Lesson Focus

This unit is about food, nutrition, and recipes. It emphasizes healthy eating and understanding the process of preparing food.

Key Vocabulary to Master

• Food & Nutrition: finger millet (kurakkan), nutritional value, dietary fibre, digestion, constipation, carbohydrates, diabetic, wholesome.

• Cooking Verbs: mix, sprinkle, pour, tie, cover, put on fire, boil, fry, bake.

• Food Items: porridge, idli, pittu, rotti, hoppers, pastries.

Grammar Focuses

1. Connectives (Conjunctions): Words that join ideas or sentences. This unit focuses on showing contrast or condition.

• Examples: while, although, even though, though, in spite of, whenever.

• "Singithi likes rice for breakfast, while her brother likes string hoppers."

• "Although many people skip breakfast, it is the most important meal."

1. Irregular Plurals: Nouns that don't form their plural by adding -s or -es.

• Foreign words: criterion → criteria, syllabus → syllabi, medium → media.

• Compound nouns: passer-by → passers-by, father-in-law → fathers-in-law.

Important Points for the O/L Exam

• Paper II (Reading): You might get a passage about a type of food or health topic. You could also be given a recipe and asked questions about the ingredients or the steps.

• Paper I (Writing): Writing a set of instructions (like a recipe) is a possible question. Describing a process is also common.

• Paper I (Grammar): Connectives are frequently tested. You will be asked to join two sentences using a given connective. Irregular plurals are also a popular topic for grammar questions.

Tips & Tricks for Studying

1. Write Your Own Recipe: Choose your favorite simple dish. Write down the ingredients and the method in clear, simple steps. Start each step with a verb (e.g., Wash the rice, Add water).

2. Connective Practice: Create sentences using the connectives from the lesson. For example: "Although it was raining, I went to school." "In spite of the rain, I went to school." (Notice the different sentence structure needed).

Irregular Plural List: Keep a list in your notebook of all the irregular plurals you learn. Review it once a week.