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