Food Vocabulary Charts and Worksheets (Free PDF)

As part of my ongoing series of free printable resources, I’m excited to introduce a brand-new set of food and drinks vocabulary charts and worksheets created especially for young English learners. This mini-project includes two illustrated vocabulary charts — one general food chart and a second chart dedicated to desserts — plus printable activities designed to help children learn and remember everyday food words.

Verb “to be” Reading Comprehension and Exercises

Hey there, fellow English teachers! I have a new reading comprehension project to share with you. It is centered around the verb "to be" and designed to engage students while reinforcing essential grammar concepts. The verb "to be" is a cornerstone of language learning, and I've found that dedicating some quality time to this little powerhouse can work wonders for my students' understanding of grammar.

Food and Drinks Vocabulary Posters

There will be a lot of holidays and celebrations till the end of the year. And the best attribute of any holiday is, of course, tasty food. Besides major holidays such as Thanksgiving Day and Christmas, there are also a few celebrations dedicated to food according to my classroom calendar. These are National Sandwich Day on November 3, National Cake Day on November 26, National Cookie Day on December 4, and National Cupcake Day on December 15. We usually talk a lot about food with my students these days and I display my printable food and drinks vocabulary posters on the classroom walls.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Activities

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle is one of the children's books that I frequently use for my English classes with kids who learn English as a foreign language. The book is short and simple enough to read with elementary school students. Educators and parents read the story of the very hungry caterpillar with preschoolers and even toddlers in English speaking countries. However, since I teach English to children who are just starting to learn English, I mostly use the book for my classes with 1st graders. And I have designed some printable activities, worksheets, flashcards, and a poster to get the maximum out of the book as an EFL teacher. So I'd like to share some of the visually enhanced activities I use along with "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" book to teach English to children.

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar activities kit includes 14 printable worksheets with small cut-out cards for the tasks, 28 colorful flashcards and a poster.

Reading Comprehension Worksheets: Food and Cooking

Food and cooking are popular topics for English classes at school. That’s why I keep on designing printables dedicated to these topics to make my classes more fun and engaging for my students in elementary and middle school. If you follow my blog, you might know that I have created a large printable kit that includes worksheets, flashcards and games dedicated to food. I have recently decided to add some reading comprehension passages and related worksheets to my collection of ESL/EFL resources designed to help children learn and expand the food and cooking vocabulary.

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The set includes 3 reading comprehension passages with worksheets as well as a collection of more than 100 printable flashcards dedicated to food, cutlery and tableware

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The food and cooking reading comprehension set includes three passages and related worksheets that offer activities that ask students to answer questions, match words and pictures, fill in tables and crosswords etc. The passages tell about cooking, making cakes and the story about a lion who loved eating fruits and vegetables rather than smaller animals.

The reading comprehension passage telling about cooking food.

Printable Food & Drinks Flashcards. Part 4.

Here are 10 more printable flashcards belonging to my food and drinks kit. If you follow my blog closely, you might know that the kit includes 63 printable flashcards (including a few British variations) as well as four types of worksheets and two games designed to help students learn the English food and drinks vocabulary.

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The kit includes flashcards, 4 types of worksheets, dominoes and bingo game

Printable Food & Drinks Flashcards. Part 3.

This is another bunch of my printable flashcards that I would like to share with English teachers to help them introduce the food and drinks vocabulary to students, and make their lessons more fun and appealing to kids thanks to high quality teaching materials. This post offers 10 flashcards that belong to my food and drinks kit. The kit includes 63 printable flashcards (including a few British variations for some words) along with worksheets and games.

Buy the whole food & drinks kit in printer-friendly PDF format
The kit includes flashcards, 4 types of worksheets, dominoes and bingo game

Today’s food and drinks flashcards help introduce the following vocabulary: hamburger, honey, hot dog, ice cream, jam, juice, lobster, meat, mushroom, mustard. So here they are:

Printable Food & Drinks Flashcards. Part 2.

Here are another 10 printable flashcards that I use to introduce the food & drinks vocabulary to my students. I often use them along with worksheets and games belonging to my food & drinks kit. I hope my fellow educators will love these colorful flashcards and use them for their English classes too.

Buy the whole food & drinks kit in printer-friendly PDF format
The kit includes flashcards, 4 types of worksheets, dominoes and bingo game

Food & Drinks Worksheets: Word to Picture Matching

With this blog post I’m starting a series of publications featuring my collection of printable ESL worksheets, flashcards and games designed to introduce and consolidate the food & drinks vocabulary.

