An alphabet of food

What is the poem below about? What do you notice about the
way it is set out?

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1 What do you notice about the way the poem is set out?
2 What are .. .
a lovely to crunch?
b green and sweet?
c hard to crack?
3 What food is given for the letter: a M? b P? c S? d J?

4 No food is given for two letters. Which letters are these? Why is this?

5 Which type of food mentioned do you like best? Why?

6 Which food mentioned makes you cry?

7 Write a word from the poem that rhymes with a sweet b cheese c name

8 Think of another food beginning with the letter: a S b P cB d C

SE IENeE LEVEL

Choose the best adjective to complete each simile.

1 as sweet as honey (sweet / sour)
2 as as a watermelon (dry / juicy)
3 as as a pancake (flat / bumpy)
4 as as a lemon (sweet / sour)
5 as as an ice-cream (hot / cold)
6 as as a feather (light, heavy)
7 as as a knife (blunt / sharp)
8 as as a rock (hard / soft)

ORD L.:EVEL

1 Write these sets of words in alphabetical order according to their first

letters.
a orange, apple, melon, banana b tea, coffee, water. milk

c cage. ant, dance, bird d nail, python, melon, oil

2 Write these sets of words in alphabetical order according to the second

letter.
a eagle. eye. egg, elephant b deer, danger. dinner, drum

c pigeon, parrot. peas, priest d wood, wrist. west. winter

3 Write the following in alphabetical order :

a the days of the week b the months of the year

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