Taste...Tasting...Tasty

Teaching advanced groups is a bit more challenging, because they know a lot of English terms and you still need to come up with interesting discussion topics.
So the topic I was about to teach was TASTE and I consider it an interesting topic, especially because there are so many synonyms  and you can actually cover many points of interest.
So I found a series of nice quotes you can use as discussion starters - taste proverbs
Another icebreaker can be food associations , where you set their creativity free and you easily have them talk. You first pay attention to their likes and interests, then you offer them some food for thought...

The main corpus of the lesson can be imagined as a RESTAURANT-LIFE where you hand them a menu and you write there a few guide lines (menu entries) such as:

• Something to whet the appetite
• Those little mouth-watering moments
• Bearing ...fruit  

Thus you insert food idioms and your students recreate their life , they try to speak about some interesting events in their life in terms of food and meals, tastes of food, describing adjectives, comparisons. They should also select the name of their restaurant (keeping in mind that the name should also somehow summarize their life-story)
Of course you have previously taught them the original terms (appetizers,main course, dessert). Even more fun is to have them describe/invent a recipe for original meals: Chiken Miss Daisy, Jump-up Stuffed Cabbage, Make-me-crazy Grill,etc

Since you have already used the restaurant for tasting life you can continue the process by handing some types of restaurants and expect some style/atmosphere/company association and debates relating this to their own taste and life style.

Last,but not least, I like using role-plays so they need to impersonate some restaurant-goers who talk to their friend about some nice or exotic experiences:

 

Depending on the students and the type of course you are teaching, you can also create a Food Magazine in which you print their life stories. You might have headlines like Bloody pie in spicy sauce or Allspice powder on stuffed mushy chiken .
I hope these ideas will help and I am gladly waiting for your ideas on "How to teach...Tastes"...