What is beauty?

You are going to

• discuss fashion, beauty and health
• practise words to describe people
• listen to someone talking about ideas of fashion, beauty and health

1) Discuss in pairs / write a list
In 60 seconds how many words can you think of which describe a person's appearance?
Make a note / write a list of them
eg tall, short...










2) Match
A) Choose the right category for each of the words below. Is it Build, Hair, Height or Opinion?







B) Now make a table and put all the words from the exercise and your list in the right column

Build	Hair	Height	Opinion
		tall

3) Discuss

• What is beauty?
• What makes someone beautiful or attractive?
• Where do we get our ideas of beauty from?
• Do ideas of beauty vary around the world?

4) Watch
Watch the clip "Food for Thought" below.
You are going to watch a woman called Mable talk about the first time she came to the UK.
A) Listen and answer

• Where does Mabel get her idea of beauty from?
• Why is she scared of coming to England?
• What does she learn about the British?

B) Watch again and fill in the gaps in the sentences

5) Discuss

• Why does Mabel think that beauty is what she sees in the magazines?
• What do you think “junk in the trunk” means? Junk = rubbish. Trunk (American) = the place where you put the bags in a car (boot in UK English). Can you guess what she means when describing people?
• Why do you think it is easier for an African to eat well and be healthy than for the British?
• Is it easy to eat healthily in your country? 
• Do you eat healthily?
• She says "the magazines show what the British want to look like."  Do you think this is true for all nationalities?
• Why do we want to look like the people in the magazines?
• Why does Mabel think she is lucky at the end?

6) Do the crossword

Click on a number and type in your answer. Click check to see the answers.

All the words are used to describe people.

Crossword printable version here

Printable exercises here






7) Play a game
20 questions.
Someone in the class thinks of a famous person. The others ask Yes / No questions to guess the name of the person.
- Is it a man? Yes it is
- Is he tall? - Yes he is.
- Has he got long hair? Yes he has

Continue until you guess. If you can't guess in 20 questions you lose!








8) Discuss / Write

A) In Pairs. Describe someone. Talk about their appearance and their personality. Don't say their name. Read your description to your partner or to the class. Can they guess who you are describing?


B) - IELTS

• The Fashion and clothing industry is becoming increasingly important in modern society. Is this a good or bad thing?

• Eating a balanced diet is the most important factor for a healthy life. To what extent do you agree?

More

• What Britain Loves Advertising, Beginners, Gerunds, Life in the UK, Present Simple, Travel and Tourism

• What's cooking? - 1. "Bubble and Squeak" Crossword, Elementary, Food, Imperatives, Instructions, Listening, Recipes

• Life in the UK; The British and how to understand them Discussion Activities, Elementary, Intermediate, Life in the UK, Present Simple, Reading, Webquest, Writing a report

• What is the weight of the human race? Advice, Crossword, FCE, Food, Health, IELTS, Jamie Oliver, Listening, Obesity, Obligation, Writing, Intermediate, Upper Intermediate 

 

What's cooking? - 2. Strawberry jam / A full English breakfast

You are going to

• watch some food recipe videos
• practise the language of cooking
• practise sequencers and time expressions
• practise giving instructions
• do some gap-fill exercises and a food vocabulary crossword
• write a recipe

Discuss

• Do you like cooking?
• Do you know how to cook?
• What's your favourite recipe?
• What are the ingredients?
• How long does it take to prepare and cook?
• Where did you learn to cook it?
• Do you know how to make strawberry jam?
• Do you know how to make a full English breakfast?

List
Write a list of all the cooking words you can think of in 60 seconds

Starter
Watch the strawberry jam recipe

• How do you make strawberry jam?
• What are the ingredients?
• How many words from your list did the presenter use?

B) Watch again. 
Look at this gap-fill exercise and fill in the gaps with one of the words from the list

Main course
Watch "How to make a traditional full English breakfast"
Find out

• What are the ingredients?
• What utensils do you need?

http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-make-a-traditional-full-english-breakfast

A) What words do we use to say when or in what order things happen?
eg After that, then... They are called sequencers. Can you think of any more?





