1. Party stuff.

Look at the pictures and listen to the words.

2. Can you remember?

Choose the correct option.

3. Preparing a New Year's Eve meal.

In exercise 4 you will read a recipe for a New Year's Eve meal. First, look at this cooking vocabulary. Match the words to the pictures.

 

4. Festival food.

Japanese New Year food
Japanese New Year food is called osechi-ryori. It consists of many different kinds of dishes. It's a Japanese tradition to eat osechi-ryori during the New Year holidays (until 3 January). Traditionally, people cook osechi dishes before New Year's Eve so they can have food for a couple days without cooking.

Now look at the recipe of an osechi-ryori dish called tazukuri. Choose the correct picture of this dish.

Tazukuri* (osechi: teriyaki-dried sardines)

Ingredients:
      2 cups dried sardines
      2 tablespoons sugar
      2 tablespoons soy sauce
      1 teaspoon rice wine
      2 teaspoons white sesame seeds

How to cook:
      1. Put the dried sardines in a frying pan and fry them well.
      2. Put the sugar, soy sauce and wine in a pan and put it on a high burner.
      3. When the sugar mixture is thick, add the dried sardines.
      4. Turn off the burner and stir well.
      5. Sprinkle the sesame seeds.
      6. Cool it before serving.

*Makes 4 servings.

5. Preparing tazukuri.

Watch the video. Drag the cooking instructions into the correct order.

 

6. Can you remember?

Here are the instructions from exercise 5. Watch the video again. Use the verbs to complete the instructions.

7. Test your memory.

Watch the video again. Write the cooking instructions on a piece of paper. Write six sentences. When you have finished, compare your sentences with the original ones.

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See answers

How to cook tazukuri:

  1. Put the dried sardines in a frying pan and fry them well.
  2. Put the sugar, soy sauce and wine in another pan and put it on a high burner.
  3. When the sugar mixture is thick, add the dried sardines.
  4. Turn off the heat and stir well.
  5. Sprinkle the sesame seeds.
  6. Cool it before serving.

Now go to Tutorial 1 and do exercise 1.

8. Revise your festival vocabulary.

Can you remember these words related to festivals? Use the words to complete the sentences.