We Don’t Need This

  • Post category:Reading

Topic: Food

Mode: Interpretive

Level: Novice

Students will read a sentence about a shopper and then decide which item on the list they do NOT need.

Components of this activity: A worksheet

Instructions to the teacher

Make a worksheet like this one for your class. Expand and edit the activity as necessary for your context and purposes. Below, the correct answers appear in bold.

Instructions to students

Based on the information about the shopper, choose the item the person does NOT need to buy.

  1. He drinks sweet coffee every morning. 
  • coffee beans   
  • milk
  • orange juice   
  • sugar
  1. Each day she eats a sandwich for lunch in her office. 
  • sandwich bags
  • cheese slices   
  • pasta   
  • wheat bread
  1. She makes lunches for her children to take to school.
  • napkins
  • plastic container   
  • packaged pudding
  • steak
  1. He likes spicy food.
  • peppers
  • curry   
  • hot sauce   
  • apples
  1. His favorite food is meat.
  • grapes
  • chicken
  • beef   
  • turkey