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Restaurant English: Ordering Food

Restaurant English: Ordering Food
Time: 1 hour Focus: The purpose of this lesson is to give false beginners the skills to order food in a restaurant. This lesson follows a simple format of an introduction and discussion, followed by a role-play activity. Preparation: The teacher will need to print off and photocopy four sheets: restaurant menus, the waiters' activity sheet, the customers' activity sheet, and the role-play prompts. Introduction: Tell the students that they will be ordering food from restaurants today. Usually, the student will say something very basic, "Hamburger." If the student gives a more sophisticated answer, then I write it on the board and then we begin to discuss other ways of ordering food. Discussion: The purpose of the above demonstration is a lesson in pragmatic competence. As a class we briefly discuss ways to order food: I'll have a hamburger, please. Role-play Activity: Now, comes the real focus of the class: a role-play activity to practice ordering food.. Restaurant Cloze Activity Target Language: Related:  Easy

Ready Steady Go! 1 - Elevpaket (Bok + digital produkt) (38996-01) Ready Steady Go! är ett läromedel i engelska i tre delar särskilt anpassat för nyanlända elever i åldern 12–16 år. Eleven startar på den nivå som passar bäst – oavsett ålder. Den första delen i serien, Ready Steady Go! Med Ready Steady Go! följa en tydlig struktur för att nå de grundläggande målen för grundskolan ta inlärningen i överblickbara steg med mycket stöttning lära sig engelska från grunden utan att behöva kunna svenska kontrastera till sitt eget modersmål och lära sig svenska samtidigt göra en konkret dokumentation av sina framsteg Elevboken Elevboken består av tolv kapitel. Hörövningar, utvärdering och repetition Till varje övning i boken finns också en digital övning. Efter kapitel 3, 6 och 9 finns repetitionsuppslag med pyssel och spel. Den digitala delen I den digitala delen finns: Den digitala delen fungerar på dator, surfplatta och mobiltelefon.

4 Ways to Complain in a Restaurant in English Do you know how to complain in a restaurant if something goes wrong? What if your food is cold? What if it's taking a long time for your food to come out of the kitchen? What if the waitress brings you a dish that you did not order? You have to complain! But in order to do that, you need the right words and phrases. In today's article, I will give you four scenarios and a few ways to complain in each situation. Scenario #1: Your food is cold "I'm sorry to bother you, but the food is quite cold."" Scenario #2: You got the wrong order "I'm sorry, but this isn't what I ordered""Hi, is this the ____ that I ordered?"" Scenario #3: The food is taking too long "I am so sorry to bother you, but we have somewhere to be. Scenario #4: You don't like or can't eat your meal "Sorry, but I ordered a mild version of this dish and this is quite spicy."" Do you want to learn more about this topic and practice using these phrases with a native speaker?

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Food in Britain Carmen: The Chinese introduced oriental food to Britain. But before the Chinese, immigrants from all around the world came to live in London. British people enjoy a huge range of food and flavours from other countries. This is Borough Market, London’s oldest food market. This is Italian cheese. Restaurants from all around the world can be found on most British high streets. But just what are the UK’s favourite dishes? On the Street: My favourite meal is Thai green curry. On the Street: One of my favourite meals is... cottage pie with peas. On the Street: My favourite food is... On the Street: What’s my favourite meal? Chef: This is a full English breakfast. Carmen: A big fried breakfast might not be to everyone’s taste. Celia Brooks Brown is a food writer and knows all about food and the future of food in the UK, today. Mmm! Celia: Well, this is a British tomato salad with a Yorkshire-made sheep’s cheese. Carmen: So is this a sign of developments in British cooking? Carmen: Hmm.

Weather vocabulary Weather is one of the most common conversational topics in Britain. Therefore, if you know the basic vocabulary, you can talk to 60 million people. With 60 million conversation opportunities, it is well worth the little effort you need to put in.To make it as enjoyable as possible, there are several activities to help you learn all the words: a pictionary, a worksheet, a video and an interactive test.ADVERT: You can learn the vocabulary using the following infographic or pictionary: To get the pronunciation right, listen and repeat the words in the following video: After you learn the words, it is time to practise using the new vocabulary. Weather vocabulary – quiz The following interactive quiz is made in HTML5, so it will play on all mobile devices. If you would like to display the quiz on the entire screen, click the button below: Weather vocabulary – further resources You can find a lot of information about weather at British Council site. I like the following songs about weather:

Learning basic English Learn English lessons books exercise free Clothes vocabulary – elementary Clothes vocabulary is useful and quite easy to learn. Here you will find a video introducing the correct pronunciation (American English) of the words. Watch the video and repeat. In the second part of the video you should say the words yourself. Advertisement: Video Watch the video and repeat the words. Clothes vocabulary mind map Here is a mind map of the clothes vocabulary. Clothes vocabulary games Once you went through all the words and you think you know them, it is time to practise them in the following games. Fill in the blank The second game is a matching activity. Matching The last activity to practise clothes vocabulary is a crossword. Crossword The last game is called Click the word. Clicking I hope that by now you know all the new words pretty well. Other games to learn English The Kiss is a classical story by the American author Kate Chopin.

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