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Question
Find out which spices are used in your house for cooking. Make a list and look at your friends' lists too.
Solution
- Pepper, turmeric, garlic, cumin, basil are the spices used in my house for cooking.
- Spices used in my friend’s house for cooking – turmeric, ginger, saffron, pepper.
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Now try and make your own riddles about two other spices. Ask those riddles in your class. Draw picture of the two spices in your notebook and write their names.
Find out whether any spices are grown in your area. Write their names here.
Bring some whole spices to class. Write their names in the table. Close your eyes and try to recognise each spice by smelling and touching each one in turn. Put a (✓) mark in front of the ones you recognise. If you do not recognise any, put a (x) mark.
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How do spice-less and very spicy things feel on your tongue?
Try to learn and make a different kind a chaat and enjoy it with all your friends in class.