B) Look at this gap-fill exercise and fill in the gaps with one of the words from the list

Write

Write a recipe of a food you know how to cook

• List the ingredients
• Write the instructions
• Use some of the sequencers, time expressions and verbs in the exercises

Dessert
Do the cooking crossword. 
Too easy? Try this more difficult crossword here

Printable crosswords here (Int) and here (U.Int)
Printable exercises here





More
Sequencers
http://esl.about.com/od/grammarintermediate/a/sequence.htm
Adverb Clauses with Time Expressions
http://esl.about.com/od/grammaradvanced/a/adverb_clauses.htm


The British breakfast
http://designerlessons.org/2012/07/04/esl-lesson-plan-a-full-english-breakfast/

British Food 
http://istudyabroad.wordpress.com/2012/09/01/exploring-british-food/


Activities
Esolcourses Food and Drink activities

Quiz-Busters - Food Quiz With Pronouns

BBC Lingo - Food and cooking


Recipes
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/

http://foodupload.com/text_photo_recipes


Don't eat too much!
http://efllecturer.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/what-is-weight-of-human-race.html

No more...

What's cooking? - 1. "Bubble and Squeak"

You are going to

• watch a food recipe video
• practise the language of cooking
• practise imperatives
• do a gap-fill exercise
• do a food vocabulary crossword
• write a recipe

1) Discuss

• Do you like cooking?
• Do you know how to cook?
• What's your favourite recipe?
• What are the ingredients?
• How long does it take to prepare and cook?
• Where did you learn to cook it?
• Do you know what "Bubble and Squeak" is?

2) List
A) Write a list of all the cooking words you can think of in 60 seconds

3) Watch "How to make Bubble and Squeak"

Find out

• What is "Bubble and Squeak"? 
• What are the ingredients?
• Does the presenter use any cooking words from your list?

.
Watch the video. 
Click on this link  http://video.about.com/britishfood/How-to-Make-Bubble-and-Squeak.htm and the video will open in a new tab.





4) Watch again
A) Look at the list of cooking words below.  Do you know all of them? Look up the words you don't know.
Watch the video again. How many of the words in the list do you hear? Put "Yes" or "No"









B) Look at this recipe and fill in the gaps with one of the expressions from the list

5) Write

Write a recipe of a food you know how to cook

• List the ingredients
• Write the instructions
• Use some of the verbs in the exercise

8) Do the vocabulary crossword

Printable exercise here
Printable crossword here

More

Now try this one
What's cooking? - 2. Strawberry jam / A full English breakfast  British Culture, Crossword, Differentiated Exercises, FCE, Food, IELTS, Imperatives, Instructions, Intermediate, Listening, Recipes, Sequencers, Time Expressions, Upper Intermediate 


Other Food Activities
Making a sandwich with Mr Bean

Esolcourses Food and Drink activities

Quiz-Busters - Food Quiz With Pronouns

BBC Lingo - Food and cooking

Recipes
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/

http://foodupload.com/text_photo_recipes

Tom And Jerry - "Feedin' The Kiddie"

You are going to 

• watch a Tom and Jerry cartoon
• practise food, colours and the present simple
• do some gap-fill exercises

1) Watch the cartoon

Look at the words. Watch the cartoon below. Can you see them in the cartoon?  
Watch and put "Yes" or "No"

Tom And Jerry Feedin The Kiddie Episode 107 (WatchCartoonOnline.Us) 

2) Can you remember the colours?

3) Look at the pictures. What can you see?

4) Summary. Write a word in the gaps

5) A, An or Some?

More

Printable worksheets are here

Food activities for young learners http://www.anglomaniacy.pl/foodTopic.htm

Pages for colouring http://www.tomandjerryonline.com/coloring.cfm

What is the weight of the human race?

You are going to

• talk about obesity, eating and health
• read a text and do a gap-fill (with differentiated options for FCE and IELTS students)
• listen to a radio discussion on obesity and do a true / false exercise
• look at / listen to some comments by Jamie Oliver on solutions to the obesity problem and do a gap-fill exercise
• write an IELTS style question on the subject of obesity, food and health
• do a crossword to practise the vocabulary used in this post

1) Discuss

• Do you have a healthy diet?
• What is a healthy / unhealthy diet?
• Do some nations have better diets than others?

2) Watch

In 2009 www.globalpost.com compiled a list of the Top 10 Fattest Countries in the world based on national health surveys WHO compiled between 2000 and 2008.

