Food Around the World | Countries, National Dishes & Speaking Activities

Take your students on a delicious trip around the world while getting them to read, speak, describe, guess and interact in English!

This ready-to-teach ESL lesson introduces students to countries, flags and traditional dishes from around the world, including fish and chips, tacos, paella, moussaka, halušky, feijoada, goulash, ramen, meat pie, falafel and many more.

Students don’t simply learn the names of the foods. They match countries with dishes, describe what foods are made of, read clues, guess countries and dishes, and use the topic to have real conversations in English. The lesson progresses through different activities, so students meet and reuse the same vocabulary several times in different contexts.

The package includes:

Country, flag and national dish vocabulary
Country + food matching activity
Roll-the-die speaking activity
Memory game
Food description puzzles
Domino game
“Where am I from?” guessing and speaking game
Conversation question cards
True or False worksheet
Teacher instructions and suggested lesson order

The speaking component goes beyond the target vocabulary, with questions about students’ favourite foods, national dishes, international food, cooking, healthy and unhealthy food, travel and eating habits.

A print-and-teach lesson with 53 pages of materials, ideal for turning a familiar food topic into a much richer cultural and communicative ESL lesson.

Great for upper primary, teenagers and adult ESL learners.