The yellow fruit
What kind of fruit is delicious อร่อย yellow?
That’s right ใช่แล้ว. It is a banana.
Bananas grow on เติบโต banana plants. Banana plants พืช are not tree. Bunches หวี of banana come out ออกมา of the stalks ก้านต้น of the plants. Each bunch contains about 15 bananas. The size of banana is not definite. Some are as big as your arm, and some can be as tiny ซึ่งมีขนาดเล็กมาก as your fingers. But every one of them surely is yummy แซบ.
Bananas are planted in banana plantations สวนไร่. Farmers plant banana in these large areas. First, the farmers would plant the banana roots in the ground. Then, after banana leaves ใบไม้ใบกล้วย grow and the petals of banana blossomsดอกไม้ของต้นไม้ซึ่งผลกินได้ drop off งอลง, there appears เกิด a cluster of bananas เครือกล้วย. Bananas grow very fast at first. Sometime they can grow as high as a house.
We buy bananas from a market or a grocery store ร้านขายของชำ. Then we are able to taste the sweet and tender อ่อนนุ่ม taste of banana. Sometime we cook them as desserts, such as banana pudding ขนมพุดดิ้ง, but banana can be cooked as a vegetable as well. Banana which are cooked as vegetables are those that never get sweet.
These yellow fruit are picked after they have been planted for a year. But we do not pick them when they are ripe สุก, we pick them when they are still green. The reason เหตุผล for this is that it may take a long time before these bananas reach ไปถึง a market or a grocery store. If we pick them when they are already ripe, they can spoil เน่าเสีย on their way from the banana plantations to the market. Therefore, they are picked when they are green so that they can get ripe on boats เรือ or trains which carry บรรทุก them to us.
A comprehension ความเข้าใจ
True or false? Tick for true statement and for the false one.
1. Bananas grow out of banana trunks ลำต้น. ผิด
2. A banana plant is a kind of tree.ผิด
3. Bananas can only be cooked as desserts.ผิด
4. We put roots in the ground to plant banana ถูก
5. Bananas have only one size ผิด
6. These are flowers on banana plants.ถูก
7. We pick banana after we have plant them for 1 year.ถูก
Choose เลือก the correct answer
1. What is this story about? = a yellow fruit called banana.
2. According to ตามที่กล่าวไว้ (according จะตามด้วย to เสมอ) be the passage, where do we buy bananas? = market and grocery stores.
3. How are banana sent to up? = by boat
4. Why do bananas have to be picked when they are still green? = because they can get ripe during shipping.
5. Bunches means = things grouped together
6. Stalk means = main stem of plan
7. A grocery store is = a shop that sells food and small household goods
8. Tender อ่อนนุ่ม means = delicateละเอียดอ่อนนุ่ม
9. Plantation = large pieces of land where plans are grow
10. Drop off mean = fall off
11. Clusterพวง,เครือ mean = a number of things staying close together
12. Definite แน่นอน = certain
13. Ripe mean = ready to be eaten
14. Spoil mean = become too bad to be eaten.
