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These ESL conversation questions are a resource for both teachers and students. They can be used in class, or with a study buddy, or with somebody you do a language exchange with.
Tips for learners

In those in-between times when you can't find somebody to practise with I recommending trying to write down your answers, or even talking out loud to yourself!

Ensure you make notes of useful words and phrases that you either couldn't remember or didn't know when you were trying to explain something. This will really help you to move forward with your English.

I also highly recommend going through the questions a second or third time at a later date with somebody else, as a way of revision, and you are sure to notice that you are able to explain things faster and more effectively.

Where possible, expand on your answers, give more details.

If you're asking the questions, remember to use follow-up questions too. If the conversation goes off on a tangent that's totally fine - as long as you're practising, you're learning.

1. What are your favourite fruits?

2. What are your favourite vegetables?

3. What are your favourite herbs and spices?

4. Do you eat meat or are you a vegetarian?

5. What are your favourite pizza toppings?

6. What foods can't you stand?

7. When was the last time you ate out? Would you go back to that restaurant?

8. Do you have any favourite restaurants? What kind of food do they serve?

9. Which is your favourite foreign cuisine? And how often do you eat it?Do you ever prepare it yourself?

10. What are the advantages and disadvantages of fast food?

11. What's your favourite dessert?

12. Do you like baking? If so, what do you usually bake?

13. Do you batch cook? (= prepare several meals at the same time)

14. What do you usually have for breakfast?

15. What do you tend to drink with your meals?

16. Is there something you eat too much of?

17. Do you like trying new recipes or do you tend to eat the same things every day?

18. What foods or dishes do people eat when celebrating holy or special days in your country?

19. Do you ever make smoothies?

20. Do you drink alcohol? If so, what do you usually drink?

21. How often do you meet a friend for a coffee or for a meal?

22. What was one of your favourite meals when you were a child?

23. Do you make an effort to eat healthy every day?

24. If you had your own restaurant....b) what would the decor be like?
a) what kind of food would you serve?
c) where would it be located?
d) what music would you play? (or wouldn't you play music?)

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Conversation Questions for English learners: Food, Cooking and Eating Out - Recipes For English

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Photo: Ella Olsson, Unsplash These ESL conversation questions are a resource for both teachers and students. They can be used in class, or with a study buddy, or with somebody you do a language exchange with.

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ESL Discussions: Free worksheet and online activity on Food.

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Warm-up Task:
In turn, name different foods until one person cannot name a food within three seconds or repeats an already named food.

Discussion Questions:

1. What is your favorite food? How often do you eat it?

2. Which foods taste bad to you?

3. Is your country famous for any foods? What are they?

4. Who usually does the food shopping in your household? Where do they prefer to shop?

1. Have you tried growing your own food? How did it go?

2. If you could only eat one food for the rest of your life, what would you choose?

3. Do you know any vegetarians? If so, what foods do they not eat?

4. What food can you prepare? Are you a good cook?

5. Who is the best cook in your family? What foods do they prepare well?

6. Which culture's food, apart from your own, do you really like?

7. Which foods are unhealthy? What is unhealthy about them?

8. It is the 21st century. Why are people in some places still hungry?

9. How do you judge food? By taste, appearance, smell, or feel? Can food be delicious if it looks terrible?

10. Pick one food to represent you. Why did you choose it?

11. Has food ever made you sick? What happened?

12. Have you eaten any strange foods? Explain.

13. Are you or anyone you know allergic to any food? What happens if they eat that food accidentally?

14. What do you think about genetically modified food? Do you try to eat organic food?

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ESL Discussion: What is your favorite food? Is your country famous for any foods? Has food ever made you sick? What happened?

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A Part of Conversation Questions for the ESL Classroom.

Related: Restaurants, Fruits and Vegetables, Vegetarian, Diets, Tipping

About how many different color foods did you eat for dinner last night?
Do you think about color when you are preparing a meal?

Are there any foods that you wouldn't eat as a child that you eat now?

Are you a good cook?

Are you a vegetarian?

Are you concerned about your daily calorie intake when choosing something to eat?

At what times do you usually eat your meals?

Can you cook well?

Did you drink coffee this morning?

Did you eat lunch today?

Do you always eat dinner with your family?

