Food Stories: A Speaking Game
Adults navigate a 24-space board by sharing food experiences, asking questions, and using past tenses and conditionals. Teams compete by answering genuine communicative prompts anchored to real-world food situations.
A free Board Game for Adults at CEFR B1 level. Topic: food.
Speaking prompts on the board
- Ask your partner what they ate yesterday and whether they enjoyed it.
- Your team must agree on the best dish to cook for a dinner party. Why?
- Act out preparing a meal — your partner guesses what you are cooking.
- Describe a time when you were eating and something funny happened.
- Ask your partner: if you could only eat one food forever, what would it be and why?
- Explain what happens if someone doesn't eat breakfast before work or school.
- Stand up and mime eating something sour — your team guesses what it is.
- You have 60 seconds to convince the class that your favourite food is the healthiest choice.
- Ask your partner what food they ate as a child that they no longer like.
- Compare your breakfast habits with your partner — who eats healthier and why?
- Discuss with your group: what would you cook if you had three hours and unlimited ingredients?
- Explain what you would do if you arrived at a restaurant and they had no vegetarian options.
- Act out ordering food at a busy restaurant — your partner is the server.
- Describe the last time you cooked something and it didn't turn out well. What went wrong?
- Ask your partner: would you prefer to cook at home or eat at restaurants? Why?
- You have 30 seconds to present a recipe you know well — explain the main steps.
- Your team must agree: what is the worst food-related experience you have heard about?
- Explain what you would have done differently if you had known a friend was vegetarian before inviting them to dinner.
- Stand up and show with your hands how you would cut vegetables — your partner names them.
- Ask your partner about a food from another country they have tried. Did they like it?
- Describe what you were doing when you last felt very hungry and what you ate.
- Discuss with your group: if restaurants closed tomorrow, how would life change for your community?
- Compare two foods you like — explain which one is healthier and why you think so.
- Act out a food allergy situation at a dinner — your partner responds as the host.