Desserts We Love

This is a conversational pre-intermediate ESL lesson about desserts. Students will explore pictures of famous desserts, practice using adjectives, and discuss their favorites. The lesson includes a short reading about four desserts—fortune cookies, tiramisu, mochi, and lemon tart—followed by comprehension tasks. Students will also work on pronunciation with tongue twisters and do an agree/disagree speaking activity. Optional homework invites them to create their own dessert recipe.

Lead-in, Adjectives

This conversational A2 ESL lesson begins with a lead-in where students discuss desserts through several fun questions. Next, they’ll look at 12 dessert pictures and try to name as many as they can. Then, they’ll check the correct answers and see how many they guessed right. Students will also share their preferences and practice using adjectives to describe the desserts by making their own sentences.

Reading, Comprehension

In the next part of the class, students will read about four famous desserts. They’ll take turns reading with classmates and answer questions after each section to check their understanding. The reading includes four short paragraphs about different desserts, with a variety of tasks after each one, such as comprehension questions, multiple-choice questions, and true/false exercises.

Agree or disagree, Discussion

Next, students will practice their conversational skills with an agree/disagree activity about desserts. They’ll also dive into a discussion about which desserts they would choose for different occasions, like a cozy movie night, a beach picnic, or a road trip.

Tongue twisters, Homework

In the final part of the class, students will practice pronunciation with three fun tongue twisters using words they learned in the lesson. They’ll first read them slowly, then try saying them faster three more times. There’s also optional homework called “Create your own desert ,” where students write a short dessert recipe and use adjectives from the lesson to practice further.