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UNIT 3

Food

Chapter 7

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The Food we Eat


Let us read

school

Note to the teacher
  • Encourage the children to share their food with each other whenever possible.
  • Discuss the concept of ‘sharing’ in the context of mid–day meal.
  • Encourage the children to express gratitude and respect for food and for the people who provide it.
  • Discuss with children the type of food they eat. Let them say what other things they eat at home.
  • Talk to the children about the diversity of culture and food in our country.

school

Sight words
from for them their they has
she have

New words

have thank you share lunch
sick fruits today smiling

Answer the questions

1. Where do you sit when you have lunch at school?
2. How do you share your food with your friends?
3. When you were hungry, did anyone share food with you?

Let us read

A. Think of words for the pictures and read aloud

We eat fruitsand vegetables which farmers grow.
Some farmers keep honey
We get honey from bee
Some veggies keep cows
We get milk from cows.
We make curds and butter from the milk.
We should say ‘thank you’ to cows

Note to the teacher
  • Help children realise that farmers work hard to give us many kinds of things to eat.
  • Reinforce that we should not waste food.

Let us speak

food

(a) Name the food items you see in the picture.
(b) Which is your favourite sweet?
(c) Who cooks food at home?
(d) Do you pick up your plate after a meal?

B. Match the food item to its shape

chocopie square
bread triangle
food circle

Let us draw

1. Say the names of the special dishes you eat at home.

Draw and colour them. See what others have drawn. draw

Let us speak

Fun with Words


A. Listen to the following words that your teacher will read out. Notice that they have only one syllable.

Say the word and clap once.

man food cat
hut eat mat
go come sit

B. Now say these words.

These words have two syllables. Say each word aloud and clap for every syllable of the word.

farmer far mer
carrot car rot
market mar ket
brinjal brin jal
mango man go
breakfast break fast
dinner din ner

2. Match the following images to the sentences.

purple cap This cow is brown.
cow These are four oranges.
plate This is a purple cap.
jeep This is my lunch.
four oranges This is a green jeep.

Let us do

Riddles


1. I am a fruit. My name is my colour.
Who am I?

Answer: ________________________

2. I am hard and brown on the outside.
Soft and white inside.
Who am I?

Answer: ________________________

3. I am a vegetable. I am pink in colour.
I may also be white in colour.
If you cut me, I make you cry.
Who am I?

Answer: ________________________

4. I am a fruit. I come in green or purple.
I come in a bunch.
Who am I?

Answer: ________________________

tree

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