• What countries do you think were on the list?

Watch the video and find out.

3) Discuss

• Is your country on the list?
• What do you think causes people to become overweight?
• Why are we all getting fatter?

4) Read

The Obesity Epidemic
Why are we getting fatter?
Read the text below and do the gap-fill to find out

Exam options

• Click here if you want to do the same text adapted for FCE practice
• Click here if you want to do the same text adapted for IELTS practice

5) Listen

• What do you think is the combined weight of the human race? If you added all our weights together what would it come to?

Listen and find out

listen to ‘What is the weight of the human race?’ on Audioboo

Listen again and do the true / false exercise

 6) Read

• What solutions can you think of to prevent world obesity?

A) Read these quotes from a speech Jamie Oliver made at TED (or watch the clip below)
What solutions does he give?



B) Now fill in the gaps with the correct word from the list.

C) Look at the sentences again.

1. Which sentences describe the problem?
2. Which sentences offer solutions?
3. What language does Jamie use to emphasize the urgency for solutions? 

Answers - highlight below

1. 1 - 6  describe the problem
2. 8 - 14  offer solutions
3. Urgency - have (got) to, need to, it's (profoundly) important that... , it's time for..., most importantly

If you have time watch the clip.

http://www.ted.com/talks/jamie_oliver.html

7) Write (IELTS)

Plan and write the following essay
Obesity is becoming a serious problem in many countries. 
Explain the main causes and effects of this problem, and suggest some possible solutions. (250 words)

8) Crossword

Practise some of the vocabulary used in this post.

Printable worksheets are here
Crossword here

9) More

More reading and learning activities
Learning Activities

• Obesity http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/0602/060203-obesity.html
• Problems with Food http://www.eslhandouts.com/worksheets/problems-with-food-vocabulary-lesson/
• BBC Learning English - Fit or Fat? http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/newsenglish/britain/fit.shtml
• Supersize Me http://efllecturer.blogspot.com.es/2012/05/supersize-me.html

Reading

• 10 fattest countries
• USA is no longer the fattest country
• Body Mass Index 
• Physical activity guidelines for adults
• www.jamieoliver.com/

Obesity Calculator “Obese” is someone with a BMI of 30 or higher. Use this calculator by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute to see how you score http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/efl-esl-resources.php?c=6

 

Supersize Me!

You are going to 

• watch a clip from the film "Supersize Me" about fast food
• do a gap-fill listening exercise
• discuss the health aspects of eating fast food
• discuss whether the state should prohibit unhealthy activities
• write an argument essay based on the topic

1) Discuss

• Do you ever eat in fast food restaurants?  Why / Why not?
• What does “Super size me” mean?
• Have you seen the film?
• Is Fast Food good for you?  Why / Why not?
• Do you think Fast Food restaurants are responsible for making people fat or ill?
• What would happen if you only ate Fast Food for 1 month?

You are going to watch 2 clips from Morgan Spurlock's documentary Supersize Me. For 30 days Morgan Spurlock only ate at McDonald's, eating everything on the menu at least once. At the end of the film he examines what effect this diet has had on him.
You can buy the DVD on amazon here




2) Before you watch / Vocabulary Check
Do you know these words?
OBESE = FAT
SUED (To Sue) = To take someone to court for damages
CORONARY = Heart attack
JOINTS = Restaurants
FRIVOLOUS = Silly
STRAIGHT = Consecutively, following = 30 days straight.

3) Watch the clip

Why did 2 girls try to sue McDonalds?
What is Morgan Spurlock going to do for 1 month?

4) Gap-fill

Now do the gap-fill. Fill in the gaps with the right number or word.
Watch the clip again if you need to.

5) Discuss
What do you think happened after 30 days of eating nothing but fast food?

• Did he get fatter?
• Was he ill?
• How did he feel?

6) Watch
Watch the end of the film.

1. How much weight did he gain?
2. What happened to his liver?
3. What happened to his cholesterol?
4. Did he get fatter?
5. How much more likely is he to have a heart failure?
6. How did he feel?
7. What happened to his sex life?
8. Did he become addicted to fast food?

