Workbook: Unit 10: It's delicious, It's awful (맛있어요, 맛없어요)

✍️ Workbook Exercise

Workbook: Unit 10 - It's delicious

Practice describing the taste of food and learning mealtime etiquette!

Exercise 1: Delicious or Awful?

Based on the English meaning, write down the correct Korean phrase.

  1. It is delicious.
  2. It tastes bad / It is not delicious.

Exercise 2: Mealtime Etiquette

Determine which phrase to use in each situation.

Options: [ 잘 먹겠습니다 / 잘 먹었습니다 ]

  1. Your friend just bought you lunch. You finish the last bite of your food, stand up, and say:
  2. Your mother sets a hot plate of food on the table for you. Before you pick up your chopsticks, you say:

Exercise 3: Putting it all together

Translate the following short dialogues.

Dialogue 1: A: (Pointing to a cake) What is this?

B: It is a cake.

A: Is it delicious?

B: Yes, it is delicious!

Dialogue 2: A: Please give me coffee.

B: (Hands the coffee) Here it is. A: (Takes a sip and grimaces) This tastes awful.

Answer Key

(Try not to look until you are finished!)

Click to reveal answers **Exercise 1:** 1. 맛있어요 2. 맛없어요 **Exercise 2:** 1. 잘 먹었습니다 (Past tense, because you already ate.) 2. 잘 먹겠습니다 (Future tense, because you are about to eat.) **Exercise 3:** **Dialogue 1:** *A:* 이거 뭐예요? *B:* 케이크예요. *A:* 맛있어요? *B:* 네, 맛있어요. **Dialogue 2:** *A:* 커피 주세요. *B:* ... *A:* 이거 맛없어요.