This cooking verbs bingo game for adult ESL students is print-n-go ready. This set covers 34 cooking action verbs, words your students need, with full-color photographs to make every term easy to remember.

Cooking vocabulary is practical vocabulary. Your adult ESL students are already in kitchens, following recipes, and trying to understand instructions on food packaging. Give them the words for what they're doing.

WHAT'S INSIDE:

✅ 40 unique cooking verbs vocabulary bingo cards featuring full-color photographs of 34 vocabulary terms

✅ 40 unique cooking verbs vocabulary bingo cards featuring black & white clipart of the same 34 vocabulary terms

✅ 34 calling cards with the cooking verb, matching image, and a clue. (color and black & white versions included)

This PDF download is print and go ready with no preheating required.

HOW TO USE THIS GAME

Print and cut the calling cards before class. Call out each cooking verb (or the clue for a bigger challenge) and give students time to find and cover the matching image on their card. First to complete a row, column, or diagonal wins. With 34 vocabulary terms on the calling cards, blackout bingo is also an option: first to cover every square on the board wins.

Small prizes go a long way. Adults get surprisingly competitive when there's something on the line, even if it's just 5 bonus points on a quiz, a mini vocabulary certificate with over-the-top flowery language attesting to their game prowess, or a small snack.

WHY YOU'LL LOVE THIS VOCABULARY BINGO GAME

The real photographs make terms like chop, whisk, and simmer immediately recognizable, so students spend their energy on vocabulary, not on decoding abstract clipart. The ink-friendly black & white clipart version works great if you can't see yourself using up all your color ink on a game. Forty cards for each version means a full class gets a unique board, and no one is stuck waiting around.

THIS WAS CREATED FOR YOUR ADULT ESL STUDENTS

Your adult ESL students are already cooking. They're reading recipes, watching cooking videos, and trying to follow instructions at work or at home. This game puts important cooking words in front of them in a low-pressure, high-repetition format that glues the words into their memory.

A NOTE ABOUT THE CLIPART:

The clipart in this resource was created using AI. Although I prefer human-created images, I simply couldn't find clipart for many of the verbs, and AI made it possible to illustrate all of them clearly and consistently. The goal is always to provide useful, clear visuals that support your students. The photos are all real photos obtained from the public domain.