ISSUE 024

Food Fraud ESL Lesson

Can you trust the food on your plate?

A ready-to-teach A1–A2 ESL lesson about food fraud, fake food, labels and trust, with simple reading, listening, vocabulary, discussion and speaking activities for beginner English learners.

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Collection 04 includes Issues 021–025.

Food Fraud ESL lesson showing a supermarket shelf hiding workers altering and relabeling food products
Food Fraud ESL worksheet preview for A1–A2 English learners

About This Food Fraud ESL Lesson

Food is not always what the label says. Honey can contain cheap sugar syrup, good olive oil can be mixed with cheaper oil, and some products can be sold under a false name.

This A1–A2 Food Fraud ESL lesson uses clear language to help beginner learners talk about food labels, fake products, prices and trust. Students consider who should stop food fraud and what should happen when companies lie about food.

The lesson combines a short original reading and audio with beginner vocabulary, true-or-false comprehension, discussion, a simple judgment activity, speaking practice and guided writing.

Food fraud comes in many forms. Some companies mix good olive oil with cheaper oil. Some sell fake wine, or give a fish a new name to sell it for more money. The food changes, but the idea is the same: someone makes money, and the shopper does not know.

What's Included in the Food Fraud Lesson?

  • Magazine-style A1–A2 ESL student worksheet
  • Short original food fraud reading with audio recording
  • Five beginner vocabulary items and true-or-false reading questions
  • Five supported discussion questions about food, labels, companies and shoppers
  • You Are the Judge critical-thinking activity: decide what should happen in five food-fraud cases
  • Language in Context vocabulary practice
  • Food-inspector speaking challenge: investigate suspicious “pure” olive oil and plan what to look at, test and ask
  • 60–100 word guided writing task: Who should stop food fraud?
  • Teacher guide and complete answer key
  • Ready-to-use classroom presentation

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