Learn about Food in English

VOCABULARY

ALL LEVELS
Flashcards

BEGINNER
Vegetable match
Fruit Vocabulary Video

INTERMEDIATE
Take turns describing the words and guessing which word your partner is referring to.

INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED
Verbs for cooking flashcards
Verbs for cooking drag and drop games
Verbs for cooking Past Simple ED exercise
More cooking verbs! drag and drop game

GRAMMAR

NEW BEGINNER
Present Simple form and usage
Add ‘is’ or ‘are’ to the sentences.
Asking and answering closed questions with ‘to be’ and normal verbs.
QUIZ – Contractions with ‘to be’ and normal verbs
Object Pronouns Food Quiz

BEGINNER
Count and non count nouns – Explanation
Is or Are with Food Adjectives – A practice quiz with to be with count and non-count nouns

BEGINNER – 2
Comparatives and Superlatives
Quantifiers
Like, want, and would like

HIGH BEGINNER+
Beer – then, than, that?
So or because? – Explanation and quiz
Beer – Phrasal verbs with get
Collective Nouns for Food

HIGH INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED
Causative Verbs
Fine Dining Connectors Quiz
Zucchini Bread Recipe – Connectors for addition
A Healthy Diet – Phrasal Verbs
Phrasal Verbs – a survival recipe

CONVERSATION AND ACTIVITIES

NEW BEGINNER
Beginner Dialogue – Use the prompts to create your own questions.
Battleship – Practice letters and food vocabulary with a strategy game.

ALL LEVELS
Play 20 Questions.
Conversation Questions
Food Spin the Wheel Conversation game
Race for the Burgers Board Game
What Can I Say? – Conversation game

HIGH INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED
1970’s versus Now
Protein and Price Graph

Eating in a restaurant – Role plays
1.) Watch the video about eating in a restaurant.
2.) Select a role play
a.) There’s a fly in my soup! – A customer finds a fly in the soup. The server thinks the customer put it there to avoid paying the bill.
b.) Stood up! – Your date doesn’t arrive. Talk with the server about it.
c.) A picky customer – The customer is very picky, and the server is getting annoyed.
d.) Bad service. – The server is cold and a little rude.
e.) A dine and dash? – After your meal, you discover that you don’t have enough money to pay the bill.

LISTENING

INTERMEDIATE
Food and Nutrition B1 listening Practice

HIGH INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED
Shrinkflation and Skimpflation – Listening, Reading, and Speaking Activities – B2-C2

Common Dining Etiquette Mistakes Explained – CNN

A Lesson in Chocolate

The History of Chocolate – High Intermediate/Advanced listening practice

Comprehension Questions:
1.) Which part of the world was especially slow to catch on to how delicious chocolate is?
2.) What is the earliest time that we know of that humans have been collecting and consuming chocolate?
3.) What ailment did the Spanish use chocolate to treat?
4.) What year was milk chocolate invented?
5.) What is the annual market value of chocolate world wide?
(Check your answers at the bottom of the page.)

READING AND WRITING

INTERMEDIATE
Classic Canadian Recipes – B1+

Protein and Food Prices – Practice reading charts and graphs

HIGH INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED
Dinner Parties – Bon appétit – B2-C2
Comprehension Questions
1.) In what ways can dinner parties promote mental health, according to the author?
2.) How have dinner parties changed over the years?
3.) Does the author advise hosts set an intention for their parties?

Learn About Maple Syrup
Why is Canada famous for its maple syrup?
Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist
Native Spirit – The Rich Tradition of Maple Syrup – Video (Start at 20 seconds.)

Chocolate and Cheese Aren’t So Different!