Food and Drink Basic Vocabulary
Food and drink basic vocabulary is one of the most-needed lexical areas for survival English. Bread, butter, milk, cheese, water, juice, coffee, tea, chicken, fish, rice, pasta, vegetables, fruit, salad anchor the everyday range. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack organise the meals. Sweet, savoury, spicy, salty, sour, bitter describe the tastes. Together, the worksheet builds the foundational food lexis every A1–A2 learner needs to handle restaurants, shops, and conversations about meals.
This worksheet builds A1–A2 fluency with food-and-drink basic vocabulary in everyday contexts.
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What’s inside:
- Vocabulary box with 40+ food and drink items, organised by meal and food group
- Picture matching and labelling tasks for visual anchoring
- Gap-fill in meal-and-restaurant dialogues
- Personalised production: describe what you eat in a typical day
- Full Answer Key plus Teacher Notes with food-survey extension
Common challenges: Countable / uncountable splits are the central trap — bread, rice, pasta, cheese, milk, water, coffee are uncountable (no plural form unless you mean cups or pieces). False friends: Spanish sopa is soup not soap; Italian pepperoni are bell peppers in standard Italian but salami in American English. Some vs any governs the food question: Some bread? / Any milk?
For: Adult and teenage learners (14+) at CEFR A1 to A2, in beginner and pre-intermediate classes, 1:1 lessons, or self-study. Food vocabulary is heavily tested in Cambridge A2 Key (KET) Speaking and informal-writing tasks. Part of the Food & Cooking collection — the natural next step is Food Cooking Methods and Verbs, which extends the food-item vocabulary into cooking-action language.
