What is an adjective? An adjective is a word that describes a person, place, or thing In the boxes below are many adjectives you can use to describe the touch, shape, color and taste of different foods. Include one adjective from each box to describe each type of food. Can you also come up with suggestions of your own for describing the many types of food? Include one of your own descriptive words. Touch Shape Color Taste Soft Greasy Crunchy Crispy Mushy Sticky Melted Slimy Hard Spongy Round Square Straight Triangular Oval Sleek Blobby Flat Crooked Wavy Pink Red Orange Black Yellow Blue Dark Green Purple White Gray Brown Sweet Salty Bitter Flavorful Sour Spicy Juicy Fresh Tasteless Mild Hot Creamy
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Nosapo Write the number in the circle aside each food that matches the given word in the list. Next to each item of food write: a an or some 1. egg 2. milk 3. bread 4. orange 5. strawberry 6. chili pepper 7. olives 8. chicken
Answer the questions using the words in the box below, and when you can explain why, how, or when, please do. For example: 1. How often do you eat chocolate? I eat chocolate every day, because I love chocolate. Chocolate is my favorite food. Never Once a month All the time Usually Twice a month Always Sometimes Hardly Not ever Once a week Often Rarely 1. How often do you eat fish? 2. How often do you drink milk 3. How often do you watch TV? 4. How often do you ride a bike?
5. How often do you go swimming? 6. How often do you drink tea? 7. How often do you drink coffee? 8. How often do you cook? 9. How often do you bake? 10. How often do you go for a walk? 11. How often do you drink water? 12. How often do you rest?
Write about a meal. Create a descriptive story about any food that you eat, cook, or any food that you have a memory of. Use at least 7 descriptive words to create one of the following: A story A poem A recipe Descriptive sentences Use the list of descriptive words to help you create this piece of writing, but also please try to think of your own words that are special to the food that you choose. The objective is to: Exercise creative writing Use new vocabulary If you are up for an extra challenge: Do not use the name of the meal or food in your story. The challenge is to describe it so well the reader will be able to guess what it is.
Descriptive Words for Food and Taste Acidic Bitter Bittersweet Bland Burnt Buttery Chalky Cheesy Chewy Chocolaty Citrusy Creamy Crispy Crumbly Crunchy Crusty Doughy Dry Earthy Fatty Fermented Fiery Fishy Fizzy Flakey Flat Flavorful Fresh Fried Fruity Garlicky Gelatinous Gingery Glazed Grainy Greasy Gooey Gritty Hearty Heavy Herbal Hot Icy Juicy Lean Light Lemony Mashed Meaty Mild Minty Moist Mushy Nutty Oily Oniony Overripe Pasty Peppery Pickled Plain Powdery Raw Refreshing Rich Ripe
Roasted Salty Sautéed Savory Seared Seasoned Sharp Silky Slimy Smokey Smothered Smooth Soggy Soupy Sour Spicy Spongy Stale Sticky Stale Stringy Strong Sugary Sweet Sweet-and-sour Syrupy Tangy Tart Tasteless Tender Toasted Tough Unflavored Unseasoned Velvety Vinegary Watery Whipped Zesty Zingy Amazing Appealing Appetizing Delectable Delicious Delightful Divine Enjoyable Enticing Excellent Exquisite Extraordinary Fantastic Heavenly Lip Smacking Luscious Marvelous Mouthwatering Pleasant Pleasing Satisfying Scrumptious Superb Tasty Terrific Wonderful Yummy