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.Fill the gap: Mum put dal and rice in my ___ box for school. (a) menu (b) recipe (c) salad (d) tiffin
- 2.Which word is the odd one out? (a) spinach (b) cauliflower (c) banana (d) cabbage
- 3.Which word means “the morning meal”? (a) menu (b) paneer (c) chapati (d) breakfast
- 4.Which word means “milk set overnight”? (a) chapati (b) lunch (c) curd (d) recipe
- 5.Which word means “melted, clear butter”? (a) breakfast (b) recipe (c) pickle (d) ghee
- 6.Which word means “sweet dish after a meal”? (a) tiffin (b) snack (c) dessert (d) juice
- 7.Fill the gap: Karela tastes ___. (a) sour (b) salty (c) bitter (d) sweet
- 8.Which word is the odd one out? (a) grapes (b) apple (c) mango (d) milk
- 9.Which word means “a packed lunch box”? (a) paneer (b) flour (c) breakfast (d) tiffin
- 10.Fill the gap: Bees make sweet ___. (a) jaggery (b) curd (c) honey (d) dal
- 11.Fill the gap: We eat ___ at midday, at about one o’clock. (a) breakfast (b) dinner (c) lunch
- 12.Which word is the odd one out? (a) barfi (b) gulab jamun (c) jalebi (d) water
- 13.Fill the gap: Mum rolls out dough and cooks a ___ on the tawa. (a) curd (b) chapati (c) juice (d) honey
- 14.Which word means “steps to cook a dish”? (a) honey (b) recipe (c) pickle (d) lunch
- 15.What does “tiffin” mean? (a) a packed lunch box (b) flat round bread (c) cooked lentils (d) a block of brown sugar
- 16.Which word means “drink pressed from fruit”? (a) juice (b) jaggery (c) flour (d) curd
- 17.Fill the gap: Paneer is made from ___. (a) wheat (b) milk (c) honey (d) rice
- 18.Fill the gap: Green chillies taste ___. (a) sour (b) sweet (c) salty (d) spicy
- 19.What does “ghee” mean? (a) drink pressed from fruit (b) cooked lentils (c) spiced fruit kept in oil (d) melted, clear butter
- 20.Which word is the odd one out? (a) potato (b) cabbage (c) gulab jamun (d) spinach
- 21.Fill the gap: We drink ___ when we are thirsty. (a) chapati (b) water (c) bread (d) rice
- 22.What does “juice” mean? (a) steps to cook a dish (b) sweet dish after a meal (c) spiced fruit kept in oil (d) drink pressed from fruit
- 23.What does “pickle” mean? (a) powder made from grain (b) fresh Indian cheese (c) spiced fruit kept in oil (d) raw vegetables to eat
- 24.Fill the gap: Lassi is a ___. (a) fruit (b) drink (c) snack (d) vegetable
- 25.What does “curd” mean? (a) small food between meals (b) fresh Indian cheese (c) milk set overnight (d) list of dishes to order
- 26.What does “dessert” mean? (a) sweet dish after a meal (b) drink pressed from fruit (c) cooked lentils (d) small food between meals
- 27.What does “menu” mean? (a) small food between meals (b) milk set overnight (c) the meal at midday (d) list of dishes to order
- 28.Fill the gap: At the restaurant, we read the ___ to choose our food. (a) salad (b) recipe (c) tiffin (d) menu
- 29.What does “breakfast” mean? (a) the morning meal (b) flat round bread (c) a big, grand meal (d) a packed lunch box
- 30.What does “chapati” mean? (a) list of dishes to order (b) milk set overnight (c) cooked lentils (d) flat round bread
- 31.Fill the gap: Sea water tastes ___. (a) sour (b) spicy (c) sweet (d) salty
- 32.Which word is the odd one out? (a) peas (b) onion (c) brinjal (d) juice
- 33.Which word is the odd one out? (a) cauliflower (b) cabbage (c) onion (d) ladoo
- 34.Which word is the odd one out? (a) spinach (b) papaya (c) cauliflower (d) onion
- 35.What does “lunch” mean? (a) flat round bread (b) drink pressed from fruit (c) the meal at midday (d) steps to cook a dish
- 36.What does “jaggery” mean? (a) a block of brown sugar (b) melted, clear butter (c) drink pressed from fruit (d) the meal at midday
- 37.Which word means “the meal at midday”? (a) flour (b) chapati (c) dinner (d) lunch
- 38.What does “dal” mean? (a) the meal at midday (b) drink pressed from fruit (c) cooked lentils (d) the morning meal
- 39.What does “flour” mean? (a) list of dishes to order (b) raw vegetables to eat (c) the meal at night (d) powder made from grain
- 40.Which word means “fresh Indian cheese”? (a) paneer (b) dal (c) honey (d) flour
Answer key
- tiffin
- banana
- breakfast
- curd
- ghee
- dessert
- bitter
- milk
- tiffin
- honey
- lunch
- water
- chapati
- recipe
- a packed lunch box
- juice
- milk
- spicy
- melted, clear butter
- gulab jamun
- water
- drink pressed from fruit
- spiced fruit kept in oil
- drink
- milk set overnight
- sweet dish after a meal
- list of dishes to order
- menu
- the morning meal
- flat round bread
- salty
- juice
- ladoo
- papaya
- the meal at midday
- a block of brown sugar
- lunch
- cooked lentils
- powder made from grain
- paneer
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