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Taste words
Mridang: Unit 3, Chapter 2
GoalSay if food is sweet, sour, salty, hot or cold.
New words
sweet · tastes like sugarsour · tastes like a lemonsalty · tastes like salthot · very warmcold · not warm at all
Explanation
We taste with our tongue. A sweet is sweet. A lemon is sour. Salt is salty. Soup is hot. Ice cream is cold. Which taste do you like best?
Worked examples
Ibrahim
Is a mango sweet or sour?
Mary
It is sweet.
Ibrahim
I like sweet food. Do you?
Mary
I like sour food!
We taste with our tongue.
Say: Tea is hot. A cold glass of water is nice on a hot day.
Class activity
Taste game. With a grown-up, taste a raisin, a salty biscuit and a drop of lemon juice. Say sweet, salty or sour. Do not taste anything a grown-up has not given you.
Practice
1
Is honey sweet or sour?
Sweet.
2
What do we taste with?
Our tongue.
3
Say the missing word: Tea in a cup is ___ . (hot / cold)
Hot.
4
Listen. Which taste?
…
Sweet.
5
Writing: copy ‘sweet and sour’.
sweet and sour