How did they make cheese in medieval times?

Advanced lesson plan (B2 and above): How did they make cheese in medieval times? - BUY ME A COFFEE if you like my FREE ESL content

Humans have been making cheese for 10,000 years, for as long as we've been shepherding ruminants. We've experimented a lot over the millenia, giving rise to tens of variants: brie, camembert, cheddar, cottage, feta, gorgonzola, grana, gruyère, roquefort, wensleydale - the list goes on. 

In this B2+ worksheet, students will 

• Study a video about how to make medieval cheese
• Learn six cheese-related idioms
• Match cheese-related pictures with phrasal verbs 
• See advanced adjectives to market cheese
• Read and answer questions about England's famous Cheese Roll event
• Learn the difference between stative and dynamic forms of verbs

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Lesson objectives:

To match six phrasal verbs based on "BE" to cheese-related pictures (to be down, to be into something, to be against something, to be off, to be onto something, to be out of something)

2) To choose between dynamic and stative forms of verbs to complete cheese-related sentences

3) To select appropriate adjectives from a list to advertise cheese (e.g. stinky, pungent, rubbery)

4) To practise listening comprehension by studying a video about how to make medieval cheese

5) To expand the students' repertoire of idioms, matching six cheese-related idioms/phrases with their definitions (say cheese! To cheese someone off, to have more holes than swiss cheese, to be like chalk and cheese, big cheese, cheesy)

6) To improve reading comprehension by studying a short article about England's most bizarre daredevil event, the May Bank Holiday Cheese Roll on Cooper’s Hill in Gloucestershire