Answers and printable exercises - here

7) Discuss

• If fast food is unhealthy, should it be banned or restricted or is eating it a matter of personal choice?
• If you think it is a matter of personal choice, should people also be allowed to do other unhealthy or addictive things like drink alcohol, smoke or take illegal drugs? Where do you draw the line between allowing one unhealthy activity and prohibiting or restricting another?
• Should the government or state tell us what not to eat, drink, smoke or do with our bodies? Is the state trying to interfere with the individual's personal freedom and choice? Can these initiatives ever be successful or are they a waste of money?
• How do a person's unhealthy habits affect the state or society?

8) Write
Write an answer to this question.
To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statement? "Fast food is addictive and unhealthy and it should be restricted in the same way that alcohol, cigarettes and drugs are."

More
 

Originally via: OnlineSchools.org

Fast food facts
http://www.vivavegie.org/101book/text/nolink/social/supersizeme.htm

Breakfast with Eric and Ernie

You are going to

• discuss breakfast
• look at breakfast / kitchen words
• watch a video about breakfast
• practise asking and answering questions in the present simple
• practise using auxiliaries in the present simple - Do, Don't, Does, Doesn't
• describe what you do for breakfast
  

Teacher's note. This activity is designed to practise the present simple. By substituting Did for Do / Does it can also practise the past. Students can describe the activity in the past if they know the past forms of eat, drink, listen, make, put, throw, catch, beat (eggs), squeeze, open, close, toss (pancakes), cut, take

Revise and practise the present simple here http://efllecturer.blogspot.com/2011/04/present-simple.html


Scroll down for the SlideRocket presentation version of this post

Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise

Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise were two famous British comedians. This clip shows how they make breakfast when they are listening to the radio.

Discuss

1) What time do you have breakfast?

2) What do you eat and drink for breakfast?
    Do you

• drink tea?
• drink coffee?
• drink orange juice?
• eat a cereal?
• eat toast?
• eat bacon and eggs?
• eat biscuits?
• eat pancakes?
• make your breakfast?

3) Look at the photo. What can you see on the table?
 

4) What is your kitchen like? Describe it.


5) Have you got these in your kitchen?

milk	knife
bowls	kettle
cups	teapot
tray	bread
plates	toaster
cupboards	lemons
eggs

6) What other things have you got in your kitchen? Make a list in 1 minute.eg kettle, cooker...

Watch the clip

1) Vocabulary check
What do these words mean?

throw, catch, slices, beat (eggs), squeeze, open, close, toss (pancakes), cut, take

2) Look at the photos. What are their names?

Eric

Ernie

3a) Look at the list of breakfast activities before you watch.
Put their names next to the activities you see them do. After you watch do the interactive exercises below the video
 

listen to the radio √ = Eric and Ernie	beat the eggs √ = Ernie
eat breakfast cereal	cut the lemons √ = Eric
drink coffee = X (They don't drink coffee)	squeeze lemons
eat biscuits	toss pancakes
throw slices of bread	put water in the tea pot
catch the bread	make the tea
put bread in the toaster	catch the toast
open the cupboards	take sausages out of the fridge

Watch

3b) How much can you remember? Choose the correct answer

Practise

Ask and answer questions
For example

• Does Eric catch the bread? Yes he does
• Does Ernie put the bread in the toaster. No he doesn't, Eric puts the bread in the toaster

Continue...

Revise and practise the present simple here http://efllecturer.blogspot.com/2011/04/present-simple.html

Write

Describe what you do for breakfast
I have breakfast at 8 o'clock. I drink...

Practice of past simple

Look at the pictures at the end of the presentation below

Tell the story in the past. Use the vocabulary from the exercises and these verbs in the past; eat, drink, listen, make, put, throw, catch, beat (eggs), squeeze, open, close, toss (pancakes), cut, take

For example;  This morning Eric and Ernie had breakfast. They ate cereal and listened to the radio…

Breakfast with Eric and Ernie from David Mainwood

Making Potato Chips - IELTS Describing a process / Passive

1. How do they make potato chips / crisps?
2. You are going to watch a video which shows the process 
3. You are going to write a description of the process using the passive and some sequencing words 

A) Look at these verbs. Check you know the meanings

manufacture / drop / move / take / wash / rinse / sort / peel / slice / fry / salt / shake / dry / cool / pack / seal / transport

B) Do you know the participles?

