Did Coca-Cola really use to contain cocaine?

Advanced lesson plan (B2 and above): Did Coca-Cola really use to contain cocaine? -  BUY ME A COFFEE if you like my FREE ESL content

Coca-Cola is available in every country of the world, excluding Cuba and North Korea. Most people have sipped the saccharine, bubbly content from its iconic scarlet can, but few realise Coca-Cola contains coca leaf extract - the very same leaf from which cocaine is derived. 

In this B2+ worksheet, students will 

• Study a video about Coca-Cola's links with cocaine
• Match Coke-related pictures to four phrasal verbs (THROW away, THROW on, THROW at, THROW up)
• Practise inversions with negative adverbials, using Coke-related sample sentences
• Learn six can-related idioms
• See advanced adjectives used in the marketing of Coca-Cola
• Read an article about Coca-Cola's 1985 public relations meltdown

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Lesson objectives:

1) To match four phrasal verbs based on "THROW" to coke-related pictures (to throw away, to throw out, to throw at, to throw on).

2) To see examples of negative adverbials with inversion, using Coke-related sample sentences and fill-in-the-adverbial challenges.

3) To select advanced adjectives from a vocabulary list that could be used to market a can of Coke.

4) To practise listening comprehension by studying a video about Coca-Cola's historic and present connections with cocaine.

5) To expand the students' repertoire of idioms, matching six can-related idioms/phrasal verbs with their definitions (to kick the can down the road, to open a can of worms, to can someone, etc.) 

6) To improve reading comprehension by studying a short article about Coca-Cola's "New Coke" incident, in which they briefly changed the recipe in 1985, only to face a massive backlash.