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

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SHOPPING
Words/Meaning and Summary

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.