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