Do you always eat vegetables?

Do you cook? If yes, what food do you cook the most often?

Do you drink milk every day?

Do you drink tea every day?

Do you eat beef?

Do you eat bread every day?f

Do you eat breakfast every day?

Do you eat fruit every day?

Do you eat lunch at school every day?

How much does lunch usually cost at school?

Do you bring your lunch to school?

Do you eat rice every day?

Do you ever skip breakfast? If so, how often and why?

Do you have a favorite cafe? If so, where is it? Why do you like it?

Do you have coffee for breakfast?

Do you know someone who struggles with an eating disorder?

Do you like Thai food?

Chinese food?

Spanish food?

American food?

Mozambican food?

French food?

Italian food?

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Do you like Japanese food?

What kind of Japanese food do you like?

Do you like deep fried food?

Do you like food from other countries? If yes, which do you like the most?

Do you like peas and carrots? How about spinach?

Do you like to cook? Why or why not?

Do you like to eat a lot of food every day?

Do you like to eat at fast food restaurants?

Do you like to eat cakes?

Do you like to eat junk food?

Do you like to eat some desserts after dinner?

Do you like to eat? Why or why not?

Do you like to have breakfast each morning? Why or why not?

Do you like to try new food and drinks?

Do you often eat out?

Do you prefer fish or meat?

Do you prefer to eat at a restaurant or at home?

Do you prefer your own country's food or other kinds of food?

Do you read the nutritional information on the foods you buy?

Do you take vitamin pills?

Do you think a vegetarian diet is better than a diet that includes meat?

Do you think fast food, soda and sweets should be sold in school cafeterias?

Do you usually want to eat dessert after dinner?

Have you ever been a diet? If so, how long did you stayed on it?

Have you ever eaten dog meat?

How long do you take to eat lunch?

How many calories do most people need every day?

How many meals do you usually eat every day?

How much do you eat when you are sad or happy?

How much does it cost to eat dinner at a hotel in your country?

How much rice do you eat?

How often do you eat at a fast-food restaurant?

How often do you eat bread?

How often do you eat fresh fruit?

How often do you eat in a restaurant? (How often do you eat out?)

Where do you usually go?

Who do you usually go with?

About how much do you spend?

Do you ever go to an Indian restaurant?

How often do you eat steak?

How often do you go drinking? What's your favorite drink?

How often do you go shopping for food?

If you are living abroad, what is the food that you miss most from home?

Is there any food that you really dislike to eat?

What are some foods that are considered unhealthy?

What are some foods that you know are healthy for your body?

What country's food do you like the most?

What did you eat for lunch yesterday?

What did you eat the last time you ate at a restaurant?

What did you have for breakfast this morning?

What did you have for supper last night?

What do you eat for breakfast every day?

What do you eat when you feel sad?

What do you like to drink?

What do you like to eat for your dinner?

What do you think of Thai food? Chinese food? English food?

What do you usually eat for lunch?

What do you usually like to drink when you go out?

What food can you cook the best?

What food do you hate? Why do you hate it?

What foods do you hate?

What foods do you love?

What foods have you tasted which you will never forget for the rest of your life?

What fruit do you eat the most often?

What have you eaten so far today?

What is a typical meal from your country?

What is one of your favorite foods?

What is the cheapest place to eat that you know?

About how much is a meal?

Where is it?

How often do you go there?

What is the food you like about your country.

What is the last meal you cooked for someone else?

What is the most expensive meal you have ever eaten?

What is the most expensive restaurant that you have ever been to?

What did you eat there?

When did you go?

Who did you go with?

What is the most unusual thing you've ever eaten. Did it taste good or bad?

What is the strangest thing you have ever eaten?

What is your favorite food?
Please describe your favorite food.

What is your favorite dessert?

What is your favorite fast food restaurant?

What is your opinion of Chinese food?

American food?

British food?

India food?

Greek food?

What kind of beverages do you usually drink?

What kind of desserts do you like to eat?

What kind of food do like to eat when you are angry?

What kind of food do you eat between meals?

What kind of food do you like the most?

What kind of food do you like to eat?

What kind of food does your mother make?

What kind of food that you think is the least healthy?

What kind of food that you think is the most healthy?

