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Wednesday 22 April 2020

English X - Chapter No.13 - Words/Meaning and Summary

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Words / Meaning



S.No. Words Meanings
 1. Beef Meat of a cow 
 2. Butcher Dealer in meat
 3. Cabbage A kind of green vegetable
 4. Calves Young ones of a cow
 5. Carton A cardboard box, usually large
 6. Cauliflower A green vegetable with a white top
 7. Chilies Dried pod of capsicum
 8. Choked blocked
 9. Dressed Slaughtered, Ready to cook
 10. Freezer A chilled unit
 11. Gulped Swallowed very quickly
 12. Grocer Dealer in domestic stores
 13. Hire Employ a person on wages
 14. Kilogram 1000 grams
 15. Kilometer 1000 meters
 16. Live Undressed (Chicken)
 17. Meter 100 centimetre
 18 Mutton Meat of goats and sheep
 19. Onion A swollen edible bulb used as a vegetable
 20. Potato A starchy plant tuber, used as a vegetable
 21. Poultry Birds kept for their meat and eggs
 22. Provisions Household goods
 23. Spices Strongly favoured seeds
 24. Spinach A green leaf vegetable
 25. Turnip A round root with white or cream flesh which is used as a vegetable 





Short note Or Summary on Shopping


While Najma and Ajmal were having their breakfast. Mother asked them to be ready to go with her for shopping. Children were surprised to hear this, because they had never been to the market before. The Mother explained them that in the past all the purchases were made by their father. Now he was away from home and they had run short of groceries and other provisions. So she wants to make all purchases.They went to market in a taxi. They first visited mutton market. The mother explained the difference between beef and mutton. She told them that beef was the flesh of cows and calves while mutton was the flesh of goats and sheep. She bought one kilo of leg and one kilo of minced meat there. After it they went to fruit and vegetable market and bought a kilo of tomatoes, five kilos of onions, two kilos of potatoes, one kilo each of cabbage, cauliflower, turnips, green peas and two kilos of spinach and five kilos of carrots. After buying vegetables they bought bananas and apples. After it came the turn of spices and groceries. They bought one kilo of salt, a quarter of red chilies, a quarter of black pepper and other spices. They bought two carrots of soap flakes, three bars of washing soap, four cakes of toilet soap, a kilo bag of porridge, a jar of honey, one bottle each of tomato sauce and vinegar and two packets of biscuits. At the end they bought one kilo of dressed chicken and two dozens of eggs and returned home. Children enjoyed the shopping very much.

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