Cagliari Market is an extract used in “A Comprehensive English Course: Book 5” to teach descriptive writing. The extract describes the narrator’s experience as he walks into a vegetable market with his wife.
Key words from the passage:
Spinach – Spinach is a leafy green flowering plant.
Cauliflower – an annual plant which reproduces by seed. The head of the plant is cooked and eaten.
Violet – a herbaceous plant of temperate regions, typically having purple, blue, or white flowers.
Radish – a small, red or white vegetable that grows as a root and is eaten raw, esp. in salads
Turnip – a round root with white or cream flesh which is eaten as a vegetable and also has edible leaves.
Artichoke – a plant with a round mass of pointed parts like leaves surrounding its flower that are eaten as a vegetable:
Date (fruit) – A date is a stone fruit, meaning it has a single seed surrounded by an outer fleshy fruit (like peaches, mangoes, and olives).
Fig – a sweet, soft, purple or green fruit with many seeds.
Almond – an edible oval nut with a hard shell, or the tree that it grows on.
Walnut – a nut with a slightly bitter taste, a series of folds in it, and a hard shell.
Raisin – a grape of any of several varieties that has been dried in the sun or by artificial heat.
Scarlet – bright red.
Trumpet – a musical instrument.
Fennel – an aromatic yellow-flowered plant.
Kohlrabi – a kind of cabbage
Asparagus – a vegetable that is long and green and has small shoots at one end. It is usually cooked and served whole.
Sparacelli – a kind of asparagus.
Mandarini – a kind of tangerine
