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For a quick way to kill time or as a warm-up to get your thoughts flowing, I’ve put together a perfect brain-training activity: a fill-in-the-blank quiz! It’s divided into vocabulary, proverbs, and four-character idiom sections, so you can exercise different kinds of thinking in each.
I’ve finely tuned the difficulty to gradually ramp up, so you’ll definitely find it worth the challenge! It’s a fun set of problems that elementary schoolers can try and that also works great as a recreational activity for seniors.
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Word fill-in-the-blank quiz (1–10)
“Sho○○ki” — A tool commonly found in public facilities that is used to put out fires.
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“しょうかき” (shōkaki): fire extinguisher
There are three types of fire extinguishers: powder-based, water-based, and gas-based. The extinguisher body also has illustrations showing which types of fires it is effective against, so if you’re curious, please take a look at them.
“Sa〇ra〇bo”: A sweet-and-tart, small, reddish fruit.
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cherry
The cherry season runs from May to July, which is a fairly wide range. When is it around where you live?
“Basketball” A ball sport often played in gymnasiums, in which Japan’s national team has made remarkable progress in recent years.
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Basketball
Japan’s professional basketball league, the B.LEAGUE, is really exciting too. And that squeaky “kyu” sound the shoes make on the court feels so satisfying, doesn’t it?
“Ha〇〇g” — a minced-meat dish loved by both adults and children.
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hamburger steak
When you cut into it, the juices gush out... Just imagining it is making me hungry.
“In〇do〇〇a”: A country located to the southwest of Japan, consisting of many islands.
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Indonesia
Indonesia has over 17,500 islands! However, the count is often recalculated, so it might change in the future.
Proverb Fill-in-the-Blank Quiz (1–10)
Even the best scribes make mistakes.
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Even Kōbō makes mistakes with his brush.
It means that no matter how skilled someone is, they can still make mistakes. “Kobo” refers to Kukai, the monk who spread Buddhism during the Heian period.
A wise hawk hides its talons.
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A wise hawk hides its talons.
A proverb that says people with great ability don’t show it off. Still, bragging is something you just can’t help wanting to do, isn’t it?