Food Quest: A Speaking Board Game
Teams of boys aged 13 race around a 24-space board answering speaking prompts about food, cooking, restaurants, and eating habits. Prompts emphasize real-world communication gaps—asking partners for opinions, negotiating team decisions, and describing personal experiences. Designed for B1 learners to practise present perfect, past simple, conditionals, and embedded clauses in authentic contexts.
A free Board Game for Teens at CEFR B1 level. Topic: food.
Speaking prompts on the board
- Ask your partner what they had for breakfast today and whether they enjoyed it.
- Your team must agree: what is the best fast food restaurant in your city and why?
- Describe a meal you have cooked yourself. What ingredients did you use?
- Act out preparing a sandwich. Your team guesses what type it is.
- Ask your partner: have you ever tried food from a country you have never visited?
- Explain why you like or dislike a vegetable. Give at least two reasons.
- You have 30 seconds to present your ideal dinner. What would you eat and who would you invite?
- Stand up and mime eating something very spicy. Your team guesses what it is.
- Compare your favourite breakfast food to your partner's. How are they different?
- Ask your partner: if you could eat only one food forever, what would it be and why?
- Discuss with your team: what should a healthy school lunch include? Agree on three items.
- Describe a restaurant you have visited. What food did they serve and was it good?
- You have 45 seconds to convince your team that pizza is the best food ever invented.
- Act out ordering food at a restaurant. Your partner is the waiter or waitress.
- Explain what you would cook if you had to make dinner for your whole class.
- Ask your partner: what food do you hate and why did you decide you did not like it?
- Your team must agree on the best snack to eat while playing video games.
- Describe what you would do if you burned your dinner. What would you eat instead?
- Stand up and show with your hands how you would eat spaghetti, corn, and soup.
- Compare eating at home with eating at a restaurant. Which do you prefer and why?
- You have 60 seconds to describe your favourite meal from start to finish.
- Ask your partner: have you ever tried food that looked strange but tasted good?
- Discuss with your team: what food would you bring to a desert island and why?
- Explain what you would learn to cook if you had more time. Why does it interest you?