British or American Food and Drink- Trivia Quiz
A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS
Food and drink in the UK and USA and in UK and USA English review, starting with a fun general knowledge quiz.
Lesson Plan Content:
British or American food and drink trivia quiz
Student A
Read out a line from your worksheet and see if your partner can guess if it is about the UK (the underlined one) or about the USA. Don’t change the wording, as each line has both useful facts and useful language (British English or American English) to help with guessing. If their guess is right, they get two points. If they are not sure or don’t understand the hint, they can ask for the other hint in the same section and then guess which one is British and which is American. A correct guess after two hints gets one point. Take turns guessing if the other person’s statements are about the UK or USA until your teacher stops you.
Where do people eat cold Swiss Miss vanilla pudding?
Where do people eat Marks and Spencer’s hot treacle pudding with custard?
Where do people eat Hartley’s mandarin jelly with cream or ice cream?
Where do people eat Smucker’s grape jelly in peanut butter and jelly sandwiches?
Where do people drink Ribena berry squash mixed with water?
Where do people eat hot Pacific Foods butternut squash soup?
Where are Minute Maid ice pops from?
Where are Walls Twister ice lollies from?
Where are Asda porridge oats from?
Where is Quaker Oats oatmeal from?
Where is a neat Johnnie Walker Scotch whisky from?
Where is a straight Jim Beam bourbon from?
Where do Amtrak Texas Eagle line trains have dining cars?
Where do Caledonian Sleeper trains have buffet cars?
Where can I buy a gallon of Whole Foods Market skim milk?
Where can I buy two litres of Morrison’s skimmed milk?
Where can I buy Bud Light at Louisville’s Liquor Barn and Party Mart liquor stores?
Where can I buy London Pride bitter in an Oddbins off license?
Where can I buy a jug of Pimms at The Clissold Arms in Muswell Hill?
Where can I buy a pitcher of Miller Lite in Hooters?
Where do some people use the back of their fork to eat peas when using cutlery?
Where do you cut your food and then put the fork in your main hand when using flatware?
Switch worksheets and do the same, making sure that you start with the most difficult (as your partner has already seen them). Then ask about anything you don’t understand.
Student B
Read out a line from your worksheet and see if your partner can guess if it is about the UK (the underlined one) or about the USA. Don’t change the wording, as each line has both useful facts and useful language (British English or American English) to help with guessing. If their guess is right, they get two points. If they are not sure or don’t understand the hint, they can ask for the other hint in the same section and then guess which one is British and which is American. A correct guess after two hints gets one point. Take turns guessing if the other person’s statements are about the UK or USA until your teacher stops you.
Where are Doritos nacho chips from?
Where are fish and chips from a Harry Ramsden’s chippie from?
Where do people wash up after dinner with Fairy Liquid washing up liquid?
Where do people wash up before dinner with Bert’s Bees soap?
Where do people dip McVitie’s digestive biscuits in their tea?
Where do people eat biscuits with their Popeyes fried chicken?
Where is the fizzy drink Irn-Bru from?
Where is the soda Mountain Dew from?
Where are Lays salted potato chips from?
Where are Walkers ready salted crisps from?
Where are Cadbury Eclairs sweets from?
Where is M&Ms candy from?
Where is Fairy washing up liquid from?
Where is Palmolive dishwashing liquid from?
Where are Tesco frozen oven-ready chips from?
Where are Wendy’s French fries from?
Where might a Beefeater Grill bill come to twelve quid?
Where might a Denny’s family restaurant check come to twelve bucks?
Where can you buy Sainsbury’s tinned mince?
Where can you buy Trader Joe’s canned chopped beef?
Where can you buy a prawn cocktail starter in Fortnum and Mason?
Where can you buy Brew Pub Pretzels appetizers in Applebee’s?
Switch worksheets and do the same, making sure that you start with the most difficult (as your partner has already seen them). Then ask about anything you don’t understand.
Food and drink words with different meanings in British and American English
Try to remember or think of at least two different meanings for these words.
pudding
jelly
squash
chips
wash up
biscuit
Match the words above to the meanings below.
- cookie
- a kind of scone, eaten with the main course
- do the dishes
- clean your hands with soap (e.g. before eating)
- crisps
- French fries
- a kind of fruit cordial that is mixed with water before drinking
- a kind of vegetable
- a dessert, e.g. Jell-O
- a kind of jam
- similar to a creme brûlée
- a hot dessert, like the one served at Xmas
Use the worksheets above to help, then check as a class.
Different food and drink words in British and American English
Match the British words on the left with American ones with the same meanings on the right. … means that you need to use some words from the one on the left to complete the American expression on the right.
ice lolly appetizer
porridge candy
buffet car canned
off license check
jug chopped beef
cutlery dining…
fizzy drink dishwashing…
crisps flatware
sweets French fries
washing up liquid liquor store
chips oatmeal
bill pitcher
tinned … pop
mince potato chips
starter soda
Check above.
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