🍕 Do You Really Love Pizza? Stative Verbs

A2 Teens Lesson 05 builds on the stative-verbs warning introduced in Lesson 03 and turns it into a full lesson. The hook is a relatable question (‘Do you really love pizza?’) that invites students to pause and think about how they describe feelings, opinions, and senses. The grammar core is a four-family classification of stative verbs presented as a 2x2 grid: SENSES (see/hear/smell/taste/feel), FEELINGS & LIKES (love/like/hate/want/need/prefer), THOUGHTS & BELIEFS (know/believe/understand/remember/think/mean), and POSSESSION & BEING (have/own/belong/seem/be/cost) — each card colour-coded and including verb chips and a clear example. A side-by-side mistake/correct grid shows the three most common errors (‘I am loving’, ‘She is wanting’, ‘I am knowing’) with explanations of why each is wrong. Three tricky-verb boxes cover ‘have’, ‘think’, and ‘see’ — the verbs that change meaning depending on whether they’re used as states or actions, with paired examples (‘I have a bike’ vs ‘I am having lunch’). The reading is a magazine-style ‘Taste Test’ feature with three honest food-diary entries from Sofia (Brazil), Hiroshi (Japan), and Amira (Morocco), each demonstrating natural stative-verb use. Practice includes 8 multiple-choice questions with colour-coded hint tags (FEELING/SENSE/THOUGHT/POSSESSION/ACTION), a partner speaking task with model dialogue, a 70–100 word food-diary writing task with checklist, and an 8-question quiz with progress bar, instant feedback, and conic-gradient result circle.