Activity type: this is a word finding puzzle in which students have to find words to do with food in a word grid.
Level: Beginner
Teacher's notes:
- This is a useful exercise/puzzle to do at the end of a lesson about food or as a review activity after having taught lessons about food.
- Explain that the students are going to be given grids full of letters.
- Show them a grid.
- Explain that they have to find food words in the grid of letters.
- Explain that the words are only horizontal or vertical. You can demonstrate what these two words mean by drawing lines horizontally and vertically on the board.
- Tell the students that there are 17 words in the grid which are listed below.
- The students can do this activity alone or in pairs. Tell them to find the words and to draw lines through them or around them to indicate where the words are as quickly as possible.
- The first students to finish are the winners!
Words:
| Chocolate |
Tomatoes |
| Salads |
Soup |
| Meat |
Rice |
| Fish |
Cakes |
| Hamburger |
Eggs |
| Cheese |
Plums |
| Sausages |
Apple |
| Pear |
Pizza |
| Bread |
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