General Kitchen & Cooking
1. What can you find in your kitchen?
2. Do you like cooking? Why or why not?
3. How often do you cook at home?
4. Who cooks in your family?
5. What is your favorite thing to cook?
🧑🍳 Kitchen Verbs in Use
6. What do you usually boil?
7. What do you need to chop when making a salad?
8. Can you name three things you can fry?
9. Do you know how to bake a cake?
10.What do we use to mix ingredients?
🥦 Ingredients
11.What ingredients do you need to make a sandwich?
12.What do you need to make a fruit salad?
13.Do you prefer fresh or frozen vegetables? Why?
14.What spices do you like to use in your food?
15.What are some ingredients in your favorite soup?
🧠 Challenging Questions (for deeper thinking)
1. If you could only have five ingredients in your kitchen, what would
you choose and why?
2. Imagine you are cooking for someone who hates vegetables. How
would you make a healthy meal they might enjoy?
3. What do you think is more important: taste or health? Why?
4. If you had to cook for 10 people, what would you make and how
would you plan it?
5. You only have 15 minutes to cook something. What can you
prepare? What steps would you take first?
6. Which job is harder: being a chef or a waiter? Why do you think
so?
7. If you opened a small restaurant, what kind of food would you
serve? What would be your special dish?
8. You want to teach a child how to make a sandwich. What steps
would you explain? How would you make it fun?
9. Imagine you are on a cooking show. What would you cook to
impress the judges?
10.You find a strange ingredient in your fridge. How would you decide
what to do with it?
11.How would you make a cake without sugar? What could you use
instead?
12.Why do people like cooking shows? What can we learn from them?
13.Is it better to cook with a recipe or without one? Why?
14.What’s more important in a kitchen: good tools or good
ingredients? Why?
15.You want to eat something sweet, but you only have bread, fruit,
and yogurt. What can you make?
16.What are three kitchen rules that everyone should follow? Why?
17.If you could learn to cook one famous dish from another country,
what would it be and why?
18.You are making a recipe but you don’t have one ingredient. What
do you do?
19.Why do people enjoy cooking together with friends or family?
20.Can cooking be a way to relax? Why or why not?
📖 Recipes & Instructions
16.Can you describe how to make tea or coffee?
17.How do you make your favorite breakfast?
18.What is a simple recipe you know?
19.Can you give instructions for making pasta?
20.What is the first step when making a pizza?
🍰 Food & Preferences
21.Do you prefer sweet or salty food?
22.What do you usually eat for dinner?
23.Do you like trying new food from other countries?
24.What is a traditional dish in your country?
25.What is the most difficult thing you’ve cooked?
