🇬🇧 English Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle

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CEFR A1 Breakfast Foods

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➡ Across 15 Words

1. Past tense of cook: My dad ___ eggs for breakfast
4. A hot drink made from leaves, often with milk
6. A crispy breakfast cake with a grid pattern
11. A flat dish used to hold eggs or pancakes
13. A long yellow fruit, often sliced on cereal
17. Past tense of taste: He ___ the honey and smiled
18. A small tube of meat, often eaten with eggs
19. A thick, creamy food made from milk, often with fruit
20. A cold machine where you keep milk and juice
21. A breakfast food made from grains, eaten with milk
23. A yellow spread made from cream, put on toast
26. Past tense of drink: She ___ a cup of tea this morning
27. A tool with a small bowl at the end, used to eat cereal
28. A drink made from fruit, often orange, for breakfast
29. Past tense of fry: We ___ bacon in the pan

⬇ Down 15 Words

2. A container used to boil water for tea
3. A hot, dark drink made from beans, drunk in the morning
5. To put butter or jam on bread
7. Past tense of boil: She ___ water for tea
8. A machine that makes bread brown and crispy
9. A flat, round cake cooked in a pan, eaten with syrup
10. A sweet, sticky food made by bees, put in tea
12. Bread that is heated until it is brown and crispy
14. To put food in your mouth, like cereal or eggs
15. Past tense of pour: He ___ milk on his cereal
16. Sweet natural food like bananas or berries, eaten at breakfast
22. Conjunction: I like toast ___ jam
24. A common breakfast food that comes from a chicken
25. Thin slices of salted meat from a pig, fried for breakfast
27. Past tense of slice: He ___ a banana for his cereal

📚 Study Guide: CEFR A1 (Beginner) Vocabulary Focus

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