Fruits and Vegetables Vocabulary
Fruits and vegetables vocabulary is the A1 lexical foundation that anchors every other food worksheet. Apple, banana, orange, strawberry, grape, peach, pear, lemon, lime, mango, pineapple for fruits; potato, carrot, onion, tomato, cucumber, lettuce, broccoli, mushroom, pepper, garlic for vegetables. Beyond the items themselves, the worksheet covers high-frequency collocations (fresh fruit, frozen vegetables, ripe banana, green pepper, red pepper) and the countable / uncountable split that distinguishes most fruits and vegetables (countable) from quantities (a bunch of grapes, a head of lettuce, a clove of garlic).
This worksheet builds A1 confidence with the fruits-and-vegetables core lexis and food-shopping vocabulary.
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What’s inside:
- Vocabulary box with 30+ items organised by category (fruits, vegetables, herbs)
- Picture matching and labelling tasks for visual anchoring
- Gap-fill in shopping-and-recipe contexts
- Sorting task: classify as fruit / vegetable / herb
- Personalised production: write a shopping list for a simple meal plus full Answer Key and Teacher Notes
Common challenges: False friends are common — German Pfirsich is peach, not peach-and-something-else; Italian pomodoro is tomato, predictably; but Italian peperoni are bell peppers, not pepperoni sausage. Tomato classification is the recurring trick question: botanically a fruit, culinarily a vegetable — English uses the culinary classification. Vegetable vs vegetarian: easy to confuse for A1 learners.
For: Adult and teenage learners (14+) at CEFR A1, in beginner classes, 1:1 lessons, or self-study. The foundational food lexis is core to Cambridge A2 Key (KET) Speaking Part 1 and everyday-survival English. Part of the Food & Cooking collection — the natural next step is Food and Drink Basic Vocabulary, which extends the food-item vocabulary into the broader meal-and-drink range.
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