ESL Connect - Food and Shopping

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Food and shopping

Talk about food you have, food you need and things you buy.

Warm-up questions

What food do you eat every day?
Where do you usually buy food?
What is your favourite meal?
Do you make a shopping list?

Key language

There is some bread.

There are some apples.

There isn’t any milk.

Are there any tomatoes?

Vocabulary

Food groups

Drag each food word to the correct description.

bread cheese apple chicken rice carrot

1. A round fruit that can be red or green.

2. An orange vegetable.

3. A food made from flour, often eaten at breakfast.

4. A dairy food made from milk.

5. A type of meat.

6. Small white or brown grains that people cook and eat.

Vocabulary 2

At the supermarket

Choose the correct shopping word.

1. You carry a small number of items in a ______.

receipt basket shelf

2. You push a ______ when you buy many things.

trolley cashier price

3. The paper showing what you bought is the ______.

change receipt aisle

4. The person who takes your payment is the ______.

customer cashier manager

5. A note of the things you need to buy is a ______.

shopping list price tag shopping bag

Reading

Shopping for dinner

Read the text and answer the questions.

Ella wants to make pasta for dinner. She has some pasta and some cheese at home, but she doesn’t have any tomatoes. There isn’t any milk, and there aren’t any onions. She goes to the supermarket and buys some tomatoes, an onion, some milk and some bread. She also buys some apples for dessert.

1. What does Ella want to make?

soup pasta salad

2. What does she already have at home?

tomatoes cheese milk

3. What doesn’t she have?

pasta tomatoes cheese

4. What does she buy for dessert?

bananas cake apples

5. Which drink does she buy?

juice milk water

Grammar

Some and any

Use some mainly in affirmative sentences and any mainly in negatives and questions.

Use	Example
Affirmative	There is some bread. There are some bananas.
Negative	There isn’t any cheese. There aren’t any eggs.
Question	Is there any milk? Are there any apples?
Offer / request	Would you like some tea? Can I have some water?

1. There is ______ rice in the cupboard.

any some a

2. There isn’t ______ butter.

some any an

3. Are there ______ oranges?

some many any

4. We need ______ tomatoes.

any some an

5. Would you like ______ coffee?

some any many

Questions

At the shop

Complete the questions and answers.

1. Do you have ______ apples?

2. Yes, we have ______ green apples.

3. Is there ______ milk?

4. No, there isn’t ______ milk.

5. Can I have ______ bread, please?

Speaking

Shopping role play

Practise buying food with a partner.

Customer

Do you have any tomatoes?
Can I have some cheese, please?
Is there any bread?
How much is it?
Thank you.

Shop assistant

Yes, we have some...
No, we don’t have any...
Here you are.
It’s €...
You’re welcome.

Write a shopping list

Review

Final check

Drag the jumbled words into the correct gaps.

any some any some some

1. There are ______ bananas in the bowl.

2. There isn’t ______ juice in the fridge.

3. Are there ______ eggs?

4. We need ______ bread.

5. Would you like ______ tea?

Can you do these things?

Name common foods and shopping items.
Use some in affirmative sentences.
Use any in negatives and questions.
Ask for food politely.
Complete a simple shopping role play.

Buy food and talk about quantities