Buy the whole food & drinks kit in printer-friendly PDF format
The kit includes flashcards, 4 types of worksheets, dominoes and bingo game

The food and drinks topic is among the key subjects in my English syllabus. Knowing names of food and drinks is a must for every English learner. As a rule, one learns English to be able to communicate with people and travel all over the world with as little language barrier as possible. Food is the essential one have to take care of whenever one goes. Trying local foods is one of the most pleasant moments of any trip. And we often welcome foreign guests with food and drinks, so we have to be able to offer them a treat in the language they understand, and English proves to be the language understood by more than 1.5 billion people. Therefore if one knows some English food & drinks vocabulary, chances are he or she will enjoy partaking of a meal in a good company of friendly foreigners. Sharing food together is a good way to make new friends and business partners.

I’ll be publishing some of my printable food and drinks worksheets, games and flashcards in the upcoming posts. The entire collection constitutes the food & drinks kit that includes 14 picture-to-word matching worksheets (4 for British English vocabulary), 13 word-to-picture matching worksheets (4 for British English vocabulary), 7 word search puzzles (1 for British English vocabulary), 8 crossword puzzles (1 for British English vocabulary), 15 bingo cards, 64 domino cards (with some British English variations), 63 flashcards (with some British English variations).

The food and drinks vocabulary covered in my printable kit

Two Aliens. Song for Children about Cute Aliens

This song about two cute aliens is my husband's contribution to my English teaching activity. My husband works for a web design company as a translator while I teach English to children. He often gets inspired with the success of our Youtube channel where we post my ESL songs for which my husband often creates animation videos. He also get inspired by our four years old son who is constantly surrounded with kids' stuff and tries to learn English through songs, cartoons and children's books. So the atmosphere of the early childhood education in our house seems to be contagious because my husband has made a decision not only to help me create videos for my songs but also write his own songs for kids. And he wrote lyrics for a few new songs I am going to show in this blog. I think these songs are really good.

His first song is called "Two Aliens". This song is about two cute little aliens who visit children on the Earth to play with them and eat some yummies. When he showed this song to me I understood that it could be a really powerful teaching material for teachers working with elementary school kids and older children because the song story is really cute and funny. All teachers know that fun is always great for any kind of lessons with kids and especially for teaching languages. Fun helps create excitement and human brain remembers moments of excitement more effectively than colorless and boring situations. Memorizing things while playing fun games and singing fun songs during lessons is much easier especially for little ones. My husband had created drawings of two cute alien characters and used them to make this little cartoon for even more fun during my English lessons.

Watch the Aliens Song video on Youtube

This is yet another song created by our whole family (the others being the Fruits and Berries song, the Forest Animals song and the Dinosaur song): my husband contributed his lyrics, illustrations and animation; I composed the music and recorded my singing, and you can hear our four years old son as the cute alien's voice in the video above.

Yummy ABC Song (+Flashcards)

This funny ABC song helps your children detect individual letter sounds that form words. The ability to correspond letters to the sounds they produce is the most important part in learning to read. The song also introduces names of fruit and sweets and gives you a wonderful opportunity to enrich children’s vocabulary.

In addition you can download our free yummy ABC flashcards to make your teaching more interesting and productive.

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These are the lyrics of the song:

Yummy, yummy, yummy, yummy ABC
Yummy, yummy, yummy, yummy ABC
Learn your letters and sing along with me.
Yummy, yummy, yummy, yummy ABC

A is for /a/, /a/, /a/ apple.
B is for /b/, /b/, /b/ banana.
C is for /k/, /k/, /k/ candy.
D is for /d/, /d/, /d/ date.

E is for /e/, /e/, /e/ egg.
F is for /f/, /f/, /f/ fig.
G is for /g/, /g/, /g/ grapes.
H is for /h/, /h/, /h/ honey.

I is for /i/, /i/, /i/ Indian corn.
J is for /j/, /j/, /j/ jam.
K is for /k/, /k/, /k/ kiwi.
L is for /l/, /l/, /l/ lemon.

M is for /m/, /m/, /m/ muffin.
N is for /n/, /n/, /n/ nut.
O is for /o/, /o/, /o/ orange.
P is for /p/, /p/, /p/ pear.

Q is for /kw/, / kw /, / kw / quince.
R is for /r/, /r/, /r/ raisins.
S is for /s/, /s/, /s/ strawberry.
T is for /t/, /t/, /t/ tart.


U is for /u/, /u/, /u/ ugli fruit.
V is for /v/, /v/, /v/ vanilla.
W is for /w/, /w/, /w/ watermelon.
X is for /ks/, /ks/, /ks/ Xmas cake.
Y is for /y/, /y/, /y/ yogurt.
Z is for /z/, /z/, /z/ zucchini.

Yummy ABC Flashcards

You can download the complete set of free printable ABC flashcards here.