This chocolate vocabulary lesson will help you use the words chocolate bar, sweet, dark chocolate, plain chocolate, chew, suck, wrapper, cocoa and confectionery, correctly.
(a) chocolate bar noun a block of chocolate wrapped and sold
- I was so hungry that I could have eaten the whole bar – so I did.
(a) sweet noun a small piece of food made with sugar
- I bought this bag of sweets yesterday.
(–) dark chocolate uncountable noun dark, bitter, chocolate without added milk
- Dark chocolate is a taste of luxury.
(–) plain chocolate uncountable noun another name for dark chocolate
- I love eating plain chocolate with a glass of Guinness.
chew verb to bite something continuously
- You should chew your food before trying to swallow it.
suck verb to put something in your mouth and move your tongue against it to taste its flavour
- She was sucking very noisily trying to annoy me – it was working.
(a) wrapper noun a piece of paper or plastic that is wrapped around something that you buy
- Don’t throw that wrapper on the floor – put it in the bin.
(–) cocoa noun a dark brown powder used to make chocolate and add a chocolate flavour to food and drink
- The recipe says I should use 100g of cocoa.
(–) confectionery uncountable noun the collective noun for sweets and chocolates
- I was in the confectionery shop for nearly an hour choosing her present.
Now watch the video lesson and then do the chocolate vocabulary exercise