Food Vocabulary Worksheet
Word tip (Taste it in your mind): Five taste words: sugar is sweet, a lemon is sour, sea water is salty, karela is bitter, chillies are spicy. Meals by time: breakfast in the morning, lunch at midday, dinner at night. Group foods: fruits, vegetables, drinks and sweets — the odd one out belongs to another group.
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- 1.What does “paneer” mean? (a) cooked lentils (b) sweet food made by bees (c) fresh Indian cheese (d) the morning meal
- 2.What does “juice” mean? (a) raw vegetables to eat (b) the meal at night (c) drink pressed from fruit (d) the morning meal
- 3.Fill the gap: Jalebi is a ___. (a) fruit (b) drink (c) vegetable (d) sweet
- 4.What does “salad” mean? (a) a big, grand meal (b) raw vegetables to eat (c) cooked lentils (d) flat round bread
- 5.Which word means “the meal at midday”? (a) snack (b) lunch (c) dessert (d) chapati
- 6.Which word is the odd one out? (a) cauliflower (b) spinach (c) onion (d) apple
- 7.What does “honey” mean? (a) drink pressed from fruit (b) sweet food made by bees (c) the meal at midday (d) sweet dish after a meal
- 8.Fill the gap: At the restaurant, we read the ___ to choose our food. (a) recipe (b) tiffin (c) salad (d) menu
- 9.Fill the gap: Sugar tastes ___. (a) sour (b) sweet (c) bitter (d) salty
- 10.Which word means “a packed lunch box”? (a) breakfast (b) paneer (c) pickle (d) tiffin
- 11.Fill the gap: Paneer is made from ___. (a) wheat (b) milk (c) rice (d) honey
- 12.What does “chapati” mean? (a) spiced fruit kept in oil (b) flat round bread (c) raw vegetables to eat (d) a block of brown sugar
- 13.Fill the gap: Mum put dal and rice in my ___ box for school. (a) tiffin (b) recipe (c) salad (d) menu
- 14.What does “menu” mean? (a) flat round bread (b) list of dishes to order (c) powder made from grain (d) fresh Indian cheese
- 15.Fill the gap: We eat ___ in the morning before school. (a) feast (b) breakfast (c) dinner (d) lunch
- 16.Fill the gap: Green chillies taste ___. (a) salty (b) sour (c) spicy (d) sweet
- 17.Fill the gap: Bees make sweet ___. (a) dal (b) curd (c) jaggery (d) honey
- 18.What does “dinner” mean? (a) a packed lunch box (b) fresh Indian cheese (c) the meal at night (d) sweet food made by bees
- 19.Fill the gap: We sprinkle ___ on food to make it salty. (a) salt (b) sugar (c) honey (d) jaggery
- 20.Which word means “a big, grand meal”? (a) feast (b) salad (c) dal (d) recipe
- 21.What does “dal” mean? (a) a block of brown sugar (b) a big, grand meal (c) melted, clear butter (d) cooked lentils
- 22.Which word is the odd one out? (a) mango (b) papaya (c) banana (d) ladoo
- 23.Fill the gap: We eat ___ at night before going to bed. (a) dinner (b) lunch (c) breakfast
- 24.Which word is the odd one out? (a) juice (b) milk (c) tea (d) barfi
- 25.Which word means “steps to cook a dish”? (a) jaggery (b) recipe (c) ghee (d) dessert
- 26.Which word means “small food between meals”? (a) honey (b) dinner (c) snack (d) paneer
- 27.What does “recipe” mean? (a) melted, clear butter (b) a block of brown sugar (c) list of dishes to order (d) steps to cook a dish
- 28.Which word means “spiced fruit kept in oil”? (a) juice (b) pickle (c) chapati (d) dinner
- 29.Which word is the odd one out? (a) milk (b) pineapple (c) water (d) juice
- 30.Which word is the odd one out? (a) grapes (b) mango (c) kheer (d) banana
- 31.Which word is the odd one out? (a) rasgulla (b) water (c) jalebi (d) barfi
- 32.Which word is the odd one out? (a) potato (b) spinach (c) brinjal (d) papaya
- 33.Fill the gap: We eat ___ at midday, at about one o’clock. (a) breakfast (b) dinner (c) lunch
- 34.What does “ghee” mean? (a) melted, clear butter (b) cooked lentils (c) raw vegetables to eat (d) small food between meals
- 35.Which word means “raw vegetables to eat”? (a) salad (b) dal (c) jaggery (d) lunch
- 36.Which word is the odd one out? (a) guava (b) mango (c) buttermilk (d) papaya
- 37.Fill the gap: A lemon tastes ___. (a) sour (b) salty (c) spicy (d) sweet
- 38.Fill the gap: We drink ___ when we are thirsty. (a) rice (b) chapati (c) bread (d) water
- 39.Which word means “flat round bread”? (a) dinner (b) curd (c) recipe (d) chapati
- 40.Fill the gap: A potato is a ___. (a) spice (b) fruit (c) drink (d) vegetable
Answer key
- fresh Indian cheese
- drink pressed from fruit
- sweet
- raw vegetables to eat
- lunch
- apple
- sweet food made by bees
- menu
- sweet
- tiffin
- milk
- flat round bread
- tiffin
- list of dishes to order
- breakfast
- spicy
- honey
- the meal at night
- salt
- feast
- cooked lentils
- ladoo
- dinner
- barfi
- recipe
- snack
- steps to cook a dish
- pickle
- pineapple
- kheer
- water
- papaya
- lunch
- melted, clear butter
- salad
- buttermilk
- sour
- water
- chapati
- vegetable
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