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Lunch at a Japanese School
by Jenny Hames Children at school in Japan learn many of the same things that New Zealand children learn at school. But their lunchtimes are very different. Their food is cooked for them at school, and they all eat together in their classrooms.
At the end of morning classes, the children all get up and bow to the teacher. Then, as soon as she tells them, they put on the white smocks they wear to eat their lunch. The children on lunch duty serve the food on to the plates. They wear masks over their mouths, to stop them breathing germs over the food.
No one starts eating until everyone has been served. Then one of the children gets up and says, "Now we shall eat." The children in this class are eating rice, fish, seaweed soup, and a mandarin. At the end of the meal, the child who gave the word to start gets up to say that lunch is over. They all scrape their plates clean and pile them up. Then the children on lunch duty take the plates back to the kitchen.
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Read about lunchtime at a Japanese school to do the following tasks.
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The flowchart below shows what happens at lunchtime in a Japanese school.
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What is one way that lunchtime at a Japanese school is different from lunchtime at a New Zealand school?
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What is one way that lunchtime at a Japanese school is the same as lunchtime in a New Zealand school
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