Fill in the blanks in the recipe given below with words from the box.

Easy Palak-Dal

INGREDIENTS

• One ________________

• One cup dal

• Two thin green chillies

• __________________a teaspoon red chilli powder

• Eight small bunches of palak

• Two ___________________

• Salt to taste

Wash and cut the vegetables; ______________the palak. Put everything in a pressure _________________. Let the cooker whistle three _____________, then switch it off. Fry a few cumin seeds in __________________ and add to the palak-dal.

What happens to the volunteer who swallows four drops of the new invention? What is the name of the invention?

Why does Mr Wonka collect items from the oldest things? Do you think this is the right way to begin his invention?

How many of the oldest living things can you remember from Mr Wonka’s list? (Don’t look back at the story!) Do you think all these things really exist, or are some of them purely imaginary?

(i) What trees does Mr Wonka mention? Which tree does he say lives the longest?

(ii) How long does this tree live? Where can you find it?

Mr Wonka begins by asking himself two questions. What are they?

(i) What is _______________________________________________?

(ii) What lives ____________________________________________?

Can anyone’s age be a minus number? What does “minus 87” mean?

Choose the right answer.

(i) Mr Willy Wonka is (a) a cook, (b) an inventor, (c) a manager.

(ii) Wonka-Vite makes people (a) older, (b) younger.

(iii) Mr Wonka wants to invent a new thing which will make people (a) younger, (b) older.

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