Rooms, Rings and Screens: teacher key

Japan, grade 11 edition, written for 11th grade. From the front-door entryway to sumo rings and phone screens, the customs, sports and inventions of Japan, with their years.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. What do people take off at the genkan?
   • Their hats
   • Their outdoor shoes (answer)
   • Their gloves
2. How is the size of a Japanese room often given?
   • In steps across
   • By its windows
   • By the number of tatami mats that fit (answer)
3. What did Nintendo make before video games?
   • Playing cards called hanafuda (answer)
   • Radios
   • Bicycles
4. Why could rival phone companies offer emoji too?
   • They were free in law books
   • They were drawn by many people
   • Docomo could not copyright them (answer)
5. When did the Tokaido Shinkansen begin running?
   • 1872
   • 1964 (answer)
   • 2019
6. What does karaoke join together?
   • Kara (empty) and oke (orchestra) (answer)
   • Rice and fish
   • Kan and ji

Words

• genkan: entryway
• tatami: woven floor mat
• sento: public bathhouse
• kanji: Chinese-based characters
• hanafuda: Japanese playing cards