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🇯🇵 🛒 Daily life · Almost a beginner (A0)
🍜 Ordering at a restaurant
🎯 Get a table, order, and pay
🎮 Play this in classUse 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
- すきな にほん の たべもの は？ (Favorite Japanese food?)
- からい もの は だいじょうぶ？ (Spicy OK?)
🔑 Key phrases
- ふたり です (futari desu)Two people
- メニュー を おねがいします (menyū o onegaishimasu)Menu, please
- おすすめ は なん です か (osusume wa nan desu ka)What do you recommend?
- これ を ひとつ ください (kore o hitotsu kudasai)One of this, please
- おかいけい おねがいします (okaikei onegaishimasu)The check, please
- ごちそうさま でした (gochisōsama deshita)Thank you for the meal
📚 Useful words
- ひとつ・ふたつ (hitotsu, futatsu) — one, two (things)
- ひとり・ふたり (hitori, futari) — one, two (people)
- からい (karai) — spicy
- おみず (omizu) — water
- たべられません (taberaremasen) — can't eat
- べつべつ (betsubetsu) — separately (pay)
⚡ Speaking challenges
- Order 3 different things with ひとつ/ふたつ.
- Say an allergy: 〜が たべられません.
- Ask for water and the check.
- Count people up to 5: ひとり〜ごにん.
🎭 Role-play
A ramen shop / izakaya.
🧑🎓 Student's card
Enter, say how many people, ask for a recommendation, order 2 things and pay separately.
🧑🏫 Your card (tutor)
Be the staff: 'いらっしゃいませ！なんめいさま ですか？' Recommend something; ask about size or spice level.
🌀 Twist (halfway through): They're out of the dish: 'すみません、きょう は ありません'. The student must order something else.
🗣️ Discussion questions
- なに が たべたい ですか？ (What do you want to eat?)
- にく と さかな、どっち が すき？ (Meat or fish?)
- たべられない もの は ありますか？ (Anything you can't eat?)
📌 Homework
Write a short restaurant dialogue (6 lines)レストランの短い会話を6行書く