question each about Christmas. You can use this quiz with “bomb” for Smart board or with the printable version.
Conversation questions
Activity Time: 10 mins +
Materials required: a copy of the printable
Level: Teens and Adults all levels.
Printable: Download
Over 25 different questions to get the class talking about Christmas.
Christmas Video Facts
This is a great simple activity to practice their reading and writing skills while talking about some unusual facts about Christmas.
Materials required: A computer to play the video
Level: Teens and Adults Intermediate +
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ESL Christmas Quiz – This great no-prep Christmas quiz is great for teens and adults and covers Christmas cultural knowledge, vocabulary, Christmas music.
ESL Christmas Tongue Twisters – A collection of Christmas tongue twisters to practice pronunciation with young learners and teen and even adults.
Christmas Story Recall – In this activity, students watch/listen to a short Christmas story and then they try and rewrite/tell the story later.
ESL Christmas Charades – This activity is a great no-prep game for teens and adults to practice Christmas vocabulary.
Just a minute Christmas Challenge – In this activity students need to speak about a Christmas photo for one minute. This activity is great for teens and adults who are preparing for the B1 Exam (PET).
ESL Christmas Debate – In this activity, students have a debate on different statements related to Christmas. This activity is great for teens and adults with a higher level.
4 Christmas Activities
This post focuses on Christmas activities and games for the ESL classroom. Ranging from young learners to adults, these activities are sure to bring festive cheer to any classroom! Christmas Taboo Activity Time: 15 mins + Materials required: a copy of the printable. Level: Young learners and teens. Printable: Download Christmas Taboo is a simple game you can play in […]
5 First Day Activities
5 First Day ESL Activities The first day of term is probably the most difficult day for any teacher but especially so for new teachers. Having been there myself, I decided I would put together a post of some easy first class Ice breakers and activities. This post is for kids and young learners but […]