Making a Pizza – A2 Level (Elementary) – PPT + PDF Lesson Pack (4:3 & 16:9)
Making a Pizza – A2 Level (Elementary)
A dynamic, step-by-step lesson using food, verbs, and weights to guide students through the pizza-making process. Rich in cooking vocabulary, functional grammar, and lively practice tasks.
This PowerPoint is a powerful supplement to your curriculum, designed to build speaking, listening, and clear pronunciation — whether you're teaching online or in class.
✅ Vocab: knead, chop, stir, ingredients, dough, yeast, oregano, mozzarella, etc.
✅ A2 grammar: imperatives, present continuous, quantities, sequencing instructions
✅ Skills: speaking, reading, listening, writing, pronunciation
✅ Includes: roleplays, ingredient matching, ordering recipe steps, pizza quiz
Includes: 4:3 + 16:9 PowerPoints, printable + digital PDFs
Intro price: £1.99 until June 15
Part of the fun, focused, unforgettable Lesson Flow series.
🎯 Cambridge Level
This lesson is aligned to A2 (Elementary) in the CEFR framework.
Students follow a real-world task — making a pizza — using practical cooking vocabulary, verbs, sequencing, and classroom-friendly food-based games and dialogues.
💡 Grammatical & Vocabulary Benefits
- Vocabulary:
- Ingredients: dough, flour, water, yeast, sauce, cheese, oregano, mozzarella, onion, tomato, pepper, mushroom, garlic, toppings
- Verbs: knead, stir, chop, mix, roll, bake, slice, spread, add
- Quantities: a pinch of, a spoon of, a cup of, a handful of
- Grammar:
- Imperatives: Chop the onions. Add the cheese.
- Sequencing phrases: First, then, after that, finally
- Present Continuous: She is slicing the mushrooms.
- Countable/uncountable food nouns
- Functions:
- Following a recipe or cooking instructions
- Giving and responding to food-related commands
- Describing actions and ingredients
🔁 Adaptable For
- A1 learners: Focus on the food words and clear action verbs. Use mime and visuals to support comprehension. Keep instructions simple.
- B1 learners: Expand with cultural recipes, oral presentations, or written pizza advertisements using persuasive language.
♻️ Flexible Across Levels
While each lesson is designed to hit clear A2 outcomes, the structure and visual scaffolding allow for easy adaptation down to A1 or up to B1. Teachers can adjust pace, task complexity, and target grammar based on learner needs — making each lesson focused but flexible.
🗣️ Skills Focus
- Speaking:
- Partner recipe-building
- Roleplay as a chef or customer
- Listening:
- Audio-based sequencing: What’s the first step?
- Match actions to ingredients
- Reading:
- Comprehension: short recipe stories
- Match ingredient words to pictures
- Writing:
- Fill-in-the-blank recipe card
- Create your own unique pizza steps
- Pronunciation:
- Focus on food-related sounds: /ch/ /sh/ /th/
- Tongue twister: Peter picked a perfect pizza topping
- Vocabulary Development:
- Matching tasks, pizza topping games, ingredient bingo
- Quiz-style challenges and guessing games
📚 Why It Works – The Lesson Flow Advantage
This lesson follows The Lesson Flow — a flexible, field-tested method that builds vocabulary and structure through rhythm, variety, and speaking confidence.
It’s built from 21 years of TEFL classroom experience.
📦 What You Get
- ✅ PowerPoint (4:3 – projector version)
- ✅ PowerPoint (16:9 – widescreen / online)
- ✅ PDF (4:3 – print version)
- ✅ PDF (16:9 – digital version)
🏆 Classroom-Ready and Student-Proof
- High engagement from food-related theme
- Strong visual support for vocabulary
- Built-in scaffolding for mixed-ability classes
🔥 Intro Price
Normally £2.99 – just £1.99 until June 15