Name: ________________

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words in the passage. Then write them next to the correct meaning.

At Advaita Acharya's House 1

At the House of Advaita Acharya.
All the food was divided into three parts. One part was placed on a metal plate for offering to Lord Krishna. The other two parts were placed on banana leaves. The leaves were taken from a banana tree that held not less than thirty- two bunches of bananas. The two plates were filled very nicely with so many kinds of food.
The cooked rice was a stack of very fine grains nicely cooked, and in the middle was ghee from the milk of cows. All around the stack of rice were pots made of the skins of banana trees, and in these pots were different kinds of vegetables and mung dhal.
Some of the vegetables  which were cooked were patolas, squash, manakachu and a salad made with pieces of ginger and different types of spinach.
There was shukhta, which is bitter melon mixed with all kinds of vegetables. There were five different kinds of shukhtas. Amongst the various vegetables were newly grown leaves of nimba trees fried with eggplant. The fruit known as patola was fried with phulabadi, a kind of dhal which is first mashed and then dried in the sun.

	1	skin	The outside part of a banana.

	2	____	A type of butter made from cow's milk.

	3	______	The type of food that rice is.

	4	______	A yellow fruit.

	5	_____	A pile of.

	6	_____	An uncooked food made of different vegetables.

	7	______	Bittermelon mixed with vegetables.

	8	_________	A type of dhal.

	9	_____	The type of plate used for Krishna's offering.

	10	_______	A green, leafy vegetable.

Name: ________________

Look at the meanings below. Can you find the words? Draw a circle around the
words in the passage. Then write them next to the correct meaning.

At Advaita Acharya's House 1 (Teacher's copy)

At the House of Advaita Acharya.
All the food was divided into three parts. One part was placed on a metal plate for offering to Lord Krishna. The other two parts were placed on banana leaves. The leaves were taken from a banana tree that held not less than thirty- two bunches of bananas. The two plates were filled very nicely with so many kinds of food.
The cooked rice was a stack of very fine grains nicely cooked, and in the middle was ghee from the milk of cows. All around the stack of rice were pots made of the skins of banana trees, and in these pots were different kinds of vegetables and mung dhal.
Some of the vegetables  which were cooked were patolas, squash, manakachu and a salad made with pieces of ginger and different types of spinach.
There was shukhta, which is bitter melon mixed with all kinds of vegetables. There were five different kinds of shukhtas. Amongst the various vegetables were newly grown leaves of nimba trees fried with eggplant. The fruit known as patola was fried with phulabadi, a kind of dhal which is first mashed and then dried in the sun.

	1	skin	The outside part of a banana.

	2	ghee	A type of butter made from cow's milk.

	3	grains	The type of food that rice is.

	4	banana	A yellow fruit.

	5	stack	A pile of.

	6	salad	An uncooked food made of different vegetables.

	7	shukta	Bittermelon mixed with vegetables.

	8	phulabadi	A type of dhal.

	9	metal	The type of plate used for Krishna's offering.

	10	spinach	A green, leafy vegetable.