Restaurants

Make dining conversations practical with these lesson plans covering ordering, tipping customs, and etiquette. Topics explore restaurant scenarios across different cultures and dining traditions worldwide. Your students develop confidence eating out in English-speaking environments. Ideal for teaching useful, real-world vocabulary.

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Eating Out

Students practice restaurant vocabulary and taste adjectives in this A2 food lesson with dialogues, readings about global dishes, and speaking activities.

Grasshopper on minimalist plate for advanced English lesson about eating insects and food psychology

Should We Start Eating Insects?

Advanced ESL lesson exploring why insects disgust Western cultures. Includes BBC article, vocabulary, sustainability debates, and cultural food ethics.

Five ceramic coffee mugs with green glaze and foam on beige background for ESL lesson about coffee drinks and café vocabulary

How Coffee Got Its Names

Coffee lesson plan exploring how espresso drinks got their names. Video, vocabulary, café role plays for upper-intermediate ESL students.

Making a Complaint

Making a complaint ESL lesson plan that teaches polite yet assertive language through dialogues, listening activities, and real-world role-plays. A2 level.

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Table Manners

British etiquette expert shares five dining tips in this B2 lesson. Covers cutlery positions, selfless behavior, and culture shock at the table.

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The Rise of Pop-Up Restaurants

Help B2 students discuss pop-up restaurants, food trends, and dining culture. Includes video about chef stories and vocabulary for restaurant concepts.

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Street Food

Hot dogs, crepes, bubble tea, and more. This A2 street food lesson helps beginners learn food vocabulary and practice simple questions.

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At the Coffee Shop

Three real coffee shops, ten new words, and ordering practice. Perfect A2 lesson for students who love cafes and coffee culture.

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Should You Tip?

Learn about tipping culture worldwide in this B1 lesson plan with video, service vocabulary, and customer scenarios.

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The Art of Cocktails

Learn cocktail history in this B2 lesson covering the Whiskey Sour, Tom Collins, and Corpse Reviver with bartending vocabulary and creative activities.

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The Decline of QR-code Menus

Explore the decline of QR code menus with this C1 advanced lesson featuring authentic content, vocabulary building, and critical discussion tasks.

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The Michelin Guide

B2 Michelin Guide lesson exploring restaurant ratings, fine dining vocabulary & the surprising tire company origin story through video & discussion.