Food and Drink Activities

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