Yummy Words Everyday: Food and Eating Vocabulary for Grade 1

This Grade 1 English worksheet focuses on building essential vocabulary related to food, eating habits, cooking items, food actions, and taste words. Designed especially for young learners, the activities help children recognize, understand, and correctly use common food-related words in simple sentences.

Through colourful, engaging, and age-appropriate multiple-choice questions, students practice identifying fruits and vegetables, everyday food items, healthy foods, kitchen tools, food actions, and describing words for taste. Each exercise supports early reading and word recognition skills while strengthening sentence comprehension.

The worksheet includes six structured exercises that gradually expand a child’s food and eating vocabulary. Learners begin by choosing the correct fruit or vegetable, move on to basic food items and healthy food choices, identify cooking utensils, select correct food actions, and finally describe tastes like sweet, sour, salty, spicy, and bland.

Why Food and Eating Vocabulary Matters in Early Learning?

Food-related vocabulary is an important foundation for Grade 1 learners because:
1. Children talk about food in daily life and school conversations.
2. It improves word recognition and sentence understanding.
3. It supports reading comprehension using familiar contexts.
4. It helps children express choices, likes, and habits clearly.

What’s Inside This Worksheet?

This worksheet includes six fun-filled vocabulary-building activities:

🍎 Exercise 1 – Fruits and Vegetables  
Students choose the correct fruit or vegetable to complete simple sentences.

🥪 Exercise 2 – Simple Food Words  
Students identify everyday food items that logically fit each sentence.

🥗 Exercise 3 – Healthy Foods  
Students select healthy food options, building awareness of good eating habits.

🍳 Exercise 4 – Cooking Items  
Students match food-related actions with the correct kitchen tools.

🥄 Exercise 5 – Food Actions  
Students choose correct action words such as stir, peel, drink, and serve.

😋 Exercise 6 – Taste Words  
Students identify taste-based describing words like sweet, sour, salty, spicy, and bland.

🔹 Answer Key (For Parents & Educators)

Exercise 1 – Fruits and Vegetables  
1. banana  
2. cherry  
3. orange  
4. cucumber  
5. potato  
6. ginger  
7. carrot  
8. grapes  
9. onion  
10. mint  

Exercise 2 – Simple Food Words  
1. milk  
2. roti  
3. soup  
4. dosa  
5. egg  
6. milk  
7. noodles  
8. bread  
9. lentils  
10. snack  

Exercise 3 – Healthy Foods  
1. salad  
2. juice  
3. fruits  
4. eggs  
5. nuts  
6. spinach  
7. sprouts  
8. peanuts  
9. vegetables  
10. milk  

Exercise 4 – Cooking Items  
1. kettle  
2. spatula  
3. spoon  
4. knife  
5. pot  
6. kettle  
7. strainer  
8. rolling pin  
9. knife  
10. bowl  

Exercise 5 – Food Actions  
1. stir  
2. squeeze  
3. slice  
4. boil  
5. knead  
6. drink  
7. toast  
8. peel  
9. whisk  
10. serve  

Exercise 6 – Taste Words  
1. sweet  
2. sour  
3. salty  
4. bitter  
5. tangy  
6. spicy  
7. bland  
8. sour  
9. bitter  
10. tangy                                                                                
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