Objectives

Level One/Two

FOOD:
• Identify the most common foods: fruit, vegetables, meat, seafood, poultry, desserts
• Identify meals: breakfast, lunch and dinner
• State/describe likes and dislikes
• State preferences
• Categorize and list common foods
• Discuss basic nutrition
• Identify vocabulary for quantities and containers of food

Junk Food
• Compare junk food and nutritious food

Eating out
• Identify restaurant vocabulary
• Order a meal in a restaurant

The Supermarket
• Identify food items and non-food items
• Identify signs
• Make a shopping list
• Ask for and locate items in market
• Identify abbreviations for U.S. units of weight and measure
• Identify different brands

Level 3 Objectives

FOOD:
• Interpret food labels
• Discuss food safety issues
• Identify utensils and cookware
• Interpret recipes
• Express values about nutrition, packaging, recycling, etc.

Junk Food
• Compare junk food and nutritious food

Eating out
• Discuss restaurant etiquette
• Order a meal in a restaurant
• Identify menu categories
• Calculate tip
• Correct a restaurant order mistake

The Supermarket
• Identify different brands
• Compare brands and prices
• Interpret store ads and specials
• Interpret food storage necessities
• Follow simple directions on packaging to prepare food
• Discuss different types of stores
• Interpret food labels

Web Resources

Note: Most activities can be adapted to any level. Please look over activities for all the levels and adapt as needed for your class!

BEGINNING (LEVEL 1 OR L2)

• Dave's ESL cafe has another helpful list of food vocabulary:
  http://www.eslcafe.com/ideas/sefer.cgi?display:1028675430-25901.txt
• Here is a neat way to reinforce the alphabet AND learn food vocabulary:
  http://members.tripod.com/~ESL4Kids/games/grocery.html
  I'm sure many of you have played this game in some form or another. The format is: "I'm going to the supermarket and I'm going to buy some apples".
  The next person says "I'm going to the supermarket and I'm going to buy
  some apples and some bananas", the next person says "I'm going to the
  supermarket and I'm going to buy apples, bananas, and chocolate milk"
  and so forth.
• Boggle's world has a role play on ordering food in a restaurant:
  http://bogglesworld.com/survival_travel_english/restaurants.htm
  And so does this website:
  http://canadian-living-english.freeservers.com/restaurant/restaurant.htm
  **You could also think about doing a similar activity using menus from
  local restaurants.

• Boggle's world also has a role good play outline for shopping, offering helpful examples of making comparisons:
  http://bogglesworld.com/shopping-lesson-plan.htm

ADVANCED (LEVEL 3 OR L4)

• This activity
  gives an outline for writing a restaurant review. You could either have
  students write about a restaurant they have recently visited, OR have
  them do this after a role play and write about the faux restaurant.
  http://www.millikin.edu/mr/fooddrink/howto.html
• Making a restaurant menu: Basically gets students to come up with their own menu descriptions for various items. http://www.tjf.or.jp/eng/he/hepdf/2_s12_10e.pdf
• Gives a description of a Brit restaurant voted the best in the world (it serves
  bacon and egg icecream), using that as a jumping off point to have
  discussions. Neat activity. If you think it's too easy, be sure to
  click on the link that says "harder lesson"
  http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/0504/050422-britishfood-e.html

More Games, Activities, Ideas

• It may be helpful to bring in some actual menus from local restaurants
  so that students can look over these in a classroom setting.
  intermediate or advanced levels will be able to do more with these,
  like talking about what looks good or bad or interesting or whatever.

BEGINNING (LEVEL 1 OR L2)

• Shopping: Modify the shopping game to focus on food items. Use play money (in our plastic bins next to bookshelf at Kestrel Heights).