Download this free B2–C1 English worksheet PDF for adult learners and English teachers. This lesson is based on a recent Guardian essay about whether the traditional pattern of breakfast, lunch and dinner still fits modern life.
Students practise reading comprehension, useful vocabulary, phrase matching and speaking skills through a real-world topic about food culture, modern work, family life, flexible routines, health and social expectations. The worksheet is suitable for private English lessons, online classes, advanced conversation practice and homework before a discussion lesson.
The article explains that the three-meal pattern is often treated as natural, but may be connected more to industrial working life than to biology. Students read about how factory shifts, school timetables and office hours helped create a routine that eventually became seen as normal, responsible and healthy.
This worksheet encourages learners to discuss how modern life has changed eating habits. Students consider whether freelancers, shift workers, students and people living alone may need more flexible food routines, and whether nourishing, affordable and enjoyable food matters more than eating at fixed times.
The article also explores the social side of meals. Shared meals can create conversation and connection, but inherited food rules can also put pressure on families, especially women. Students discuss whether old expectations around meals should be loosened, and what a healthier modern food culture might look like.
The PDF includes a B2–C1 reading article, True / False questions, Phrase Match, Synonym Match, a task where students use new language, discussion questions and a full answer key. It helps learners discuss nutrition, social pressure, flexibility, work routines, shared meals, gender expectations and the balance between structure and spontaneity.
Level: B2–C1
Date: 16 June 2026
Focus: reading, vocabulary, food culture, health, modern life and speaking
This free worksheet includes:
- a B2–C1 reading text about eating three meals a day
- True / False comprehension questions
- Phrase Match practice with useful expressions
- Synonym Match vocabulary practice
- a sentence-writing task using new language
- discussion questions for Student A and Student B
- full answer key
The worksheet includes useful phrases such as ditch the idea, dates back to, fit around, took hold, keep up with, graze on, put pressure on, loosen our grip on, listen to and sit down to. It also practises vocabulary such as rigid, conventional, biological, careless, unhealthy, nourishing, affordable, enjoyable, flexible and spontaneity.
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