VOCABULARY: Types of food

Types of food

Now that you know the difference between food, dish and meal, let's focus on types of food. Look at the picture below and do the following tasks.

Write a word for each number in your notebook or on an electronic document. If you don'k know how to say it in English, go to wordreference.com to help you.
Classify the words into the groups below. There is one word that does not go into any of the categories, which one is it?

Food groups

Ana Losada e José Luis Murado. CC BY-SA

Meat and fish

Grains

Dairy

Vegetables

Fruit

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1. cream, 2. cereals, 3. chicken, 4. cheese, 5. broccoli, 6. carrot, 7. avocado, 8. potato, 9. butter, 10. tomato, 11. eggs, 12. orange, 13. peach, 14, spinach, 15. yoghurt, 16. rice, 17. ice cream, 18. turkey, 19. pasta, 20. hamburger, 21. fish, 22. lettuce, 23. watermelon, 24. melon, 25. pepper, 26. strawberry, 27. milk, 28. bread, 29. ham, 30. cauliflower.

The word that does not go into any of the categories is eggs.

Meat and fish: chicken, turkey, ham, hamburger

Grains: cereals, bread, pasta, rice.

Dairy: cream, cheese, butter, yoghurt, milk.

Vegetables: broccoli, carrot, potato, tomato, spinach, pepper

Fruit: avocado, orange, peach, watermelon, melon, strawberry

Now, check the pronunciation of each word in the recording below. Listen and repeat.

Ana Losada e José Luis Murado. CC BY-SA

Bonus Task

To learn more vocabulary about food, click the link below:

Food

You will be taken to Learning Chocolate, a very useful website to learn vocabulary as it includes wordsorganised into categories and plenty of exercises to revise their spelling and pronunciation.

Watch the following tutorial to learn how to use the site:

How to use Learning Chocolate to Improve Your English. Vídeo de Curso Tic Oral Skills en YouTube. Licencia CC BY

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