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Lists of useful food and drink vocabulary
British and American food and drink vocabulary – top of this list
List of food vocabulary (kitchen equipment, ways of cooking, etc – in the answer key to this brainstorming worksheet)
Articles on teaching food and drink vocabulary
Photocopiable food and drink vocabulary classroom activities
Linking food and drink to other target language
Linking food and drink to grammar
Describing food with the passive voice
Food and drink comparatives discuss and agree
Explaining food vocabulary defining relative clauses practice (some specific to Japanese and other Asian food, but easily adaptable)
Deciding on a buffet lunch countable and uncountable nouns roleplay meeting
Food and drink Present Perfect saying yes bluffing games
Kitchen shopping countable and uncountable roleplay discussion
Countable and uncountable foods presentation and speaking
Food and drink mimes Present Continuous
Food vocabulary comparatives and superlatives
Linking food and drink to other language points
Food which is both countable and uncountable dice and coin games – NEW
British or American food and drink trivia quiz (British and American food vocabulary)
Requests and enquiries with have games (with clothes vocabulary, furniture vocabulary, classroom vocabulary, food vocabulary, animal vocabulary, sports vocabulary and toy vocabulary)
Food business ideas brainstorming meeting
Being positive and negative about food from other countries (likes and dislikes, describing food, and country and nationality words)
Colours, numbers and objects dice games (for word recognition, see page 6 for the food words)
Like and would like roleplay dialogue on food
Explaining Japanese things comparing and contrasting practice (mainly food and drink)
Meetings on the topic of food and drink and business entertaining
Food vocabulary word formation challenge game
Positive and negative words about food and dining
Making food IELTS process task practice
Other photocopiable food and drink classroom activities
Describing food sentence completion activities (in this e-book)
Explaining international foods activities (in this e-book)
Food and drink vocabulary for recommendations (in this e-book)
Useful language for describing food bluffing game (in this e-book)
Crazy food and drink pictionary
Fast food restaurants vocabulary roleplays (with food Janglish presentation)
Cooking and eating verbs mimes
Food vocabulary brainstorming game
Describing Xmas foods bluff game
Food and health discussion questions
Entertaining a foreign guest (including explaining Japanese food)
IELTS Speaking Part Two presentations on food
FCE Speaking Part Four on food
Explaining Japanese food and drink – good as preparation to entertain foreign guests
How do you spell foods (with lots of help and practice of the question)
Food and drink vocabulary flashcards
Circular foods picture flashcards
Food word recognition flashcards
Triangular foods picture flashcards
Square and rectangular foods flashcards
Food songs for EFL learners
Do you like broccoli ice cream? on Super Simple Songs (including flashcards of yucky food combinations)
Chocolate cake on LearnEnglishKids
C is for cookie (that’s good enough for me) from Sesame Street
Hot potato from The Wiggles (best ever actions for a food song!)
Mr Greedy’s Little Light Lunch
Are you hungry? on SuperSimpleSongs
Food vocabulary picture books/ stories
In approximate order of how much I’d recommend them for EFL classes
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle (link is to animated version on YouTube – many more good versions also available there)
A Beautiful Butterfly (kind of like a simplified version of The Very Hungry Caterpillar with colours vocab)
Ketchup on your Cornflakes by Nick Sharratt
Now I Eat My ABCs by Pam Abrahms
Yummy Yucky by Leslie Patricelli
Eating the Alphabet by Lois Ehlert
The hungry dragon story on Learn English Kids
How Are You Peeling? (Foods with moods)
Mr Greedy (link to YouTube video of the TV version)
Guri and Gura (link to Amazon page of the book)
Food vocabulary online games
Trolley Dash on LearnEnglishKids (mixed with some non-food vocab)
Related pages
Food and drink cultural training worksheets
Countable and uncountable page
Updated 21 October 2022
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