Tag: fruit

(This post is about the Fruit 2 vocabulary flashcards on Kitto_Cards at www. quizlet.com)

Fruit 2 contains this fruit:
plum, prickly pear, pomegranate, peach, grapefruit, cherry, fig, watermelon

Probably most of these types of fruit are familiar, but let’s use some less-familiar words to talk about them

plum – in case you’ve never eaten a Victoria plum,  a ripe English Victoria plum picked straight from the tree in August is, in my opinion, the most delicious fruit in the world. No other type of plum comes near it.  All types of plum have a large stone in the middle.

prickly pear – watch out for the nasty spines on these!  They have a very thick skin and  there are lots of seeds inside.

pomegranate -another fruit with a very thick skin and lots of seeds

peach – a delicious fruit with a very soft skin and a big stone which is often called a pit. The problem with peaches is that they are often bruised. 

grapefruit – a citrus fruit (like oranges, lemons and limes) but it’s quite sour. It has a lot of pips inside.

cherry – a delicious fruit with a large stone inside it.

fig – a very soft fruit which some people prefer dried. 

watermelon  – a beautiful fruit with watery, refreshing pulp that has lots of little black seeds.

So, a stone, a seed, a pit and a pip are all different types of seed in a fruit. When do we use each one? People use them in different ways, but generally:
A stone is big and very hard
A pit is just for peaches and olives (but it can be called a stone too)
A pip is for the seed of citrus fruits, grapes and apples
A seed is for more or less all other fruits

(This post is about the Fruit 1 vocabulary flashcards on Kitto_Cards at www. quizlet.com)

Fruit 1 contains this fruit:
raspberry, blackberry, mango, lime, blackcurrant, redcurrant, lychee, kiwi

Some of the fruit in this vocabulary set might not be familiar. I put in some extra fruit-related words in the notes too.

Raspberry, blackberry, blackcurrant and redcurrant are soft fruits from the more northern countries of the Northern Hemisphere. They’re delicious for breakfast or in puddings and fruit salads.

Blackcurrants are one of my favourite soft fruits, blackberries my second favourite and raspberries my third favourite. Redcurrants? Well, I get a huge crop of redcurrants each year from the bush in the garden, and it’s rather difficult to use them up. They have a very sharp flavour – not to everyone’s taste.

Lychees are from China; inside the hard red shell, they have white flesh and a powerful scent.

A mango is a delicious yellow tropical fruit with a very scented taste.

A lime is similar to a lemon, but it’s green, a bit less sour than a lemon, and with a different flavour.

Kiwi fruit originally come from New Zealand.  They have a furry skin which you have to peel.