A selection of English ESL food game printables

Game food (every pupil has a picture and has to describe it and the others have to guess what it is) 

Food and drink - game

Listening and speaking. This worksheet helps students to develop listening comprehension. Students learn about Halloween food and games with the help of a fun video. The worksheet includes vocabulary focus, multiple choice assignments, and comprehension questions based on the short videos.  Students practice speaking sharing their tips on choosing food and games for the Halloween party in their class.   

Traditional Halloween Food and Games

A classic game that we all know and love.

Students simply have to describe the word on the card without saying any of the words at the bottom of the card. This can be done in different ways:

Team game. Students describe to their team or partner and get one point for each correct guess their partner makes within a set time limit.

Individual game. Students work in groups but take it in turns to describe. Whoever is first to guess correctly, gets one point. The winner is the student with the most points when all cards have been used.

Students can also do this activity on their smartphones via QR, visit english-able.com for QR codes and lots more like this.

This is an official Englishable worksheet uploaded by the copyright holder. 

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Food Taboo Cards

This worksheet is for students with elementary level. The students read the description, number the pictures and write the name of the food. 
It could be used as a game or homework.

PUZZLE CORNER - Food

Battle Eggs is the hottest, new EFL ESL Card Game Battle Eggs from BINGOBONGO Learning. 



 The game is incredibly simple to learn, yet great for challenging kids as young as 3 years old and up. 



Student love collecting the various Pet Cards which have profiles with information including colors, weather, numbers, hobbies, favorite food and drinks. There's even a secret hidden in each Pet's name if you read it backwards. 



There are also various levels of Battle Decks with vocab cards and Battle Egg cards! If students can say (or spell) the vocab words, then they can keep the cards for points. If they don't know, then they have a battle with the Pet Cards. 



 This EFL ESL Card Game, Battle Eggs, will change the way your students think about learning English, and they'll be asking to play over and over. 



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Materials 1 handout, cut up, for each pair of students

• Divide the class into pairs and give each pair a set of cards.

Tell them to spread the cards out on the desk face up and

match the vocabulary items to the correct pictures. Circulate

and help students out as necessary.

• Working in pairs, students then play a memory game,

pelmanism, as follows.

• Students shuffle the cards and spread them out face down.

They take turns to turn over any two cards. As they turn each

card, they say the body part. If the cards match, the student

keeps the cards and has another go. If they don’t match, he/

she turns them back over, making sure they stay in the same

place. The game continues until all the cards have been

matched. The student with the most cards wins.

• As students are playing the game, circulate and correct

pronunciation as necessary.

• If you are short of preparation time, get students to do the

task in groups of four or ask them to cut up the handouts.

Food Pelmanism

Another silly short role play/dialogue to read or say aloud. Easy comprehension questions follow. The second page consists of the key and information for the teacher. It would be a good idea to have a discussion about coffee and owls before proceeding with the worksheet.

Role Play: The 12th Cup of Coffee + KEY

This table of vegetable pictures and words can be used for playing such games as Vegetable domino, memory game, matching or Black Jack game. All these acivities are good for new vocabulary practicing

Vegetables (games)

Students can work together to practice sight words for making a simple version of s'mores. Color blocks on the cards help students match the correct phrases with the vocab and numbers on the first word help to put them in order. 



This is great if you are doing a camping activity and want to incorporate a snack. Students will love piecing the directions together to discover they get to eat in class. 

S'mores Sight Words

Used for ESL student to practice phrases "I want to go" and "I like"

gameboard on countries and food

This (B5) sheet can be used for a mulititude of activities. Get the studetns warmed up for the days lesson by interviewing each student and having them sign your paper. Sorry but not too fancy. Enjoy  =)

Sign Please!

This worksheet can be used either in a big group of students or like a kind of one-on-one activity. The topic can be anything: food, clothes, free-time activities, space travel, adventures, etc. You can also practice any grammar points you need and use the worksheet in any part of the lesson you want. E.g. I used it like a warm-up speaking activity on the topic of "How i spent my winter holidays". It\'s also useful in the practice of speech structure and storytelling.

The Secret Word speaking game 

Culture, intercultural communication, cross-cultural communication

Adjectives to describe feelings, emotions

Adjectives to describe personality and character

Adjectives: Gradable / Non-gradable adjectives

Articles: Definite or indefinite article (a, an or the)

BE + infinitive structures (e.g. he was to become famous)

Clauses of contrast (e.g.  although, while)

Clauses of purpose (e.g. in order to, so that, so as to)

Clauses of reason (e.g. because, because of, due to, as, since)

Cleft sentences (e.g. It's Joey we're looking for)

Comparison: Comparative adjectives and structures

Comparison: Superlative adjectives and structures

Conditional 2 (second conditional) - would

Conditionals: Conditional phrases (e.g. unless, provided that, as long as)

Conjunctions (aka connectives, e.g. and, but, or, so, then)

Contractions (shortened forms, e.g. don't, aren't, etc.)

