Free Outlook Common Core Lesson Plans: Unit 5 — Our Eating Habits
Free downloadable Common Core lesson plans for Outlook Unit 5 — Our Eating Habits. All 7 lessons: present continuous, quantifiers, articles, food vocabulary, reading, a poem, and a recipe writing task.
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August 15, 2026
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Unit 5 of Outlook covers Our Eating Habits — a topic every student can speak to from direct experience, paired with three grammar points: present continuous, quantifiers, and articles. Below are all 7 free, ready-to-teach lesson plans covering the full unit.
All seven are free to download, aligned with the Common Core Standards-Based Approach.
What’s Included
Lesson 1: Conversation — At the Restaurant (Agreeing & Ordering)
Practical restaurant dialogue: agreeing on a choice and ordering food politely.
Lesson 2: Grammar — Present Continuous & Quantifiers
Two structures introduced together, both genuinely useful for describing food and eating in the moment.
Lesson 3: Grammar Extension — Articles (a, an, the, some, zero)
A focused lesson on article use — a small but consistently tricky area for students at this level.
Lesson 4: Vocabulary — Food Collocations & Cooking Verbs
Vocabulary taught through natural word pairings and the verbs students need to describe cooking.
Lesson 5: Skills — Reading (“Food for Thought”) & Listening
A reading passage on food and eating, paired with listening practice.
Lesson 6: Skills — Speaking (Poem) & Writing (Recipe)
Students work with a poem before writing their own simple recipe — a genuinely practical writing format.
Lesson 7: Fun Page & Mini-Project — Food Chain & Food in Morocco
A closing lesson connecting the unit’s vocabulary to real Moroccan food culture.
Articles get their own dedicated lesson
Unlike many grammar points that get folded into a single lesson, articles are pulled out as their own extension here — a genuine acknowledgment of how often students get this small detail wrong.
How to Use These in Class
Use real Moroccan dishes as examples
Throughout this unit, swapping generic food examples for real, familiar Moroccan dishes (tagine, couscous, harira) makes the vocabulary and grammar land faster than abstract examples ever will.
Let the recipe writing task be genuinely personal
Encouraging students to write a recipe for a dish their own family actually makes turns Lesson 6’s writing task from a generic exercise into something they’re proud to share.
Articles need contrastive practice
When teaching Lesson 3, put “a,” “the,” and zero article side by side with the exact same noun in three different sentences — direct contrast makes the distinction click faster than isolated rules.
Download the Lesson Plans
All seven files are free to download individually.
⬇ Lesson 1: Conversation — At the Restaurant
⬇ Lesson 2: Grammar — Present Continuous & Quantifiers
⬇ Lesson 3: Grammar Extension — Articles
⬇ Lesson 4: Vocabulary — Food Collocations & Cooking Verbs
⬇ Lesson 5: Skills — Reading (“Food for Thought”) & Listening
Looking for lesson plans for the other 9 Outlook units? See the full Outlook Common Core index. Also teaching Middle School? The Focus 9th Grade Library covers Spotlight-level lesson plans too.
Yes — all seven lesson plans for Unit 5 are free to download individually.
Article use (a, an, the, some, or no article at all) is a small but genuinely persistent source of errors, so this unit gives it dedicated, focused practice rather than folding it into a broader grammar lesson.
Students write their own recipe, following a lesson that first explores a poem — connecting creative language to a practical writing format.
Yes — they follow the Outlook Unit 5 syllabus and the Moroccan Standards-Based Approach for Common Core.
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