Encourage your students to speak confidently while practising food vocabulary with these printable Food Fortune Tellers!

This resource includes six different paper fortune tellers (cootie catchers) designed to promote speaking, listening and conversation through engaging food-themed questions. Students work in pairs or small groups, asking and answering questions about their favourite foods, healthy eating, restaurants, foods from around the world and more.

Suitable for a wide range of classroom activities, these fortune tellers are ideal for reinforcing vocabulary while developing oral communication skills in an enjoyable, low-prep format.

This resource includes:

• Teacher instructions
• 6 different Food fortune tellers
• 1 blank fortune teller template for students to create their own questions
• 1 speaking recording sheet
• 1 language support page with sentence starters, useful expressions, conversation prompts and food vocabulary

Ideal for:

• ESL / EFL classrooms
• Primary English lessons
• Food vocabulary units
• Pair work
• Speaking centres
• Small group activities
• Conversation practice
• Oral language development
• Fast finishers
• No-prep speaking activities

Skills developed:

• Speaking
• Listening
• Asking and answering questions
• Food vocabulary
• Conversation skills
• Oral communication
• Speaking confidence

Suitable for upper primary ESL/EFL learners and adaptable to different ability levels.