Christmas- Describing Foods Bluff Game

Describing Xmas foods bluffing game

 

Student A/ Group A

Make up false answers for the gaps and read your sentences to another student or other students. Can they guess which answer is correct?

In Austria they often eat fried carp for Christmas dinner. Carp is a kind of:

1. fish
2. ___________________
3. ___________________

 

A British Xmas cake is usually covered with:

1. a) ____________________________
2. b) white sugar icing
3. c) _____________________________

 

The ingredients of a British Christmas cake include:

1. _________________________
2. raisins
3. _____________________________

 

If two types of potatoes are eaten as part of an Irish, British or Canadian Christmas dinner, they are usually:

1. mashed and roast
2. __________________________
3. __________________________

 

A traditional Ukrainian Christmas dinner has:

1. a) ______________________________
2. b) ______________________________
3. c) 12 courses

 

The main dish of a traditional German Xmas dinner is:

1. ________________________
2. roast goose
3. _______________________

 

Possible meats at a Dutch meal include pheasant. Pheasant is a kind of wild:

1. ____________________________
2. bird
3. _________________________

 

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Student B/ Group B

Make up false answers for the gaps and read your sentences to another student or other students. Can they guess which answer is correct?

Until turkey (which was discovered in America) became popular, the most popular Xmas dish in the UK was boar. Boar is a kind of wild:

1. pig
2. ________________________________
3. _______________________________

 

Traditional vegetables in a British Xmas dinner are always winter vegetables (salad is rarely eaten), such as roast parsnips. A parsnip looks like a pale:

1. carrot
2. _______________________________
3. _______________________________

 

A British Xmas pudding is:

1. a) ________________________________
2. b) steamed
3. c) ________________________________

 

If there is still some left over turkey after a British Xmas dinner (which is often, as it is a very big bird) it is eaten in sandwiches and as a salad. If there is still some left, turkey is used as an ingredient in:

1. a curry
2. ___________________________________
3. ___________________________________

 

Nut roast is a Xmas dinner suitable for:

1. ________________________________
2. ________________________________
3. vegetarians

 

The main ingredient of mince pies (often eaten on Xmas day in the UK and New Zealand) is:

1. ___________________________________
2. ____________________________________
3. dried fruit

 

Before it is a cooked, a turkey is often stuffed with:

1. __________________________________
2. bread and herbs
3. ___________________________________

 

If prawns are served as part of a Xmas dinner in the UK they are usually part of the:

1. starter
2. ___________________________
3. ___________________________

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Language of describing food presentation and practice

Without looking above, fill the words in the gaps below:

• In Austria they often eat fried carp for Christmas dinner. Carp is a ______________ fish
• A British Xmas cake is usually ______________________________ white sugar icing
• The ingredients of a British Christmas cake ____________________________ raisins
• A traditional Ukrainian Christmas dinner has 12 ____________________________
• The main ____________________ of a traditional German Xmas dinner is roast goose.
• Possible meats at a Dutch meal include pheasant. Pheasant is a kind of ________ bird.
• A parsnip ________________________________________________ a pale carrot.
• If there is still some left, turkey is used as an _________________________ in a curry
• Nut roast is a Xmas dinner suitable ____________________________ vegetarians
• The ____________________________________ ingredient of mince pies is dried fruit
• Before it is a cooked, a turkey is often stuffed _________________ bread and herbs
• If prawns are __________________ as part of Xmas dinner they are part of the starter

Check your answers above.

Find words above that are:

Ways of cooking	Vegetables	Kinds of meat	Types of seafood	Ingredients

Add more words to the categories above.

Using words and sentences similar to those above, describe a food (preferably a Xmas food) one sentence at a time and see if your partner can guess which food it is. 

Your teacher will give you some photos of unusual foods and ingredients (e.g. insects). Look at your photo but don’t show it to your partner. Reply to your partner’s questions about the food with only Yes or No answers. After 10 questions, they have to decide if they will accept it as part of their Xmas dinner. The person in the class with the best Xmas dinner when the teacher stops the activity is the winner.