ESL Food and Quantities Bingo Card Generator

About ESL Food and Quantities bingo

All 42 ESL Food and Quantities bingo words

Every entry from A bag of chips to Yogurt, grouped by first letter. Edit them in the generator above: drop A bowl of rice if it does not suit your group, or add your own.

• A: A bag of chips, A bar of chocolate 🍫, A bottle of water, A bowl of rice 🍚, A bowl of soup, A box of cereal, A bunch of bananas, A bunch of grapes 🍇, A can of beans, A carton of eggs, A carton of juice, A cup of tea 🍵, A glass of milk 🥛, A handful of nuts, A head of lettuce, A jar of honey 🍯, A loaf of bread 🍞, A mug of hot cocoa, A piece of cake 🍰, A pinch of salt, A plate of pasta, A scoop of ice cream 🍨, A slice of pizza 🍕, A spoonful of sugar, A stick of butter, Apple 🍎
• B: Breakfast
• C: Carrot 🥕, Cheese 🧀, Chicken 🍗
• D: Dinner
• F: Fish 🐟
• L: Lunch
• N: Noodles 🍜
• O: Onion 🧅, Orange 🍊
• P: Potato 🥔
• S: Salad 🥗, Sandwich 🥪, Snack
• T: Tomato 🍅
• Y: Yogurt

ESL Food and Quantities bingo at a glance

How long ESL Food and Quantities bingo lasts

150 shuffled call orders, played on the first 60 cards of this set. With 30 players the first line comes after a median 12 calls (about 2 minutes at one call every 10 seconds); the first blackout needs 38 calls (about 6 minutes).

How to host ESL Food and Quantities bingo

1. 1

   Print the ESL Food and Quantities cards

   Give each player one card; a free set prints up to 30, no two alike. Card 1 above starts with A head of lettuce, A bottle of water, A loaf of bread, A stick of butter and Cheese.

2. 2

   Print the caller sheet

   All 42 entries appear on it in shuffled order, opening with A piece of cake, A scoop of ice cream, A mug of hot cocoa, A cup of tea and Onion; tick each one as you read it out.

3. 3

   Call only the food word, such as “honey” or “lettuce”, and let players find the full phrase, so they have to remember that honey comes in a jar.

4. 4

   After someone marks “A carton of eggs” or “A bunch of bananas”, ask for the plural, “two cartons of eggs”, to practice where the plural ending goes.

5. 5

   Keep a real shopping bag at the front and pull out items like a cereal box or a can of beans as you call them, for a visual clue.

6. 6

   Call until someone shouts bingo

   With 30 cards, expect the first line near call 12 (Dinner in this set's order) and a blackout near call 38; check the winner's squares against your ticked list.

ESL Food and Quantities bingo variations

• ESL Food and Quantities variation

  Recipe bingo: the caller reads a simple recipe one step at a time, such as “add a pinch of salt and a stick of butter”, and players mark every quantity phrase they hear.

• Blackout round

  Card 1 needs all 24 squares, A head of lettuce to A plate of pasta; on average one card fills after 41.3 of the 42 calls (98% of the deck).

• Picture bingo for pre-readers

  Use 3x3 cards with the 22 entries that have a symbol, such as A loaf of bread, A slice of pizza and A bowl of rice.

First 15 calls of this ESL Food and Quantities set

Seed "esl-food" gives this order, the same one the caller sheet prints. With these calls, card 16 of the first 30 completes the diagonal from the top left (Noodles, Orange, A piece of cake and Sandwich) on call 10, and card 19 is the first full card on call 38.

Themes like ESL Food and Quantities bingo

Ranked by category, occasion and audience; none of them repeats an entry from this list, so pasting two into the Edit words box gives a longer game.