Unit: Chefs Without Borders  Date:  

 
Lesson: ​6 
Objectives:  
Students will be able to… 
● Identify and use vocabulary related to food  
● Identify and use vocabulary related to cooking verbs 
● Identify and use vocabulary related to cooking appliances or utensils 
● Use specific vocabulary in controlled dialogues 
 

It is important to note that this session is designed to be implemented with the methodology of corners. Given 
this, the students are going to be divided into groups (better to have the same groups of telecollaboration) 
and are going to rotate among the 4 corners in the classroom. Also, this lesson may require a large room. 
 
Activity, (Corner 1): Let’s play!  Objectives Met: 
This  corner  will be focused on traditional “board games” such as  ● Identify and use vocabulary 
related to food  
domino and memory games.  ● Identify and use vocabulary 
● Domino:  this  is  a  popular  game  to  learn  vocabulary  in  a  related to cooking 
appliances or utensils 
foreign  language,  consisting  in  pairing  an  image  with  its 
corresponding  word.  In  this  case,  the  domino  is  focused  on   
learning  vocabulary  about  ​food​.  The  flash-cards  must  be 
chained, and the player that uses all his/her cards wins.  
● Memory  game:  the  students  will  have  a  set  of  cards 
faced-down  and  they  will  have  to pair each object, in this case, 
focused  on  ​kitchen  utensils  or  appliances​,  with  the 
corresponding  word.  In  this  game  an  additional  rule  must  be 
applied  and  is  that  of saying the word of the object the student 
has  picked  while  showing  it  to  the others. If this is omitted, the 
play  does  not  count, that is why the rest of the players must be 
paying attention. 

 
Materials Needed:  
Domino 
Memory game 
Activity (Corner 2): Imagine that…  Objectives Met: 
● Role-play:  role-plays  are  perfect  opportunities  to  practice  ● Use specific vocabulary in 
specific  vocabulary  or  sentences  but  giving  students  controlled dialogues 
● Identify and use vocabulary 
free-range  to  explore  the  language  at  the  same  timers.  This  related to food  
corner  will  be  somehow  drama-based,  and students will have  ● Identify and use vocabulary 
related to cooking verbs 
 different  cards  presenting  different  situations  that  they  will  ● Identify and use vocabulary 
have  to  represent  in  pairs.  This  situation  cards  will  be  related to cooking appliances 
or utensils 
accompanied  of  some  talking-prompts  specific  to  each 
 
situation  in  order  to  help  students  in  case  they  need  it.  The 
other  students  will  be  the  audience  and  will  have  to  guess 
which  situation  they  are  representing.  After  that,  they  swap 
roles.  Also,  the students will have different utensils, costumes 
and  other  attrezzo  to  accompany  the  dialogues.  The 
situations  include  being  in  a  restaurant  and  asking  for  your 
food,  starring  a  cooking  TV  show,  showing  a  recipe  to  a 
foreign  friend  of  yours,  being  at  the supermarket and having 
to buy supplies, going shopping for kitchen appliances… 

 
 
Materials Needed: 
Cards with the explanation of the communicative situation 
Cards with talking prompts adapted to the situation 
 
Activity, (Corner 3): What are you doing?  Objective Met: 
● Mimic  game  ​(Cooking  verbs)​:  this  is  another  drama-based  ● Identify and use vocabulary 
related to cooking verbs 
game  in  which students are divided into two different groups. 
Then,  by  turns,  the  round  starts. For example, in group A, one   
member of the group is going to be in front of the others. First, 
he  or  she  will  take  a  card  in  which  there  is  a  drawing 
representing  an  action,  in  this  case  focusing  on  ​cooking 
verbs​,  and  this  student  must  mime  it.  Secondly,  his  or  her 
team  will  have  different  papers  with  all  the  actions  or  verbs 
written  in  English,  and  they  will  have  to  guess  which  verb  is 
the  one their peer is representing. The team must agree on the 
word  (verb)  and  say  it  out  loud.  Then,  it  is  the turn of team B. 
When doing the game next times, they can swap roles. 

 
Materials Needed: 
Flash-cards with cooking verbs 
 
Activity, (Corner 4): Down to practice  Objective Met: 
● Identify and use vocabulary 
In  this  corner,  students  will  have  a  wide  variety  of  worksheets  and 
related to food  
vocabulary  practice  to  choose  from.  The  worksheets  have  different  ● Identify and use vocabulary 
types  of  exercises  and  will  cover  all  the  vocabulary of the unit (food,  related to cooking verbs 
● Identify and use vocabulary 
cooking  verbs,  kitchen  appliances,  etc).  Students  can  do  as  much  related to cooking appliances 
worksheets  as  they  want,  considering  that  once  they  pick  one,  they  or utensils 
cannot  grab  another  one  unless  they  have  finished  that  one.  Lastly,   
students  can  do  these  worksheets  individually  or  in  pairs  (not  in 
groups),  always  specifying  the  authors  of  the  work  done.  5  minutes 
before  the corner is finished, students must check their answers with 
the answer key, which will be kept by the teacher. 
 
Materials Needed: 
Different and diverse worksheets to practice vocabulary 
 
 
All materials retrieved from:  
ISLCollective. (n.d.). 44 FREE ESL cooking Reading worksheets. Retrieved November 30, from 
https://en.islcollective.com/resources/search_result?Tags=cooking&Skill=Reading&type=Printable
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