Food Vocabulary
Food Vocabulary
Food Vocabulary
A Fruit
pineapple peach strawberry bunch of grapes olives
B Vegetables
beans peas onion garlic carrot mushrooms
C Salad
A salad is usually a mixture of uncooked ingredients. In Britain it mainly has lettuce, as
well as tomato, cucumber, onion, and other things. We often put salad dressing (usually
oil and vinegar, or perhaps oil and lemon) on salad.
24.1 Write down one vegetable and fruit beginning with these letters.
vegetable fruit
1 the letter p peas
2 the letter g
3 the letter m
4 the letter s
5 the letter o
24.2 Find a word from each box where the underlined letters are pronounced the same.
24.3 Which is the odd one out in each group, and why?
1 pork veal salmon beef salmon is a fish, the others are meat
2 lettuce cabbage tomato cucumber
3 pork lamb beef crab
4 peach onion pepper courgette
5 crab broccoli mussels prawn
6 carrots chicken beans aubergine
24.4 Do you usually eat the skin (the outside) of these fruits? (Answer Yes, Sometimes or No.)
pineapple No peaches
melon pears
grapes lemon
Language help
We use the word sour to describe the taste of lemons (opp sweet), but usually bitter
to describe coffee that is strong and has a sharp unpleasant taste (opp smooth).
Strong, dark chocolate can also be described as bitter, but this is not always negative.
25.2 How do you pronounce the underlined letters? Use the index to help you.
chef Is it like shoe or chief? shoe oven Is it like love or lonely?
raw Is it like now or door? pie Is it like pea or lie?
sour Is it like more or hour? saucepan Is it like four or flower?
25.3 Cross out the wrong word in each sentence. Write the correct word at the end.
1 The paella was very tasteful. tasty
2 My brother is a very good cooker.
3 Don’t forget to heat up the fry pan before you add the aubergine.
4 This chocolate is very sour.
5 I’m afraid my mother has never been very good in cooking.
6 You can buy this ice cream in five different tastes.
25.4 Which words are being defined?
1 The flavour that something has in your mouth when you eat it. taste
2 A person who cooks food as their job.
3 Having a good taste.
4 The large piece of equipment in the kitchen for cooking food.
5 The word to describe the taste of lemons.
6 Not cooked.
7 Having a fantastic taste. . The opposite is
25.5 Explain what the person did, using the correct word.
1 I got the list of food and cooking instructions. You got the recipe .
2 I bought all the food I needed for the dish. You bought all the .
3 First I removed the skin of the potatoes. You the potatoes.
4 I cooked the potatoes in water. You the potatoes.
5 Then I cut the onions into small pieces. You the onions.
6 I cooked the onions in a frying pan. You the onions.
7 I put the potatoes together with the onion. You the potatoes
to the onion.
8 I put in some milk and moved it round in the pan. You put in milk and it.
9 Then I put a little in my mouth to see what it was like. You it.