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