Highlight below for the answers

manufactured / dropped / moved / taken / washed / rinsed / sorted / peeled / sliced / fried / salted / shaken / dried / cooled / packed / sealed / transported

C) Check you know these words

conveyor belt / chute / tank / oil / packet

D) Using the present simple passive

• The passive is associated with an impersonal formal style. It is often used in notices, announcements and describing processes.
• Check you know how to make the present simple passive with this presentation

Passive present simple from David Mainwood

E) You can use these words to describe the sequence of events

• To begin with
• First of all
• Firstly
• Secondly, thirdly, etc
• Then
• Next
• After that
• Subsequently
• Eventually
• Finally

F) Watch the clip / Writing

• Describe the process using the vocabulary given above. Try and use as many passives as you can.
• Don't forget to say what the process is in the introduction. The video shows ...
• Write a final sentence which concludes the process. The crisps are now ready to be delivered to the shops.

G) Read about the manufacture of potato crisps here

http://www.hyfoma.com/en/content/food-branches-processing-manufacturing/fruit-vegetable-potato/potato/crisps/

H) Related reading for writing task 1 IELTS

• Natural Disasters -  BBC animated guides http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7533964.stm
• Descring a process http://www.ielts-exam.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=213&Itemid=44

Mr Bean's sandwich (Present Simple and Continuous / Past Simple + Some / Any / A)

Teacher's note; this clip can be used to practise a variety of grammar and language points at an elementary level.  Part 5 can be used to practise the present simple or the past simple. 
The worksheet is based on the complete clip on the DVD. Part of the clip is shown on the YouTube clip below.

You are going to 

• watch a video clip of Mr Bean making a sandwich
• practise present continuous and present simple
• practise the use of some / any / a 
• practise has / hasn't got
• practise food countables and uncountables

Discuss

• Do you like sandwiches?
• What's your favourite sandwhich?
• What do you put in a sandwich ?
• Can you make a sandwich?
• Do you know Mr Bean?
• Can Mr Bean make a sandwich?
  

Part 1 - Look at the questions before you watch

1) Answer the questions
1) Is the man sitting on a bench?
2) Is he reading a newspaper?
3) What is he reading?



2) Who says? Put B for Mr Bean or M for Man

- Just popped out for lunch.

- Me too.

- Nothing like a quick sandwich.

- No, absolutely.

Now watch part 1 here

Answers in worksheet below

Part 2 - Look at the questions before you watch

3) Put a tick if Mr Bean takes these things from his pocket.

Bread		Credit card		Cheese		Pepper		Sugar
Knife		Lettuce		Fish		Handkerchief		Milk
Scissors		Tomatoes		Salt		Tea		Hot Water Bottle

4) Make true sentences with A, An, Some or Any.

1) He has got some bread 2) He hasn’t got a knife 3) He has got some scissors 4) 5) 6) 7) 8)

9) 10) 11) 12) 13) 14) 15)

 

 

 

 

 

 

5a True or false? (Present Simple)
1)  He cuts the loaf of bread with a knife
2)  He throws the crust on the ground
3) There are 2 slices of bread
4) He spreads the butter with the scissors
5) He washes the lettuce in the drinking fountain
6)  He dries the lettuce with his sock
7) There is one fish in the jar
8) He puts the tea bag in the hot water bottle
9) He coughs
10) The man gives him a sandwich.



5b True or false? (Past Simple)
1)  He cut the loaf of bread with a knife
2)  He threw the crust on the ground
3) There were 2 slices of bread
4) He spread the butter with the scissors
5) He washed the lettuce in the drinking fountain
6)  He dried the lettuce with his sock
7) There was one fish in the jar
8) He put the tea bag in the hot water bottle
9) He coughed
10) The man gave him a sandwich.       


Now watch the clip
 

Now do the interactive exercises











Correct the false sentences
eg He doesn’t cut the bread with a knife. He cuts it with some scissors (present).

 eg He didn’t cut the bread with a knife. He cut it with some scissors (past).




Speaking

7) Watch the presentation and answer the questions

Mr Bean's sandwich (present continuous)

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Worksheets - Answers

Mr Bean's Sandwich - EFL

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