What kind of food you usually eat?

What kind of fruit do you like the best?

What kind of restaurants you like?

What kind of vegetables do you like?

What kinds of food do you usually eat for lunch?

What restaurant in this city do you recommend?

Why is it a good place?

About how much does a meal cost?

What special foods do you eat on holidays? (Christmas, New Year's Day, etc.)

What time do you usually eat breakfast? How about lunch and supper?

What vegetable do you like best?

What's the best restaurant you've ever been to?

What's the best restaurant you've ever been to? Why did you like it?

What's the strangest food you've ever eaten?

What's your favorite dessert?

What's your favorite drink in the summer?

What's your favorite fish?

What's your favorite food?

What's your favorite fruit?

What's your favorite junk food?

What's your favorite kind of ethnic food?

What's your favorite kind of food?

What's your favorite kind of meat?

What's your favorite restaurant? Why do you like it?

What's your favorite snack?

When was the last time you ate at a restaurant?

When was the last time you ate dinner with your mother?

Where do you usually eat dinner?

Which country's food do you like the most?

Which do you eat more often, rice, bread or potatoes?

Which fast food restaurants do like?

Which fast food restaurants do you eat at the most often?

Who do you usually eat dinner with?

Why are diets usually short?

Why can't people stop eating?

Why do you think obesity is becoming such a problem in the United States and throughout the world?

What do Chinese people eat for lunch?(Substitute the nationality of your students.)

Do you know the nutritional value of the things you eat every day?

Do you believe that "we are what we eat?"

How many meals a day do you think should be eaten?

Do you usually eat at home or eat at a restaurant?

Can you name a spice or flavoring that is good for your health?

If you were on death row, what would you request for your last meal?

Do you pray before each meal?

Have you ever eaten something that made you ill?

How many calories are in one hamburger?
If you don't know, can you make a guess? Is it more or less than an ice-cream cone?

Have you ever had pot-luck?

Have you ever tasted African food?

Does your family have any special recipes that are passed down from generation to generation?

What would you bring to a pot-luck lunch?

Do you like brunch?

How much should you tip the server in a restaurant?

What type of restaurants would you not tip in?

Have you ever found something disgusting in your food?

Have you ever sent food back in a restaurant?

Have you ever left a restaurant without paying ("dined and dashed")?

Do you like trying new foods?

What new foods have you tried this month?

What is the strangest food you have ever tried?

Do you have any food allergies?

Which food from this country do you like the least?

What do you think about super-sizing?

Should fast food restaurants serve healthier food?

Are food portions too big for our health?

What food would you like to see in a restaurant in this country?

Do you think it is good to count calories when you are eating?

Which food is overpriced?

What differences do you notice in the preparation of American/British/Australian and Chinese/Japanese/Korean foods?

Do the utensils we use to eat affect the kind or way we prepare the foods we eat?

Do you think that food defines a culture? If so, how?

Do you notice any differences in the way food is served at the table when you travel?

Do you enjoy eating intestines? (Substitute in other foods that students are not likely to enjoy.)

How does the etiquette of eating together in your country differ from other countries?

Are there any foods that bring back special memories for you? What are they?

What can you do when a fishbone is caught in your throat?

If you were invited to a fancy dinner with the president or a celebrity, what would you do to prepare?

Name a spice or flavoring that is good for your health?

What to do when you cut your finger preparing food?

Have you ever thought food was your only friend?

What types of foods do Japanese people eat?

What types of foods do Chinese people eat?

How often do you have unhealthy food?

When you are alone do you always cook a meal.

Pizza

Do you like pizza?

What is your favorite pizza topping?

How often do you eat pizza at a restaurant?

How often do you order pizza to your home?

Are there pizzerias near your home that deliver pizzas?

What do you like to drink with your pizza?

Do you know how to make a pizza?

Do you know who invented the pizza?

Why is pizza popular?

Have you ever called for pizza delivery?

How do you make pizza at home?

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World Food Day Quiz

Today we've got something a little more special than your typical trivia questions. It's not just about flexing your brain muscles (though that's always fun), but also about learning more about the world around us-and maybe even helping to make it better. Welcome to our World Food Day Quiz!

