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