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worksheets (4)
book references (13)
audio (2)
quiz (1)
video (1)
 
 
 
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Restaurant complaint cards
20 minutes
groups: 2-4
 
Twelve cards, each with a sentence expressing a complaint at a restaurant - e.g This soup is cold. Students have to mime and guess the complaints.
 
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Restaurant complaint role play
 
Pair work. Two role cards plus revision of negative adjectives
 
 
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Common phrases: pubs and restuarants II
 
(1) Grid of 36 common spoken phrases and expressions useful for a pub or restaurant (various functions including informal offers, requests and situation-specific functions - asking for food preferences etc. These can be cut up, divided between students who have to try to use them in a simple pub / restaurant role-play. (2) The same phrases + others arrranged in a table of functions
 
 
 

 

 
 
 
Restaurant Language Quiz 1
Fifteen-question multiple-choice quiz.
 
 

 

Material from other sources

 
 
 
Interview: eating in restaurants external link icon
Includes what the speaker looks for in restaurants
 
 
Restaurant dialogue external link icon
Restaurant role play - choosing dishes, ordering, getting bill.
 
 

 

 
Video
 
 
Robot Chef external link icon
In-depth study of a short BBC news item about robot chefs and waiting staff in a restaurant in China. Focuses on vocabulary.Includes exercise.
 
 

 

 
 
 
Inside Out Student's Book Advanced book cover 
Inside Out Student's Book Advanced
Unit 2 Taste  Pages 18 - 19  Restaurant review
Reading in two parts about a nice family-run restaurant that is bought by an entrepeneur and spoiled.
 
Unit 2 Taste  Pages 20 - 21  Favourite resaurants
Students prepare and tell their partners about their favourite restaurant
 
Unit 2 Taste  Page 21   Restaurant review
Write a restaurant review for newspaper
 
 
Inside Out Student's Book Intermediate book cover 
Inside Out Student's Book Intermediate
Unit 12 Basics  Pages 100 - 103
Listening: restaurnat dialogue; language for eating out; correct dialogue with inapropriate language; role play
 
 
New Inside Out Student's Book Advanced book cover 
New Inside Out Student's Book Advanced
Unit 2 Taste  Pages 16 - 17  Restaurant review
Split reading in four parts about an unusual restaurant that changed for the worse.
 
Unit 2 Taste  Page 19   Anecdote
Students tell partners about the last time they ate out and then write a review of the restaurant they described
 
 
New Inside Out Student's Book Upper Intermediate book cover 
New Inside Out Student's Book Upper Intermediate
Unit 6 Eat  Page 56   Bad experiences in restaurants
 
Unit 6 Eat  Page 57   How to do restaurant sign language
 
Unit 6 Eat  Page 58   Interview with a restaurant critic
 
Unit 6 Eat  Page 58   Anecdote: your favourite restaurant
Speaking with questions cues.
 
Unit 6 Eat  Page 64   Useful phrases (restaurants)
 
 
Just Listening and Speaking Upper Intermediate book cover 
Just Listening and Speaking Upper Intermediate
Listening 11 - What people like to eat  Pages 30 - 31
Five people talk about the kind of restaurants they like.
 
 
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Real Listening & Speaking Three
Unit 2 Can I take your coat?  Pages 14 - 17
Language for ordering and describing food and drink, deciding who pays and complaining. Understanding (spoken) restaurant reviews
 
 
The Great Train Robbery
 
<i>Black Mirror</i>
 
Escape from the canyon