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