FOOD & COOKING VOCABULARY 1 (ESL)

level: Beginner/Intermediate (A2/B1)

Food and cooking vocabulary is essential for everyday life — whether you're shopping, cooking, or eating out. This first exercise covers the most common words for food, ingredients, and cooking methods. This is exercise 1 of 3.

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Choose the best response to complete each of the following sentences.

1. The front-left (burner/fire) doesn't work on that stove.✓

2. I know a fantastic (recipe/receipt) for mushroom soup.✓

3. Pass me the hot sauce. This meal is too (spicy/bland).✓

4. What are we going to have for (dessert/desert)?✓

5. I can't eat that much. Whenever I eat a (heavy/light) meal, I get sleepy.✓

6. Don't eat that apple. It's (rotten/rot).✓

7. Meat that doesn't have a lot of fat is called (unfat/lean) meat.✓

8. Fresh squeezed juice is very (nutritious/nutritional).✓

9. In a restaurant, you can order your steak "rare", "medium", or "well " (cooked/done).✓

10. I once got food (poison/poisoning) from eating raw fish.✓

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Food & Cooking Conversation Questions 1. What is your favorite food? Can you describe how it is made?
2. Do you enjoy cooking? What do you like to cook most?
3. How has the food culture in your country changed in recent years?
4. What is the most unusual food you have ever tried? Did you like it?
5. Do you think it is important to know how to cook? Why or why not?
6. What is a traditional dish from your country that you would recommend to visitors?

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