What do you call those kindergarten lunch bags with the three bowls inside?
What do you call the shelves people put their shoes into before entering a class,etc.?
Lunch bag with three bowls inside.
Shoe shelves.
Bowl bags
Shoe shelves/racks
Perhaps you could consider “lunch kit” as is the case in the US with the set of a lunchbox, thermos container and now I guess other stuff inside. It might sound a bit more elegant than “bowl bag” (not that there’s anything wrong with that, mind you!)
And you could even use “shoe cabinet” if you wanted to, although a cabinet usually has a door on it, and these things often don’t.
This is a great teaching moment to reinforce the use of the relative clause as a way of expressing words they don’t know, though. How about “the place WHERE we put our shoes”, “the bag IN WHICH we carry our lunches” and so on? Circumlocution is a very valuable language skill (I’m serious here!)
Sounds like a lunch bag and cubbyholes, respectively, from an NZ perspective at least.
‘Lunch kit’ sounds best to me, and ‘shoe cabinet’ is fairly standard (probably literal translation), but I’d just use ‘shelf’ if you’re worried it doesn’t have a door. ‘Shoe shelf’ sounds too clumsy.
When ‘creating’ English words for things that we don’t really have words for, I always try and keep it simple. Avoiud clumsy sounding phrases. What is the point in teaching something that sounds stupid, and noone in the English-speaking world would ever say?
Brian
How about shoe rack?? I think that shoe shelf would be the most correct though, it is a shelf that you put your shoes on after all.