Is Food Addiction Real?

The main goals of this ESL lesson plan are to:

• – develop C2 level vocabulary,
• – enhance students’ speaking proficiency,
• – improve discussion skills.

This proficiency speaking lesson gets students talking about food addiction through debates, fact-checking activities, and real-world scenarios about whether junk food is actually addictive.

Warm-up:

The lesson starts with students discussing questions related to food addiction.

Video:

Students watch a video called “Why can’t we stop eating certain foods?” Afterward, they discuss the key ideas from the video using helpful phrases and expressions.

Speaking Activities:

Students rank a list of interventions for food addiction from most effective to least effective and justify their choices. They then talk about their approach to food addiction by choosing preferred options for combating this problem from a provided list. Next, learners match stakeholders to their likely position on food addiction, then discuss whether they agree. Students also place certain behaviors on an addiction spectrum. Finally, they label statements as myths of facts.

Discussion:

The lesson concludes with students debating the potential need to label certain foods as addictive.