Last year I changed my classroom arrangement, so my students could easily work in pairs and in groups. At first some of them didn't like it, and their behaviour was disruptive but I was persistent. I wanted them to talk in English, so I tried to prepare attractive speaking activities for almost each lesson.

This speaking activity was inspired by my post "What's in your fridge?" from 2015. This time I gave my students ready-made cards. They were divided into groups of four and each group was divided into two pairs. Each pair was given a picture of a fridge but there were some differences in the content of fridges. The task was to ask and answer some questions, such as "Are there any apples in your fridge?" to find out the differences.

You can download and print my fridges here:

1) front:

2) back:

 

You can use it to practice different grammar structures: to have got, there is/there are, some/any etc.

Do you have any other ideas how to use my printable fridges? Please, share them in the comments.

Last Tuesday my 5th-graders went to a pizza restaurant. Of course, it was an imaginary restaurant in our classroom. They acted out small scenes to practice ordering food. Some of them were waiters and waitresses and the others were customers. Everyone was involved and even shy students could shine.

What kind of food is countable? What kind is not? To help my students talk about countable and uncountable nouns, I've prepared a speaking exercise "What's in your fridge?"

Each students got a fridge outline to cut, fold and stick into the notebook.

Here you can download fridge front and back. You just have do print it double-sided.

Then I asked my students to choose 10 items from food vocabulary list and to draw them in the fridge. I divided the students into pairs (student A and student B) and one group of 3.

Students A were supposed to ask students B about the items from list A and vice versa. They also had to write down any items that were missing in the fridge.

As you can see, my 5th-graders enjoyed the exercise.

What are countable and uncountable nouns? It is easier to explain it in relation to food and drink.

Every food item that you can count (that has both the singular and the plural form) is countable, e.g. apple - I can eat one apple or I can eat ten apples. Every substance, such as water, meat or cheese is uncountable (it can't be made plural). Although there are some ways to "count" the uncountable nouns. We can measure the amount of a substance or put it in a container,  e.g. a slice of cheese or a bottle of mineral water.
Here is a little handout:
1) countable and uncountable nouns: some, any, how many, how much;
2) how to count food and drink;
3) quantities and containers pictionary.

 

All pictures come from: http://pixabay.com/

I love teaching about food and drink. Most of my students also like this topic.
Here's a pictionary, a wordsearch and a crossword.

Food and Drink by kakitis

It's a basic selection of vocabulary items, so if you want to learn and pracitse much more, you can visit: http://www.languageguide.org/english-uk/vocabulary/

There are five sections about food: 

 

fruit

vegetables

food

drinks, beverages

sweets

You can choose the level of difficulty, listen to each word and check the spelling. I hope you'll find it useful.

PS. Have you heard of Freerice? Play a game and help end hunger.