Sweet History: The Journey of Chocolate

The main goals of this ESL lesson plan are to:

• – explore the cultural significance of chocolate through various language activities and sentence construction;
• – practice word completion puzzles and emotional expression exercises using chocolate-related vocabulary;
• – watch a video about the history of chocolate and develop reading comprehension skills.

This Intermediate ESL lesson plan explores the cultural significance of chocolate through various language activities including sentence construction, word completion puzzles, and emotional expression exercises.

Warm-up
The lesson starts with an exercise where students organize words to create sentences. 

Video
Students will watch a video named “The history of chocolate.” After viewing, they will fill gaps in sentences to check for comprehension.

Exercises
In this part of the lesson, students will complete words with the missing letters to create chocolate-related phrases. In the second exercise, they will pick out phrases that describe emotional reactions. Lastly, the students will categorize phrases by meaning.

Reading
Students will read a short text about chocolate, followed by a Q&A session.

Discussion
To wrap up, students will discuss a quote about chocolate.