Market Items: Food Words

🎯 What You'll Learn

You will learn the English words for foods you see and eat every day in Nigeria.

🌟 Let's Start

Chidi's favourite food is jollof rice with fried plantain! His sister Ngozi loves pounded yam with egusi soup. Nigeria has so many delicious foods. Let us learn their names in English.

📚 New Concept

Food words:

• Rice — small white grains, used in jollof rice and fried rice
• Yam — a large root vegetable, you can boil, fry, or pound it
• Plantain — looks like a big banana, you fry or boil it
• Beans — small seeds you cook and eat, very healthy
• Fish — comes from rivers and the sea
• Chicken — a bird you can cook and eat
• Tomato — a red fruit used to make stew
• Pepper — makes food spicy and hot

Using food words in sentences:

• "We eat rice and beans for lunch."
• "Mother fried the plantain until it was golden."
• "The stew has tomato, pepper, and fish in it."

🎮 Let's Practice

1. Name two foods you eat that come from plants.
2. What food makes stew spicy?
3. Fill in the blank: "Bola eats ___ rice with fried ___."

Click to see answers

1. Foods from plants include: rice, yam, plantain, beans, tomato, pepper (any two are correct).
2. Pepper makes stew spicy.
3. "Bola eats jollof rice with fried plantain." (or other correct food words)

💡 Remember

Nigeria has many wonderful foods — rice, yam, plantain, beans, fish, chicken, tomato, and pepper. Knowing food words in English helps you everywhere!