TEACHER’S NOTES

ESL / EFL RESOURCES Containers and Amounts

Activity Type Introduction

Reading, matching and This useful worksheet activity helps you to teach your students
writing activity about containers and amounts that go with food and drink items.

Procedure
Language Focus
Give each student a copy of the worksheet.
Containers and amounts
Tell the students to complete the food and drink items with the
container and amount words from the box on the worksheet.
Aim
To match containers and When the students have finished, check the answers with the
amounts with food and class.
drink items.
Answer key

Exercise A
Preparation
Make one copy of the a piece of cake a carton of milk
worksheet for each a glass of champagne a tube of toothpaste
student. a box of chocolates a slice of bread
a bottle of beer a can of coke
a jar of jam a packet of potato chips
Level a bowl of cereal a bunch of grapes

Elementary After that, students complete container and amount phrases with
the food and drink vocabulary from the box.

Time Explain that the words can be used more than once and that
several items may have more than one correct answer.
15 minutes
Finally, review the students' answers as a class.

Answer key

Exercise B

a packet of sugar, biscuits, rice

a slice of ham, cake, cheese, meat
a bottle of water, orange juice, coke
a bowl of sugar, fruit, strawberries, salad
a piece of cake, cheese, meat
a glass of water, orange juice, coke
a can of coke, orange juice
a carton of yoghurt, orange juice
a jar of honey, marmalade
a bunch of bananas
a tube of tomato paste
a box of crackers

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 FOOD AND DRINK

ESL / EFL RESOURCES Containers and Amounts

A. Complete the food and drink items with the container and amount words from the box.

carton  box  glass  can  slice  bunch   piece   jar  bowl  packet  tube   bottle

a _________ of cake a _________ of champagne a _________ of chocolates

a _________ of beer a _________ of jam a _________ of cereal

a _________ of milk a _________ of toothpaste a _________ of bread

a _________ of coke a _________ of potato chips a _________ of grapes

B. Complete the container and amount phrases with the words from the box.

crackers   fruit   sugar   strawberries   coke   yoghurt   ham   salad   tomato paste
honey   biscuits   water   orange juice cheese   bananas marmalade   cake   rice   meat

a packet of a slice of a bottle of

a bowl of a piece of a glass of

a carton of a jar of a can of

a tube of a box of a bunch of

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