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# Kitchen vocabulary with a picture: eight useful words

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Learn eight English words from one kitchen scene, check what each word names, and test yourself with three picture questions.

A kitchen gives you several different kinds of words: a tool, a container, food and the surface they sit on. Start with this supplied scene, then use the same naming routine with your own kitchen.

![A bright kitchen counter with a white kettle, a wooden cutting board, cut lemon, glass bottle, bowl of green apples and potted plants](https://wordpin.app/assets/kitchen.webp)

A public WordPin illustration. The words, explanations and practice sentences in this lesson are editor-curated; this is not a test of AI recognition accuracy or a private upload.

## Try three picture questions

Look at the picture before opening each answer. The word cards below can help if you get stuck. There is no score: use the answers to check what you meant to name.

1. Which object on the right has a handle and a spout?

Answer: The kettle. It is the large white object beside the fruit bowl.

2. What is directly under the cut lemon?

Answer: The cutting board. The counter is under the board, so these are two different surfaces.

3. What names the container holding the fruit? What names one piece of that fruit?

Answer: Bowl names the container; apple names the fruit. Check whether a photo label names the object itself or its contents.

## Eight kitchen words in context

### kettle

Find it: The large white object with a handle and spout on the right.

A container used to boil water.

The white kettle is next to the bowl.

### cutting board

Find it: The wooden rectangle directly under the lemon.

A board you put food on when cutting it.

The lemon is on the cutting board.

### lemon

Find it: The cut yellow fruit in the middle.

A yellow citrus fruit.

The lemon is cut in half.

### bottle

Find it: The glass container behind the cutting board.

A container with a narrow neck.

The bottle is behind the cutting board.

### bowl

Find it: The white container holding the green fruit.

A deep, round container for food.

The apples are in the bowl.

### apple

Find it: One of the green pieces of fruit in the bowl.

A round fruit that can be green or red.

The apple is green.

### plant

Find it: The leafy plant in a pot on the left.

A living thing with leaves and roots.

The plant is in a pot.

### counter

Find it: The white work surface under the kitchen objects.

A kitchen surface used to prepare food.

The kettle stands on the counter.

## Name the object you actually mean

The bowl and the apples are both visible. If you want the container, learn bowl; if you want the fruit, learn apple. A photo label can name either, so compare it with your intended object.

The picture alone does not establish the plant variety or what liquid is in the bottle. Use plant and bottle unless you have more context. Do not turn an uncertain guess into a label you repeatedly practise.

This lesson uses cutting board; you may also see [chopping board](https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/chopping-board). Here [counter](https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/counter) means the kitchen work surface; regional usage also includes worktop. These links are dictionary references; the examples above were written for this picture.

## Use the routine with another picture

- Choose three familiar objects you cannot yet name in your learning language.
- Check the name against the object, then say a short sentence you can verify.
- Hide the name and try recalling it from the picture later.

For another supplied scene, try [breakfast vocabulary](https://wordpin.app/learn/breakfast-vocabulary/) or [market vocabulary](https://wordpin.app/learn/market-vocabulary/). The [interactive browser sample](https://wordpin.app/demo/) is a separate breakfast scene; it does not scan this kitchen picture or sync with iPhone. Use the iPhone app to recognise your own photos and choose your learning language.

Not sure which container name to use? Compare [cup, mug and glass with four picture questions](https://wordpin.app/learn/cup-mug-glass-difference/).

## Learn words from a photo

[Interactive sample ↗](https://wordpin.app/demo/)

[Read as Markdown](https://wordpin.app/learn/kitchen-vocabulary/index.md)

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