How What You Eat Shapes How You Feel

In this Upper-Intermediate ESL lesson, students explore how our dietary choices affect our emotions, energy levels, and overall well-being through vocabulary exercises, grammar practice, and discussion activities.

Warm-Up:

Students will look at a graphic about emotional eating and answer questions.

Video:

Students will watch a short video titled “How the food you eat affects your brain.” After watching, students will answer questions to check for comprehension.

Exercises:

Students will engage in a series of language activities to reinforce their understanding of food vocabulary and concepts. They will start by completing sentences using provided words in a gap-filling exercise. Next, they’ll practice word replacement, substituting words in sentences using a given list of alternatives. The third activity involves matching words with their antonyms to expand vocabulary. Finally, students will identify and correct mistakes in sentences about food, honing their grammar and comprehension skills.

Reading:

Students will read a short text about how what we eat affects who we are and answer questions about the text.

Discussion:

By the end of the lesson, students will answer questions in order to spark a discussion.