TEACHER’S NOTES

ESL / EFL RESOURCES Food and Drink Collocation Dominoes

Activity Type Introduction

Reading and matching In this engaging food and drink collocations activity, students
activity, group work play a game of dominoes where they match adjectives and nouns
together to make food and drink collocations.

Language Focus Procedure

Food and drink
Divide the students into groups of three.
collocations
Give each group a set of dominoes.
Aim
Ask the students to shuffle the dominoes and deal out six each,
To match adjectives leaving the rest in a pile face down on the table.
and nouns together to
make food and drink Groups of four are also possible with each student having four
collocations. dominoes.

Tell the students to turn over the top card from the pile and place
Preparation it face up on the table.
Make one copy of the
The first player puts a domino down either before or after the
dominoes for each group
domino on the table, making sure the two dominoes form a food
of three and cut as
or drink collocation, e.g. stir-fried noodles.
indicated.
The next player then tries to put down one of their dominoes at
Level either end of the domino chain and so on.

Pre-intermediate (A2) If a player cannot put down one of their dominoes, they take a
domino from the top of the pile and put it down if they can.

Time If there are no dominoes left in the pile, play passes to the next
20 minutes student.

The first player to get rid of all their dominoes wins the game.

The other players should continue to put down their dominoes,

as when all the dominoes have been matched they form a loop.
If a loop is not formed, then the students haven't matched the
dominoes correctly and they should look for the mistake.

The correct answers can be seen on the uncut worksheet.

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 FOOD AND DRINK

ESL / EFL RESOURCES Food and Drink Collocation Dominoes

fish stir-fried noodles whole-wheat

bread Cheddar cheese mineral

water mashed potato junk

food fruit salad fried

rice scrambled eggs roast

chicken instant coffee Caesar

salad steamed fish white

wine whole milk dinner

plate spicy noodles fresh

fruit iced tea roast

potato fried eggs black

coffee baked beans raw

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