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A1 Beginner • 20 Mins Unit: Food and Drink

🍿 Snacks and drinks

Learn 10 everyday words for snacks, drinks, and tastes. Listen, match, write, and record your voice!

Cozy picnic table with a red bowl of popcorn, crispy biscuits, a plate of cheese cubes, roasted nuts, a glass cup of hot

i How to use this lesson

👩‍🏫 For the teacher

Walk through the word table with learners in 5 minutes, then let them do the 16 practice tasks at their own speed. Check the answers together and praise good tries.

🎒 For the learner

Read the words out loud and look at the memory tips first. Next, finish the 16 practice questions and record your voice in the shadowing section.

Word table

Ten useful words in 3 groups: snacks, drinks, and how it tastes.

Group 1: Snacks

4 words

Word	Meaning	Common collocations	Example sentence	Memory tip
popcorn 🔊	warm corn snack in a bowl	warm popcorn, salty popcorn	I eat warm popcorn at the cinema.	Sound: corn goes "pop!"
biscuit 🔊	a small, dry, crunchy snack	sweet biscuit, dry biscuit	She has a sweet biscuit with tea.	Sound: say "bis-kit" (silent u)
nuts 🔊	small hard seeds you can eat	salty nuts, mixed nuts	These salty nuts taste good.	Picture: a little brown shell
cheese 🔊	yellow or white food made from milk	yellow cheese, fresh cheese	I put yellow cheese on my bread.	Say "cheese!" and smile 😁

Group 2: Drinks

3 words

Word	Meaning	Common collocations	Example sentence	Memory tip
tea 🔊	a warm drink made with water and leaves	hot tea, green tea	Grandma drinks hot tea every day.	Letter: sounds like the letter T
water 🔊	clear drink you have every day	cold water, fresh water	Please drink cold water after running.	Picture: blue rain drops
milk 🔊	white drink from a cow	fresh milk, cold milk	The boy drinks fresh milk with breakfast.	Picture: a happy white cow

Group 3: How it tastes

3 words

Word	Meaning	Common collocations	Example sentence	Memory tip
sweet 🔊	tastes like sugar or honey	sweet biscuit, sweet tea	This biscuit is very sweet.	Contrast: sweet candy vs sour lemon
salty 🔊	tastes like salt from the sea	salty popcorn, salty nuts	I like salty popcorn with my movie.	Word part: salt + y = salty
yummy 🔊	very good to eat or drink	yummy snack, yummy cheese	This yellow cheese is yummy.	Sound: rub tummy and say "yum!"

Practice

16 tasks from easy to hard. Do each task carefully.

Part 1

Words that go together (Collocation matrix)

Choose the word that goes naturally with each adjective or temperature.

1. Which word goes with hot?

____ tea ____ cheese ____ nuts

2. Which word goes with cold?

____ popcorn ____ water ____ biscuit

3. Which word goes with sweet?

____ biscuit ____ cheese ____ water

4. Which word goes with salty?

____ tea ____ milk ____ nuts

Part 2

Gap-fills with a word bank

Word Bank (type one word in each blank):

popcorn milk cheese yummy

5. At the movies:

"We have movie tickets. Let's buy warm ___ in a big bucket."

____

6. Morning breakfast:

"The baby drinks fresh white ___ from a bottle."

____

7. Sandwich lunch:

"I put yellow ___ and bread together to make lunch."

____

8. Tasting the cake:

"This snack tastes very good. It is so ___!"

____

Part 3

Choose the word

Every option is real English, but only one option makes sense in the sentence.

9. "I am thirsty after the walk. Please give me a cup of hot ___."

____ a. tea ____ b. popcorn ____ c. cheese

10. "There is too much salt on this food. It is too ___."

____ a. sweet ____ b. salty ____ c. dry

11. "This crunchy snack has sugar on top. It tastes very ___."

____ a. water ____ b. salty ____ c. sweet

12. "A little animal climbs the tree and eats small hard ___."

____ a. milk ____ b. nuts ____ c. tea

Part 4

Sentence-building

Put the 4 to 6 words in the right order to make a good English sentence.

13. Words:

like I popcorn warm

____ (Type the full sentence here)

14. Words:

drinks water cold He

____ (Type the full sentence here)

15. Words:

sweet is This biscuit

____ (Type the full sentence here)

16. Words:

eats cheese She and nuts

____ (Type the full sentence here)

Shadowing

Listen, repeat, and record your voice in the 10 boxes below.

Part A 4 Common collocations

17 Listen 🔊

hot tea

[Bài tập luyện nói]

____

18 Listen 🔊

cold water

[Bài tập luyện nói]

____

19 Listen 🔊

sweet biscuit

[Bài tập luyện nói]

____

20 Listen 🔊

salty nuts

[Bài tập luyện nói]

____

Part B 4 Short sentences

21 Listen 🔊

"I like warm popcorn."

[Bài tập luyện nói]

____

22 Listen 🔊

"This cheese is yummy."

[Bài tập luyện nói]

____

23 Listen 🔊

"She drinks fresh milk."

[Bài tập luyện nói]

____

24 Listen 🔊

"I eat a sweet biscuit."

[Bài tập luyện nói]

____

Part C 2 Everyday sentences

25 Listen 🔊

"Cold water is good today."

[Bài tập luyện nói]

____

26 Listen 🔊

"These salty nuts taste great."

[Bài tập luyện nói]

____

Part D Two hard words: Special pronunciation

Final challenge

Hard Word 1 Listen 🔊

biscuit

💡 Pronunciation trick: The letter "u" is completely silent! Say it as two quick sounds: "bis - kit".

[Bài tập luyện nói]

____

Hard Word 2 Listen 🔊

water

💡 Pronunciation trick: Start with an open "wah" sound and finish softly: "wah - ter".

[Bài tập luyện nói]

____

Vocabulary & Pronunciation: Snacks and Drinks

🍿 Snacks and drinks

i How to use this lesson

Word table

Group 1: Snacks

Group 2: Drinks

Group 3: How it tastes

Practice

Words that go together (Collocation matrix)

Gap-fills with a word bank

Choose the word

Sentence-building

Shadowing

Part A 4 Common collocations

Part B 4 Short sentences

Part C 2 Everyday sentences

Part D Two hard words: Special pronunciation

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