If you're wondering why you should care about World Food Day, let me ask you this: Have you ever had to skip a meal and felt hungry? Imagine if that feeling wasn't just a temporary inconvenience but a constant reality. For millions of people around the world, it is. World Food Day is all about raising awareness of global hunger, but it's also about taking action to ensure that everyone has access to nutritious food.

Before you start the quiz, grab a snack (seriously, we're talking about food a lot in this quiz!), get comfortable, and let's dive into some eye-opening facts about hunger and food security.

What is World Food Day?

World Food Day is celebrated every year on October 16th. It was first established in 1979 by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. Its purpose? To raise awareness about global hunger and malnutrition and to inspire solutions that ensure everyone has access to food. Think of it as a reminder that food should be a right, not a privilege.

Every year, World Food Day tackles different themes related to food security, agriculture, and sustainability. It encourages governments, organizations, and everyday people (like you and me!) to come together and take action. After all, we're all in this together.

Why Does Hunger Still Exist?

How is it possible that people are still going hungry when we have so much food on the planet? The sad truth is that hunger isn't just about the lack of food-it's about *access*. Here are a few reasons why hunger persists:

1. Poverty: People in poverty don't always have the means to buy enough food.

2. Conflicts: Wars and political instability can disrupt food production and access.

3. Climate change: Floods, droughts, and natural disasters can destroy crops and leave communities without food.

4. Food waste: Believe it or not, roughly one-third of the food produced globally is wasted every year!

It's pretty wild to think that while millions of people are going hungry, perfectly good food is going to waste. These are big problems, but awareness is the first step toward finding solutions-and that's why you're here, right?

World Hunger Stats

Here's some food for thought (pun intended!):

Over 820 million people suffer from chronic hunger. That's 1 in 9 people worldwide.

Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest rates of hunger, but Asia is home to the majority of the world's undernourished population.

Approximately 25,000 people (including 10,000 children) die every day due to hunger-related causes. This statistic is as heartbreaking as it is shocking.

But before you start feeling overwhelmed, know that you can make a difference, even if it seems small. By learning about these issues, sharing what you know, and making informed choices, you're already part of the solution!

FAQs About World Hunger
Q: What exactly is World Food Day?
A: World Food Day is celebrated every year on October 16th to raise awareness about global hunger and promote actions to end it. It's a day for everyone to come together and think about how we can make food accessible to all.
Q: Who suffers from hunger the most?
A: The people most affected by hunger are often those living in poverty, conflict zones, and areas impacted by climate change. Children and older people are especially vulnerable.
Q: How does food waste impact global hunger?
A: Food waste plays a significant role in global hunger. If we reduced the amount of food we waste, we could potentially help feed millions of people who are currently going hungry.
Q: What can I do to help with world hunger?
A: You can make small changes like reducing food waste, donating to organizations that fight hunger, or even just sharing what you've learned from this quiz to raise awareness.

How You Can Help

So, what can you do to make a difference? It might feel like world hunger is too big of a problem for one person to solve, but every little bit counts. Here are a few simple actions you can take:

Reduce food waste: Only buy what you need and make use of leftovers.

Donate to food banks: A little goes a long way for families in need.

Support sustainable agriculture: Choose products from companies that prioritize ethical practices.

Spread awareness: Share what you learn from this quiz with others!

Now that you've got the basics down, it's time to test your knowledge. Let's see how much you know about food, hunger, and the global fight for food security!

How to Take the World Food Day Quiz

You're almost there! Here's how to ace this quiz and learn some fascinating (and shocking) facts along the way:

1. Read each question carefully. The quiz is a mix of facts about food security, hunger, and solutions.

2. Select your answer from the multiple choices provided.

3. After you answer, we'll give you a quick explanation so you can learn something new!

4. Complete all the questions to see your final score.

5. Check out our leaderboard to see how you stack up against other players!

Each answer includes an explanation to help you understand the bigger picture. Whether you're already an expert or learning something new, this quiz will challenge and inform you.

Take the World Food Day Quiz

Now that you're prepped and ready, it's time to dive into the quiz! Think of it as your chance to test your knowledge and, who knows, maybe even spark some new ideas about how you can help tackle world hunger. The more we learn, the more we can do to make a difference!

Good luck, and we can't wait to see how well you do!

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