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