Foods I Loved as a Kid vs. Foods I Love Now

Conversation - B2-C1 | Advance Level

Nov. 25 Tue , 08:00 USA

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Description

In this class you will:

Learn about how tastes and food preferences change over time.

Learn vocabulary related to food, tastes, childhood vs now, change.

Watch the video and discuss your own food memories: what you loved as a kid, and what you love now.

Compare and contrast foods from your childhood and foods you enjoy now.

Practice simple sentences: “When I was a child I used to…”, “Now I like…”

You will:

Understand that preferences can change.

Use simple English to describe past habits and current preferences.

Share your food-story and listen to others’.

Build confidence speaking in past and present tense about real life.

Session Activities

1. What was your favourite food when you were a child?

2. What food did you dislike as a child but now maybe like or love?

3. Do you still eat that favourite childhood food now? Why or why not?

4. Has your taste changed? Are you more adventurous now?

5. Do you remember the first time you tried a “new” food? What happened?

1. What food(s) from your childhood still make you happy?

2. What food(s) did you dislike when you were small but now enjoy? Why do you think that changed?

3. What foods do you like now that you didn’t try as a child?

4. Do you think children’s foods are different from adult foods? How?

5. How does your culture or country influence what foods you like now?

6. Have you ever tried to re-try a food you hated as a child? What was the result?

7. What ingredients or tastes (sweet, salty, sour, spicy) have you become more comfortable with as you grew up?

8. If you were giving advice to a kid about food, what would you say to help them like more foods?

9. After watching the video, what new idea about your food preferences did you learn and why does it matter to you?

Favourite

The food you like the most

Dislike

To not like something

Enjoy

To like something and feel happy with it

Taste

How a food feels in your mouth (sweet, salty etc.)

Childhood

The time when you were a child

Preference

What you like more than other things

Try out

To test or taste something new

Change

To become different or make something different

Ingredient

What a food is made of

Develop

To grow or become better over time