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Why do we eat cake on our birthdays?

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Advanced lesson plan (B2 and above): Why do we eat cake on our birthdays? -  BUY ME A COFFEE if you like my FREE ESL content "Make a wish and blow out your candles", your friends and family tell you every year. But how did lighting a confectionery on fire on your birthday become the "normal" thing to do? And why - just why - would somebody pay $75 million dollars for a birthday cake?  In this B2+ worksheet, students will  Study a video about the origin of the birthday cake tradition Match cake-related pictures with phrasal verbs Create mixed conditionals  Learn six cake-related idioms See advanced adjectives used to advertise a cake Practise  adjective ordering using a news article about the world's most expensive cake   Educational materials shouldn't be paywalled. Show your support for my ESL content by  buying me a coffee! Click HERE  for the worksheet answers. Lesson objectives: 1) To match six phrasal verbs based on "CUT" to cake-relate...