Fabulous Food and Eating Listening, Speaking and Vocabulary Lessons
January 3rd, 2024
Below are a collection of food and eating related vocabulary, listening, speaking, brainstorming, and grammar activities designed to help students develop English language skills.
1 Restaurant complaints
What is going on in the pictures? What problems do the customers want to complain about?
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2 Shopping list for food role play (elementary)
This is a role play between 2 room mates talking about the food items they need for their house or apartment. It includes basic vocabulary for food, and also countable and uncountable nouns.
2 Taste and nutrition lesson
This is a lesson that explores the language of taste and nutrition with a variety of exercises including vocabulary and critical thinking exercises.
3 Celebrity chef interview
This is role play and listening/speaking exercise.
4 Bad restaurant role play
Bad restaurant is a listening speaking and role play exercise for talking about restaurant food and service.
5 Talking about food conversation
A listening/speaking and writing-a-conversation exercise for upper elementary students.
6 Introduction to ingredients
This is a fun way to start a class and introduce the vocabulary for ingredients to English language learners. Get students to watch the video or listen to the audio and write the vocabulary on the pictures on the PDF worksheet. Or you can just dictate the words randomly.
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7 Talking about food and eating vocabulary dictation
This is a similar format to the exercise above but it’s for talking about food and eating.
Talking about food (PDF- teacher)
Talking about food (PDF- student)
8 Restaurant dialogues speaking and listening worksheet (with audio answers)
This is an English language exercise to help students prepare to work in a restaurant or just learn about common restaurant exchanges so they are prepared to travel abroad or eat out with English language speakers. Students attempt to complete the dialogues. Then they can listen to the conversations and compare their answers.
Asking for information: restaurant dialogues (PDF)
(Youtube video of this exercise)
9 Elementary food conversation listening/speaking worksheet
Students can listen to the audio dialogue and complete the conversation. They can practice the conversation or create their own conversation.
Food conversation dialogue (PDF)
Elementary food conversation
10 Ordering in a restaurant listening activity and conversation worksheet (with audio answers)
This is a fun “Ordering in a Restaurant” gap fill speaking activity for an English language class. Students listening to audio and complete the conversation. Then the students can practice the conversation, perform role plays and/or write their own “Ordering in a Restaurant” dialogues.
Ordering in a restaurant dialogue (PDF)
11 Common expressions for talking about food (listening/speaking with answers and audio)
This is a vocabulary, listening and speaking activity for using common expressions to talk about food and eating. Students match the sentences the pictures and answer the questions. The listening activity could be done first or last. The students listen to the short conversational exchanges and match the letter of the item to the pictures.
Common expressions for talking about food (PDF)
12 Talking about food and eating vocabulary dictation 2
Another vocabulary and common expressions listening exercise.
Talking about food dictation 2 (PDF)
13 Listening and speaking skills worksheet: restaurant troubles (with audio and answers)
For this exercise students listen to the conversations and match the items (A-I) to the pictures. Then they listen to the short exchanges again and try to complete the speech bubbles. This kind of exercise encourages students to expand their vocabulary and improve their listening skills.
Restaurant troubles vocabulary and speaking exercise (PDF)
14 Types of food sorting
This is a sorting exercise for types of food.
