B1 Vocabulary

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5B Quite a mouthful!
Aim B1
PRELIMINARY Vocabulary
to review food and eating out vocabulary

5B Quite a mouthful!
Activity type
describing food vocabulary
BITTER DELICIOUS HEALTHY DIET
Classroom dynamics Don’t use:
• sweet
Don’t use:
• taste
Don’t use:
• fruit
groups of three or four • mouth
• taste
• good
• like
• vegetables
• body

Time taken
15 minutes DISGUSTING INGREDIENT BE ON A DIET
Don’t use: Don’t use: Don’t use:

Preparation • taste
• horrible
• recipe
• cooking
• weight
• health
• bad • meal • special
You will need one copy of the activity sheet per group, cut
up into cards.

PEPPER RECIPE SMELL

Procedure
Don’t use: Don’t use: Don’t use:
1 Divide the class into groups of three or four. Hand out a • spicy
• black
• instructions
• book
• nose
• sense
set of cards to each group, and ask them to place them in • salt • guide • taste

a pile face down on the desk.

2 Tell students they are going to describe some food and
eating out vocabulary items for others in the group to SPICY TONGUE VEGETARIAN
guess. One student in the group starts by picking up a Don’t use: Don’t use: Don’t use:
• hot • mouth • meat
card. They must describe the word in capitals without • painful • flavour • diet
mentioning any of the prohibited words below (or any • chilli • taste • vegetables

words derived from them). They could talk about their

own preferences for this thing or use shared experience PHOTOCOPIABLE © Pearson Education Limited 2020 22
to help their partner. They could also use examples of
the word or phrase. For example: This is something we
put on our food. If you smell it then it makes you sneeze!
(pepper). They could use phrases such as What I’m trying
to say is … or In other words … to help them describe the
vocabulary items.
3 When a student in the group guesses the word or phrase
correctly, they win a point. The student describing
the word or phrase also wins a point. If the student
describing the card uses one of the words in bullet points
on the card, they lose a point. If no one guesses the word
or phrase after a minute, no points are awarded and the
card should be put at the bottom of the pile.
4 Students take turns describing cards until the 15 minutes
are up, or all the cards have been used. At the end of the
activity, the student with the most points wins.

Adaptation and extension

As a follow-up, students could read out the cards again, but
this time saying only the prohibited words. The rest of the
group then has to remember the original term. Points could
be awarded for this, or it could serve as a class plenary.

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