FMA: Overview

Food and Manners

"No sushi! No raw fish!" could be your grandparent's comment on the most famous and favored Japanese food. How about your parents? How about you? There are many varieties of sushi without raw fish and many of you probably found at least one or two kinds of sushi you like. Besides sushi, there are many other Japanese dishes you might like; you just haven't tried them yet. In this module, you will be introduced to a variety of Japanese food, and Japanese table manners, so you can impress your company and sushi chef during the next trip to a Japanese restaurant.

Essential Questions:

• Can you name some of the familiar American food and drink in Japanese?
• Can you identify some Japanese food items?
• How do you offer food or drink to someone?
• How do you decline food or drink someone offers to you?
• Can you order food in a restaurant in Japanese?
• How do you express the degree of likes and dislikes of certain food?

Key Terms

Your key terms for this module will appear in the content pages that follow. Be sure to ask your instructor if you have any questions.

Goals

By the end of this module, for listening and speaking skills, you will be able to name the foods and drinks you might have, use the appropriate expressions at the beginning and the end of meals, politely offer food or drink to someone, accept or decline offers of food and drink without offending anyone.   For reading and writing skills, you will review hiragana かきくけこ , 　さしすせそ , and learn to recognize Katakana カキクケコ 、サシスセソ . For cultural understanding, you will learn how to eat and drink Japanese food properly, and taste a Japanese dish in a restaurant or at home.

Japanese I Standards

• Japanese I Standards - FMA Links to an external site.
• National Technology Net Standards Links to an external site.

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