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 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.
Activities:
- 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, this lesson includes a practical homework task to reinforce learning. Students are encouraged to complete exercises that extend the lesson, helping them consolidate grammar, vocabulary, practise writing, and reflect on the topic.
Activities:
- Article: The Benefits of Cooking.
- Writing Activity.
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