High tea - conversation and activity for ESL, EFL, ELL adults and kids

This is a 3-hour cross-culture unit with 2 PowerPoint lessons in editable PPT format, worksheets, and a great activity to end the lesson. ESL, ELL, and ELD students who are learning about the British culture, would love this unit about the history and tradition of tea drinking in the UK.

The first lesson - gives a brief history of tea drinking culture in Britain, goes through the making of a “perfect” English cup of tea, and gives some “tea culture vocabulary”.

The second lesson - goes through the ins and outs of hosting an English tea party. We name all the accessories, the invitations, the right food to serve, and the dress attire. Most importantly, we discuss the guest, the host, and of course, the tea etiquette.

We end this cross-culture unit with a fun activity, in which the students read each other’s fortune in the tea leaves.

English tea provides endless topics of conversation. Knowing how to brew a ‘proper cuppa’ is an important skill that every foreign student, studying British culture, should acquire! …. Not really, there are as many ‘perfect cup of tea’ versions, as there are English people, but this is a wonderful way to get a glimpse into British culture.

This lesson is great for the beginning of a course, or for the end of one.

This lesson includes:

part one:

♚ Why do the English add milk to their tea?

♚ Who drank tea first, the English or the French?

♚ The history of ‘afternoon tea’.

♚ What the term high tea’ means, and why it’s used incorrectly by non-British people.

♚ Cream tea, Royale Tea, and Celebration Tea 

♚ What goes in first, the tea or the milk?

♚ How to make the perfect cup of tea

♚ Tea vocabulary

part two:

♚ How to find your way around an English tea setting.

♚ How to host the perfect afternoon tea

♚ The food

♚ The clothes

♚ The guest and host behavior etiquette

♚ Proper tea etiquette

♚ What to do if you’re invited to have tea at the royal palace?

♚ End of unit class activity - reading tea leaves.

When I give this lesson, I bring an ‘English tea service’ to class (instructions in the handout). Having tea together and following the traditional tea-drinking etiquette is a great way to break the ice with a new class, or to say goodbye for the summer. Students absolutely love this activity; you can use this with different age groups and various levels. It’s very adaptable.

I HOPE YOU AND YOUR STUDENTS ENJOY THIS LESSON.

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AUDIENCE This download is appropriate for high school students in Life skills classes, young students of ESL, and adult ESL cultural and conversational classes.

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