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ssheet for Beginner activities
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Contents
Teacher Notes
Podcast notes
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Podcast 1 Transcript
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Podcast 1 Answers
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Podcast 2 Transcript
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Answers for Beginner Level Museum Activities
6 - 10
Answers for Intermediate Level Museum Activities
11-18
Answers for Advanced Level Museum Activities
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Teacher Notes
Podcasts
Students download the following podcasts directly onto their own or the school’s
iPods and use them in conjunction with a visit to the museum.
Podcast 1 Transcript (Intermediate/Advanced)
Listen to the following podcast carefully. Find the various items in the exhibition and
write down your answers.
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9. Thick tea
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Podcast 1 Answers
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Chabako is a portable tea ceremony set.
4.
There is a toy inside.
5.
There are four.
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7.
A sweet dumpling is better than flowers. (Something practical is better
than something pretty).
8.
Tea garden.
9. Thick tea
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Podcast 2 Transcript (Intermediate)
The following podcast can be played as a starting point for discussion around the
topic of ‘Sweets’.
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Teacher Notes
Beginner/Intermediate Video Answers
Watch the video about the Japanese tea ceremony and answer the questions
below.
1.
Where do guests go first?
Tea garden, Roji.
2.
Watch the video carefully. How many times do they bow?
7-8 times (group bowing counted as one).
3.
Why do guests wash their hands and drink water?
To put their mind at peace and purify themselves.
4.
What is this?
Sensu (a folding fan).
5.
He is watching ikebana and kakejiku. Why is he doing this?
It’s a beautiful time to enjoy beautiful art.
6.
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What is omotenashi?
A warm, heart-felt hospitality towards guests.
7.
When do guests eat w agashi?
Before tea in the Japanese tea ceremony.
8.
What is maccha?
Powdered green tea.
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9.
What is ‘an’?
Sweet bean paste, made from azuki beans.
10.
What is koicha?
Thick tea, exceptionally high-quality powdered green tea prepared as a
runny paste.
11.
What do guests do before drinking tea?
Guest bows to the next guest to excuse themselves from going ahead
of the other guests.
12.
What did she do after drinking?
The guests bow as an acknowledgement of all the preparation and hard
work that’s gone into that bowl.
13.
What is higashi?
Dry sweets, press-moulded sugar sweets or beautifully designed sugar
candies.
The sweets are given a Japanese poetic names that become a
conversation point in the tea ceremony.
14.
When do guests eat higashi?
Before the thin tea.
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Teacher Notes
Beginner Museum Activities – Answers
1.
Draw lines to match the pictures to the words and explanations. Write the
name of the object in hiragana on the line provided.
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Yaki-in
Moulds for sweet
decorations
Used to make flower or
leaf-shaped
confectionery.
Chabako
Branding irons
Made from steel, heated
to burn decorative marks
on the dough on *manju.
Manju:
steamed bun
Nukigata
Seasonal white bean
sweet
Made from white beans,
often used for high
quality Japanese
ceremony.
Setogata
Portable tea ceremony
set
Japanese lacquer ware
with ‘four nobles’ flower
motif.
Seasonal
Wagashi
Ceramic mould
Ceramic mould used for
making summer
confectionery made from
*Kanten/agar-agar.
Kanten:
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Teacher Notes
2.
Can you name some tools from other cultures that are used for cooking or
making sweets?
Teachers and students should discuss this back in the classroom.
3.
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5.
Look at the Japanese sweets below and write the colours in Japanese.
What colours represent celebrations in Japan?
What does hana yori dango
exhibition and write the meaning in English.
mean? Find this in the
A sweet dumpling (dango) is better than flowers (hana).
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flowers
Japanese sweet dumpling
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Teacher Notes
6.
When do people eat the following sweets? Draw a circle around the correct
season.
Midori CC BY-SA-2.0
Image:
A Japanese diamond shaped
mochi with three layers of pink,
white and green, eaten during
the Girls’ Day Festival
(Hinamatsuri).
Japanese red and white candy
packaged in a bag decorated
with a crane and a turtle,
symbolising longevity. This is
eaten during the Shichi-Go-San
ceremony for girls turning 3 and
7 and boys turning 5.
Image: Katorisi CC BY-SA-2.0
A Japanese rice cake wrapped
in an oak leaf with sweet red
bean paste inside eaten during
Boy’s Day/Children’s Day
(Kodomo no hi).
Image: Katorisi CC BY-SA-2.0
A Japanese sweet dumpling.
Usually sold all year around but
commonly eaten for cherry
blossom viewing
(ohanami/hanami).
Image: Shizhao CC BY-SA-2.0
Image: BetacommandBot CC BY-SA-2.0
A soft dumpling containing
mashed sweet potatoes and
chestnuts in syrup. Kurikinton is
often put in Osechi ryori.
Shaved ice with syrup or azuki
beans.
Image: Tamago915 CC BY-SA-2.0
Katorisi CC BY-SA-2.0
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Image:
A pink Japanese rice cake filled
with sweet red bean paste
wrapped in sakura (cherry
blossom) leaf.
season
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Teacher Notes
Intermediate Museum Activities – Answers
1.
M irror shaped sw eet
Red bean sw eet w ith
mochi inside, a popular
ingredient for Japanese
sw eets.
Seasonal w hite bean sw eet
M ade from w hite beans,
often used for Japanese
confectionery.
Sw eet rice crackers
Novelty crackers w ith toy
inside.
2.
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Teacher Notes
tool, utensil
3.
They look like jelly moulds or biscuit cutters.
similar
4.
Image: Midori CC BY-SA-2.0
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Image: Katorisi CC BY-SA-2.0
Image: Katorisi CC BY-SA-2.0
Image: Shizhao CC BY-SA-2.0
Image: BetacommandBot CC BY-SA-2.0
Image: Tamago915 CC BY-SA-2.0
Image: Katorisi CC BY-SA-2.0
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Teacher Notes
5.
(cherry blossoms)
(remaining snow)
(coming summer)
meaning
6.
A sweet dumpling (dango) is better than flowers (hana).
Something practical is better than something pretty.
saying
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Teacher Notes
1.
He bowed lower than we normally do in Australia.
bow
2.
thick tea
warm, heart-felt hospitality
dry sweets
Japanese sweets
sweet bean paste
powdered green tea
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Teacher Notes
3.
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tool, utensil
to make (tea)
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cloth
hot water
to wipe
tea bowl
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4.
So that they don’t overpower the essence of the tea.
5.
So that they can share the experience and feel closer to one another.
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Image: Katorisi CC BY-SA-2.0
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Teacher Notes
Advanced Museum Activities – Answers
3.
M irror shaped sw eet
Red bean sw eet w ith mochi
inside, a popular ingredient
for Japanese sw eets.
Seasonal w hite bean sw eet
M ade from w hite beans,
often used for Japanese
confectionery.
Sw eet rice crackers
Novelty crackers w ith toy
inside.
4.
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6.
Image: Midori CC BY-SA-2.0
Image: Katorisi CC BY-SA-2.0
Image: Katorisi CC BY-SA-2.0
Image: Shizhao CC BY-SA-2.0
Image: BetacommandBot CC
BY-SA-2.0
Image: Tamago915 CC BY-SA2.0
Image: Katorisi CC BY-SA-2.0
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to represent
8.
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1.
tea room
fan
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tool, utensil
to make (tea)
cloth
hot water
to wipe
tea bowl
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1.
Image: Katorisi CC BY-SA-2.0
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