Practise talking about food and drink with our free online ESL activities and exercises. Learn everyday food vocabulary and useful adjectives for describing how food tastes.
Available Activities
- Food Adjectives – Categorise activity: sort adjectives like delicious, bland and revolting into tastes good, tastes bad and not much taste. Great as a lead-in to talking about favourite dishes and restaurants.
- Fruit and Vegetables – Hangman game with common fruit and vegetable words. A quick warm-up or vocabulary review.
- Food Conversation Questions – Card set of discussion questions about food, cooking and national dishes.
- Eating Out Conversation Questions – Card set of discussion questions about restaurants, cafés and eating out.
- Fruit and Vegetables – Scatter sheet for vocabulary review and speaking practice.
- Drinks – Scatter sheet with everyday drinks vocabulary.
- Snacks – Scatter sheet with common snack vocabulary.
- At the Restaurant – Scatter sheet with restaurant vocabulary. Useful before a role play.
- In the Kitchen – Scatter sheet with kitchen and cooking vocabulary.
- In the Supermarket – Scatter sheet with supermarket and shopping vocabulary.
- Countable or Uncountable? Food Nouns – Categorise activity: sort food words like apple, rice and bread into countable and uncountable nouns
- The Best Cuisines in the World – Ranking activity: put 10 world cuisines (Italian, Japanese, Mexican, Turkish) in order from favourite to least favourite, then compare with a partner.
- The Best Pizza Toppings – Ranking activity: put 10 pizza toppings (pepperoni, mushrooms, pineapple, anchovies) in order from favourite to least favourite, then compare with a partner.
- Full English Breakfast: Yes or No? – Categorise activity: decide which foods, like bacon, baked beans, croissants and porridge, are part of a traditional full English breakfast. A good lead-in to talking about breakfast in different countries.
- Food Containers: A Bottle of, A Jar of… – Categorise activity: match foods and drinks like milk, crisps, tuna and jam to the right container (bottle, carton, packet, tin or jar)