🍬 SUGAR: The Unknown Hide & Seek Game
A smart, conversation-driven lesson about hidden sugar, labels, and sweet idioms.
🎯 Goal of the lesson
Build speaking confidence and real-world awareness by exploring where sugar hides in everyday foods, how to read labels, and how to talk about sugar using natural English (including idioms).
⏰ Duration
30-60 min (flexible)
👥 Target group
Teens & adults at B1–B2 level; perfect for conversation classes, health/lifestyle topics, and vocabulary practice.
📦 What’s inside the lesson?
Warm-up discussion: How much sugar do we eat? Hidden sugar in everyday foods.
Includes useful vocab: types/forms (glucose, fructose, maltose, syrups, sweeteners).
Video task (TED-Ed): Sugar: Hiding in Plain Sight- prediction, focused listening, and comprehension questions.
Culture bite: Name the classic English desserts (Eton Mess, Apple Crumble, Banoffee Pie, etc.).
Idioms & expressions: to sugarcoat, (have) a sweet tooth, sugar rush, eye candy, not all sugar and spice (+ gap-fill practice).