b) When can the yam come from the pot?

c) When is the yam ready to eat?

e) Why does Salamatu wash the ewedu leaves?

f) How does Salamatu’s family eat the soup and yam?

g) Is there any food you like to cook? Describe it.

a) What is the first thing Salamatu does with the yam?

d) What is the first thing Salamatu does with the
ewedu leaves?

h) Work with a partner. Show how to use a pestle
and mortar.

a) boiling

b) pounded

c) ewedu

d) meat

e) cooking

f) pestle

a) Etoro (cooked/cooks) the soup yesterday.

b) The soup (looked/looks) very green today.

c) She already (picks/picked) the leaves from the plant.

d) She first peeled the yam and now (boils/boiled) it in water.

e) Yesterday, Salamatu (skip/skipped) first in the game.

f) Hasan ran fast and (kick/kicked) the ball.

g) She is careful and (walks/walked) slowly down the path.

a) My father ________ his stew with a spoon.

b) She _______ our lunch while we do our school work.

c) Last week, we _______ the yam and soup with stew.

d) They _______ ewedu soup when they were children.

e) She _______ the ewedu leaves well before she boils them.

f) I _______ the leaves too long yesterday.

g) She _______ off the outer brown part of the yams.

h) She _______ the yam in the mortar until it was soft.

a) My mother cooks _______.

b) My father likes _______ in his food to make it spicy.

c) Fresh fruit is _______.

d) While cooking on a fire, _______.

e) She will use a pot to _______the yams.

f) She will fry the onions _______.

g) She pounds the yam and _______ round balls.

h) Pick the ewedu leaves and wash them _______.

i) Cook the leaves until they are _______.