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