ISE Foundation Food Lesson Plan
Are you looking for interesting lessons to help students prepare for the ISE Foundation Food conversation area? Here is a fun lesson that you can use with your Trinity ISE Foundation students to practise the vocabulary of food and other language through reading and writing menus.
In the download below, you can find a lesson plan to help students practise the language they need for Trinity’s ISE Foundation exam, specifically the language related to food. The students read a menu and answer questions about it, they write their own menu using the same template, and then they write an informal letter to a friend about a meal they had in a café.
How to use the ISE Foundation Food lesson plan
- At the beginning of the lesson, revise food vocabulary. A fun way to do this is through playing ‘category tennis’. Split the class into two and say a food category, e.g. fruit, different types of meat, or fizzy drinks. One team ‘serves’ to start by naming a food from that category. The other team returns the ball by saying a different word. Keep going until one team either can’t think of a word, or they repeat a word that has already been said. The other team scores a point – it’s 15-love ? Keep saying categories until a team wins a game. Some more food categories are: vegetables; carbohydrates; fast food; food that is brown/green/red; hot drinks; Italian food, etc.
- Next, show students the menu and ask them to read it and decide what they would eat. This encourages the students to read quickly and for a purpose. Students tell their partner and then the class what they would like from the menu.
- Put the students into pairs and ask them to work together to complete the questions about the menu. You could make this a competition by seeing who can finish first with all the right answers. Early finishers can write their own questions about the menu.
- In the next part of the lesson, the students work in pairs, using the menu template to design their own menu.
- Pairs swap menus to complete the writing task. Remind students to plan what they want to write in each paragraph before beginning. and to check their work when they have finished. There is a sample answer that you can use to show the students what they are expected to write.
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File: ISE Foundation Food lesson plan
Why not try our other ISE Foundation resources too? You can find conversation question cards, reading texts, writing questions and sample answers, vocabulary worksheets… and more!