A2 Food & Eating Vocabulary

Sixty cards, each with the word, its part of speech, a short A2 definition, an example sentence, and two typical collocations on the back — a baked potato, a glass of milk, a tasty dish. Rate each card “I knew it” or “Still learning” and your ratings are saved automatically.

Eight gap sentences that ask for a different form of a word you have just met: bake becomes baker, taste becomes tasty and tasteless, fresh becomes freshness, hungry becomes hunger. Every answer comes with a one-line explanation of why that form fits the gap.

Ten pairs built around the quantity words English uses with food: a loaf of bread, a bar of chocolate, a pinch of salt, a bowl of soup, a slice of cake — plus call the waiter and pay the bill for the restaurant half of the topic.

A mix of multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank, with an explanation after every answer, right or wrong. Your best score is saved automatically.

English rarely says “a bread” or “a chocolate.” It says a loaf of bread, a bar of chocolate, a slice of cake, a bowl of soup. The collocations section drills exactly these, and at A2 they do more for you than another ten ingredients would.

Boil and fry need liquid or oil, bake happens in the oven, and cut, mix and add all happen before any heat. Sorting the verbs by the stage they belong to is faster than learning them in the order they appear.

Sweet, bitter, sour, salty and spicy are the five basic taste words, and delicious and tasty are the two that simply mean good. Learn them as one small group and you can describe any meal you eat.

After you finish the flashcard deck, it automatically rebuilds itself from just the words marked “still learning.” A short second pass on the hard ones is worth more than repeating the whole deck.

Describe your last meal in three sentences using words from this module — one ingredient, one cooking verb, one taste word. “I fried an egg. It was a little salty.” Short and true beats long and invented.