🇬🇧 🎌 Culture · Greetings and self-introductions (A1)

🍣 Explaining Japanese food

🎯 Explain what a dish is, how it tastes and how to eat it

Use the usual 50-minute plan: warm-up → key phrases → challenges → role-play → discussion → wrap-up. Share this page on Zoom so the student can see the phrases, but keep "Your card" to yourself.

💬 Warm-up questions

What did you eat for dinner yesterday?
What's your favorite Japanese food?

🔑 Key phrases

It's made of rice and fish.ご飯と魚で作られています。
It tastes a little sweet.少し甘い味がします。
You dip it in soy sauce.しょうゆにつけて食べます。
It's a kind of soup.スープの一種です。
Do you want to try it?食べてみる？
It's popular in winter.冬に人気があります。

📚 Useful words

raw — 生の
fried — 揚げた
grilled — 焼いた
sour — すっぱい
salty — しょっぱい
chopsticks — 箸

⚡ Speaking challenges

Explain natto to someone who has never seen it.
Describe a dish using taste words.
Explain how to eat ramen like a local.
Describe your mom's / family's best dish.

🎭 Role-play

Taking a foreign friend to an izakaya.

🧑‍🎓 Student's card

Explain 3 dishes on the menu (e.g. okonomiyaki, natto, oden) and help your friend order.

🧑‍🏫 Your card (tutor)

Be a curious foreign friend: 'What is it made of?', 'Is it spicy?', 'How do I eat this?'

🌀 Twist (halfway through): The friend is vegetarian. The student must find suitable dishes.

🗣️ Discussion questions

What Japanese food is hardest to explain?
What food would you recommend to a tourist?
What foreign food do you love?

📌 Homework

Write a 'Japanese food guide' with 5 dishes for foreigners外国人向けに5品の日本食ガイドを書く