Grade 5-6: Vocabulary Lesson for Friday, Week 8

This week's theme is: Food

Word List 8

1. edible: can be eaten
2. aroma: an odor or smell
3. banquet: a formal dinner for many people
4. beverage: a liquid for drinking, but not water
5. bland: having little taste, dull
6. preserve: to prevent food from spoiling
7. artificial: made by man , not natural

Friday Activities

1. Click Flashcards - Time for Kids Create your own flash cards. When you're done you can copy the web address and use the flash cards again. Your flash cards will expire after two weeks.
2. Click on the Read the Words website.
3. Type in sentences or a story using your vocabulary words, and then listen to the avatar read it back to you. We suggest that you create a free user account and save these files to playback at a later time.

Other Help

If you need more information on your words, click on the link to use a on-line dictionary.

Use the daily activities to help you remember words that you learn each week. It is much easier to remember what the words mean if you do something with them and use them frequently in talking with your parents, family and friends.

Sample sentences:

The cake she baked was hardly edible.
Some experiments in the kitchen turn out not to be edible.

The pie had a pleasing aroma.
The aroma of cookies filled the house.

We have a banquet to honor my mother.
I did not like the food at the banquet.

A cold beverage helps keep me cool on a hot day.
You should not drink any caffeinated beverage 2 hours before going to sleep.

The vegetables were very bland.
I would rather have bland food than spicy food.

You can preserve food by keeping it cool in a refrigerator.
Many cookies have ingredients in them to preserve the freshness.

A lot of beverages have artificial flavoring.
Some cereals have artificial colors added in to make the product more attractive for children.

 
 

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