Most people enjoy eating out at least occasionally. In fact, in some countries a lot of people don’t even own a stove at home and always eat out! Learn how to talk about food and order it.

Beginning Learners:

What kinds of restaurants are there? What kinds of food are served?

Possible Vocabulary:

Learn the names of different sorts of restaurants

Learn the names for various restaurant dishes. Start with the most common ones.

Suggested Activities:

Activity 1: Order different things when you go out and take a picture when the food comes! Or look on the internet for pictures of typical dishes. Use Look and Listen and Do to learn to recognize, then say the names of these dishes.

Activity 2: Use Useful Phrases to learn to order a dish: “I’ll have the spaghetti carbonara please.” “I’d like, or I’ll have….” “Could I have the bill please?”

Activity 3: Try to talk about foods you like and dislike: “I like spaghetti carbonara. I don’t like ravioli.” Or whatever you actually like.

Intermediate Learners:

Activity 1: Use Dialogue Variations to learn the Scripts for different restaurants or different times of day and role play them with a LH.

Activity 2: Also Role Play the script for inviting people to eat at your home or what to do when you are invited to dinner at someone else’s home.