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Describing food

Pre-Intermediate
Warmer – Who knows more…?

Who knows more words related to food?

Name food, drinks, vegetables, fruit, etc. in turns. The
winner is who can tell more words.
Vocabulary – Describing food

In the boxes below you will find many adjectives you can use to describe
the different foods.

TOUCH SHAPE COLOUR TASTE

rotten, greasy, round, square, pink, red, orange, sweet, salty,
crunchy, crispy, straight, triangular, black, yellowish, bitter, flavoured,
mushy, ripe, sticky, oval, sleek, blobby, blue, dark, green, sour, spicy, juicy,
grubby, melted, flat, elliptical, purple, white, fresh, tasteless,
slimy, soft, hard, crooked, wavy grey, brown hot, mild
prickly
Vocabulary – Describing food

Can you also come up with suggestions of your own for describing the
many types of food?

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Vocabulary – Describing food

Can you also come up with suggestions of your own for describing the
many types of food?

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Vocabulary – Describing food

Can you also come up with suggestions of your own for describing the
many types of food?

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Vocabulary – Describing food

Can you also come up with suggestions of your own for describing the
many types of food?

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Guessing game

Choose a picture. Others

have to ask questions using
the words learnt previously
to find out the word.
Brainstorming – Countries & food

● Match countries with their typical food. List as many as you

can.
● Have you ever tasted them in their home country?
● Which one/ones would you like to try?
Discussion
1. In some cultures, things are eaten which other cultures think
are very strange. What do you think about the following as
food:
• dogs • brains
• cats • pigs' feet
• horses • milk
• pork (pigs) • cheese
• rats • blood
• snails • black sausage (made from blood)
• seafood in general (shrimps, oysters,• Haggis (sheep's stomach filled with
crabs etc.) various entrails.)
• different types of insects

2. What do you think is the most unusual thing that you

personally have ever eaten?
3. Do you consider yourself to be an "adventurous" eater?
Video – Bizarre European food
Watch the video and focus on reactions and adjectives they
use to describe food.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0t26w1zXiQ
Debate – Hungarian food

● What’s your opinion about Hungarian cuisine?

● What do you think foreigners think about Hungarian food in

general?

● What would you recommend foreigners?

● Agree on the 5 strangest types of Hungarian food.

● Why would foreigners find them disgusting or strange?

Video – Tasting Hungarian food

Watch the video and discuss the reactions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tEIWRnOcWw
Video – Food idioms

Watch the video. Which expression did you like most?

https://en.islcollective.com/video-lessons/food-idioms
Homework / Extra activity

https://www.eslgamesplus.com/food-classification-esl-
vocabulary-matching-game-on-mobile-ipad-html5-
android/