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Korean Cuisine

Tenth graders explore Korean food (한식, hansik) — sit-down mains like 비빔밥 (bibimbap) and 불고기 (bulgogi), and famous street foods like 떡볶이 (tteokbokki) and 김밥 (gimbap). They sort restaurant dishes from street snacks.

Grade 10Cuisine50 minutes1 class periodACTFL / World LanguagesExplicit teaching4 StandardsACTFL
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Lesson at a Glance

Everything you need before the bell rings

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to…

  • ✓Name Korean dishes.
  • ✓Tell mains from street food.
  • ✓Explore hansik.
  • ✓Order a meal.
Essential Question

Bibimbap or tteokbokki? What is Korean food, and where do you eat it?

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Interactive Task
Sort It · Interactive

Main Dish or Street Food?

Project this and sort each Korean dish into a sit-down Main dish or Street food / snack.

🍜 Sort each dish — main dish or street food?Try it
🍽️ Main dishes
🍡 Street food / snacks
Tap a dish, then tap a box.
The Lesson · Language Flow (Warm-Up · Present · Practice · Speak · Reflect)

50 minutes, five moves

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1

Warm-Up — Korean Food

6 min

What is Korean food, and where do you eat each dish?

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Show a bibimbap photo.
  • Ask if they know it.
  • Set the goal.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Look.
  • Guess.
  • Get ready.
2

Present — Korean Cuisine

12 min

Students learn.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Send students to Main Dish or Street Food?
  • Sort each one.
  • Note bibimbap, tteokbokki.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Sort.
  • Say.
  • Note it.
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Practice — Practice

13 min

Students practice.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Name a main dish.
  • Name a street food.
  • Say masitda (delicious).

🎒 Student Actions

  • Name it.
  • Name it.
  • Say it.
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Speak — Speak

13 min

Students speak.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Say “Bibimbap-eul joahaeyo” (I like bibimbap).
  • Order a dish.
  • Ask a partner’s favorite.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Say it.
  • Order.
  • Ask.
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Reflect — Reflect

6 min

Students close.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Name a Korean dish.
  • Say where you’d eat it.
  • Complete the exit ticket.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Name one.
  • Say it.
  • Complete the exit ticket.
Standards Alignment

Built to the standards you report on

Aligned to the ACTFL World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages (Intermediate-Low).

ACTFL
Cultures 2.1

Explore Korean food culture.

ACTFL
Cultures 2.2

Explore cuisine as cultural practice.

ACTFL
Communication 1.2

Interpretive: understand food words.

ACTFL
Connections 3.1

Connect to food & daily life.

Differentiation

One lesson, every learner

Multilingual Learners

ELL / EMERGING READERS
  • Dish cards with photos.
  • Menu-style handout.
  • Repeat aloud.

Support & Access

IEP / 504
  • Start with bibimbap & gimbap.
  • Sort one at a time.
  • Use photos.

Stretch & Extend

GIFTED / EARLY FINISHERS
  • Add 냉면, 잡채.
  • Design a Korean menu.
  • Research a dish’s history.
Materials

What to gather

  • 📽️Screen / board
  • 🍜Dish cards + photos
  • 💻Main Dish or Street Food?
  • 🍽️Sample menu
  • ✏️Notebooks
  • 🎫Exit-ticket slips
Vocabulary

Key terms — hover for a quick definition

한식 (hansik)Korean food비빔밥 (bibimbap)mixed rice bowl불고기 (bulgogi)marinated beef김치 (kimchi)kimchi떡볶이 (tteokbokki)spicy rice cakes김밥 (gimbap)seaweed rice roll맵다 (maepda)spicy맛있다 (masitda)delicious
Evaluate

Exit Ticket

Preview the three formative checks. Tap “Sample answer” to see what mastery looks like — hide them before you print for students.

QUESTION 1
What is 비빔밥 (bibimbap)?
A mixed rice bowl (a main dish).
QUESTION 2
Is 떡볶이 (tteokbokki) a main dish or street food?
Street food — spicy rice cakes.
QUESTION 3
What does 한식 (hansik) mean?
Korean food.

Reflect: cuisine.

Have students name their favorite Korean dish and where they’d eat it. A printable Korean cuisine sheet is in the World Languages library.

Study · Flashcards

Study the key terms

Tap a card to flip it, then rate whether you knew it. Built from this lesson’s vocabulary.

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Practice · Quiz

Check your understanding

A quick self-check with instant feedback, drawn from this lesson’s key terms.

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Practice · Worksheet

Printable worksheet

A print-and-go review sheet with a built-in answer key. Tap “Show answer key” to reveal answers, or print the clean version for students.

🖨️ Korean CuisinePrint
Name: ________________________
Date: ____________

Part A · Write the word that matches each meaning

Word bank: 김밥 (gimbap), 김치 (kimchi), 떡볶이 (tteokbokki), 맛있다 (masitda), 맵다 (maepda), 불고기 (bulgogi), 비빔밥 (bibimbap), 한식 (hansik)
  1. spicy rice cakes
  2. delicious
  3. Korean food
  4. seaweed rice roll
  5. marinated beef
  6. kimchi
  7. spicy
  8. mixed rice bowl

Part B · Show what you learned

  1. What is 비빔밥 (bibimbap)?
  2. Is 떡볶이 (tteokbokki) a main dish or street food?
  3. What does 한식 (hansik) mean?
Answer key — Part A: 1) 떡볶이 (tteokbokki) · 2) 맛있다 (masitda) · 3) 한식 (hansik) · 4) 김밥 (gimbap) · 5) 불고기 (bulgogi) · 6) 김치 (kimchi) · 7) 맵다 (maepda) · 8) 비빔밥 (bibimbap)
Part B: 1) A mixed rice bowl (a main dish). 2) Street food — spicy rice cakes. 3) Korean food.