{"id":24821,"date":"2023-02-23T07:08:45","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T06:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phoneenglish.es\/blog\/?p=24821"},"modified":"2023-02-23T07:08:47","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T06:08:47","slug":"sushi-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phoneenglish.es\/blog\/2023\/02\/sushi-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"Sushi Terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

B2 – Upper Intermediate<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sushi is one of the most popular Japanese dishes all around the world. Recently, some pranks have become viral on social media where some pranksters are seen meddling with the food at some conveyor belt sushi restaurants.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This lead to customers rethinking about going to this kind of restaurants, police conducting investigations, and restaurants\u2019 shares plummeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the article about a series of pranks at conveyor belt sushi restaurants that is dubbed as \u201csushi terrorism\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/03\/wave-of-sushi-terrorism-grips-japans-restaurant-world<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vocabulary Questions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. What does \u201cmeddle<\/strong>\u201d mean, \u201cSignature cuisine is at the centre of a police investigation after customers at revolving sushi restaurants posted video clips of themselves <\/em>meddling<\/span><\/em><\/strong> with dishes.\u201d?<\/em> Use this word in your own sentence.<\/li>
  2. What does \u201degregious<\/strong>\u201d mean, \u201dA clip of the most <\/em>egregious<\/em><\/strong> culinary crime, which has been viewed almost 40m times on Twitter, shows what appears to be a teenager licking the open top of a communal soy sauce bottle and the entire rim of a teacup, which he then places back on a shelf.\u201d?<\/em> Give at least one (1) synonym of this word and use it in a sentence.<\/li>
  3. What does \u201coutpouring<\/strong>\u201d mean? \u201cThe firm\u2019s president, Kohei Nii, said he had been overwhelmed by the <\/em>outpouring<\/span><\/em><\/strong> of support.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0 Use this word in your own sentence.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Discussion Questions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1. What is your reaction to this news? How does this affect your interest in going to a conveyor belt sushi restaurant?<\/li>
    2. How can the restaurants bounce back from this controversy?<\/li>
    3. What are your thoughts on the action by some conveyor belt sushi restaurants to install cameras above conveyor belts to monitor customers?<\/li>
    4. How should these pranksters be punished?<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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