Learn and practise food and drink vocabulary with puzzles, quizzes and exercises.
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Food and Drink Exercises
Food and Drink Exercises focuses on the basic vocabulary and structures needed for social interaction and everyday experiences. There are puzzles and quizzes to reinforce your learning so you feel confident using different texts about food and drink.
⏱️ About 15–20 minutes.
💡 Strengthening new vocabulary for food and drink.
📶 Developing stages of learning English.
Find as many food and drink words as you can hiding in the grid. Words can run across, down, or diagonally — and some may be backwards!
👀 Scan one row or column at a time so you don’t miss any words.
⏱️ Try to find at least 8 words before you check the Key Vocabulary tab for help.
✏️ Not sure what a word means once you find it? Look it up in Key Vocabulary.
New to these words? Check the Key Vocabulary tab first.
Choose your level to start playing
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Use the clues to complete the crossword with food and drink vocabulary. Click on a numbered box to reveal its clue, then type your answer into the grid.
🔢 Across clues run left to right; down clues run top to bottom.
💡 Stuck on a clue? The Key Vocabulary tab has definitions for the trickiest words.
✅ Check your spelling carefully — one wrong letter can affect a crossing word too.
New to these words? Check the Key Vocabulary tab first.
Choose your level to start playing
Log in to save your progress and unlock personalised levels.
Group food and drink words by category to help you remember them — containers (bottle, bowl, glass, can), cutlery (fork), meal times (breakfast, meal, snack, dessert), and feelings (hungry, thirsty). Watch out for course and dish — both have two different meanings depending on the context, so always check the rest of the sentence.
Can You…?
✅ Name 3 containers you can use for food or drink?
✅ Explain the difference between hungry and thirsty?
✅ Use course in a sentence about a meal?
✅ Name something you can boil?
🗣️ Speaking practice
Talk about food and drink.
🍳 What did you have for breakfast today?
🍽️ Describe your favourite meal. What is in it?
🥢 Talk about a food you don’t like. Why don’t you like it?
✍️ Writing practice
Write a short description (25 words or more) of your favourite meal.
📝 Use at least four food and drink words from this page.
🍴 Say when you usually eat this meal.
🔎 Vocabulary challenge
These words are not explained on this page — look them up, then write your own sentence for each one.
🍖 beef
🍟 chips
🍋 lemon
🧂 pepper
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Extra Food and Drink Exercises
Practise what you have learned with these exercises.
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A2 Key Vocabulary
Practise topic-based vocabulary to support every part of the A2 Key exam.
Explore free English vocabulary exercises by topic, ideal for building the words and phrases needed at A2 Key (KET) level and beyond.
Cambridge English exams are designed for learners at all levels, from the elementary level Cambridge English: Key (KET) to the very advanced level Cambridge English: Proficiency (CPE). These exams give candidates proof of their ability to use English in a wide variety of contexts, relevant to work, study and leisure activities.
