Talking About Food & Eating
Twenty conversation prompts to get adults talking about food, cooking and eating habits. Practise giving reasons, sharing experiences and asking follow-up questions.
What’s in the worksheet?
- 20 discussion questions
- Familiar food and cooking topics
- Reasons, examples and follow-up questions
Explore cooking, restaurant choices, food preferences and changing eating habits through 20 conversation prompts. The sheet supports reasons, comparisons and personal examples rather than teaching a fixed set of food facts.
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A simple way to teach it
Before the lesson
Print the single page. Preteach eating out, cuisine and fried food if needed. Make health, diet and food restrictions optional discussion areas; learners can choose less personal prompts.
- Begin with favourite foods and cooking ability. Ask learners to add an example instead of stopping after a food name.
- Pairs choose questions about home cooking, restaurants and childhood preferences. Encourage a follow-up about a dish, occasion or reason.
- Use the restaurant-quality question or the one-cuisine-for-a-month choice for a closing discussion. Have pairs explain a recommendation or compare their choices.
Support and extension
For support, supply flavour words and I prefer… because… . For an extension, ask learners to explain a change in their eating habits using a past-and-present comparison. No answers are prescribed; assess the language and reasons, not the learner's diet.
Suggested approach. Adjust the pace and number of questions to suit your class.