Determiners (words that can come before nouns)

Formal and informal English (politeness or colloquial language)

Future perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Future perfect simple and continuous (progressive) tense

Future phrases (e.g. be about to, bound to, likely to, due to, set to + INF)

Homonyms (two words with the same pronunciation - homophones and homographs)

It as preparatory subject (e.g. it's raining, it's nice of you to)

Linking verbs (aka copulas, e.g. I am a student)

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Nouns: Collective nouns (team, class, family, committee)

Nouns: Proper nouns (names of people, cities, companies)

Oxymorons (phrases with words of contradictory meaning, e.g. living dead)

Participles: Past participle (e.g. HAVING DONE)

Participles: Present participle (e.g. DOING)

Parts of Speech (aka word classes, e.g. nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs)

Past perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Phonetics (pronunciation, IPA, phonetic symbols)

Plural nouns: regular plurals with S ending

Prefixes (e.g. A, UN, IM, DIS, MIS, EN, etc. )

Prepositions vs adverbs (e.g. before me, saw him before.)

Prepositions: Double prepositions (e.g. out of)

Prepositions: Participle prepositions (e.g. pending, concerning)

Prepositions: Phrase prepositions (e.g. by means of)

Present perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Present perfect simple or present continuous tense

Present simple tense: S for third person singular verbs

Present simple vs continuous (progressive) tense

Pronouns: EACH OTHER, ONE ANOTHER (reciprocal pronouns)

Pronouns: Possessive pronouns (e.g. my, mine)

Pronouns: Reflexive pronouns (e.g. myself, yourself))

Pronouns: SOMEBODY, ANYBODY, EVERYBODY, NO ONE, NOTHING, etc.

Pronouns: THIS, THAT, THESE, THOSE (demonstratives)

Pronouns: YOU and THEY to talk about people in general

Quantifiers (e.g. some, many, much, any, few, little)

Questions: WH questions (open-ended questions)

Reported speech: reported questions (indirect questions)

There is / there are / there was / there were / there will be, etc.

Verbs: Transitive or intransitive verbs (words that can or cannot stand with objects)

Working with Paragraphs: ordering, titling

Role play, miming, drama activity or improv game

Pictionary (picture dictionary) or picture matching

Writing an opinion essay (persuasive essay)

Learners who are Pre-A1 have just begun learning English and will first learn how to:<ul><li>Say the letters in the alphabet and numbers</li><li>Say hello, talk about names and age</li><li>Name the colors and dates, express likes and dislikes</li></ul>

Absolute beginners who have begun to learn the letters and numbers

Learners taking the A1 Elementary exam should be able to:<ul><li>Introduce themselves and ask and answer questions about personal details such as where he/she lives, things he/she has, people he/she knows.</li><li>Communicate using very basic phrases as long as the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: common adjectives & adverbs of frequency, going to, how much/how many, imperatives, I'd like, 's – possessive, common prepositions of place and time, present simple & continuous, there is/are</li></ul>

A very basic tourist level, which is enough for buying food and a bus ticket

Learners taking the A2 Pre-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand sentences and frequently used expressions (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment).</li><li>Complete tasks that are routine and exchange information about familiar matters.</li><li>Describe matters of immediate need in simple terms.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: countable/uncountable nouns, adverbs of frequency, future will/going to, much/many, present perfect, past simple, past continuous, common phrasal verbs, common modals: can/should</li></ul>

A tourist who can do basic conversations about the past, present and future

Learners taking the B1 Intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand points regarding family, work, school or leisure-related topics.</li><li>Deal with most travel situations in areas where the language is spoken.</li><li>Create simple texts on topics of personal interest.</li><li>Describe experiences, events, dreams, and ambitions, as well as opinions or plans in brief.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: question tags, intensifiers: too/enough, future tenses, past tenses, modals, conditionals, wh-questions in the past</li></ul>

Learners who can deal with both familiar and routine situations, in friendly and work contexts

Learners taking the B2 Upper-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.</li><li>Interact with fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without difficulty for either party.</li><li>Produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain an opinion on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: perfect tenses, mixed conditionals, modals in the present, phrasal verbs, reported speech, wish, relative clauses</li></ul>

The level where you can be a tour guide for your foreign friends and talk about a lot of topics, even abstract ones, with ease and fluency

Learners taking the C1 Advanced exam should be able to: Express ideas fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions. Use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes. Understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts. Produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, using linking phrases (=words that connect ideas between sentences). Main grammar points to know: inversion, mixed conditionals, modals in the past, all passive forms, phrasal verbs (all patterns), wish/if only for regrets

Learners who can smoothly communicate in every walk of life, read long texts and write well

Learners taking the C2 Proficient exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand almost everything read or heard with ease.</li><li>Summarize information from a variety of sources into a coherent presentation.</li><li>Express themselves using precise meaning in complex scenarios.</li><li>Can express him/herself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in the most complex situations</li></ul>

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