Talk about food: 70 conversation prompts for pre-intermediate English learners intermediate

Stimulate discussion in English with these conversation prompt cards all about food!

With this set of 70 conversation prompts, help your students practise language patterns commonly used to form and answer questions, while discussing their relationship with food, cooking, and healthy eating.

What is your favourite healthy food? What time do you usually eat breakfast? You are a vegetarian, aren’t you?

Each colour-coded set of questions is designed to demonstrate common patterns taught to pre-intermediate learners of English, with special phrases specifically related to food and dining delineated in italics.

Key language demonstrated:

Adverbs of frequency – Usually. (e.g. What time do you usually eat at the weekend?)

“Will” & “going to” (e.g. Will you eat out this week? Are you going to cook tonight?)

Simple past (e.g. Did you skip breakfast yesterday?)

Expressing preferences (e.g. which do you prefer, Italian or Mexican food?)

Superordinals in the present perfect (e.g. What is the most delicious meal you have eaten?)

Question tags – do/is/are/can (e.g. you’re a good cook, aren’t you? You like ice cream, don’t you?)

…and many more!

These conversation prompts allow you students to identify and learn common English collocations and patterns in a natural, communicative way, while making the class personal to them and their lives.

These cards are suitable for pre-intermediate learners, but are also suitable for those above. Discussion-based, they can be used to start a class or activity, before having students develop from there.

Identify common errors and language needs while your students talk, and enliven your language classroom with engaging discussions!