APCFGSCUI(M0179): AEA4 SERVING AT A RESTAURANT

TASK 1 - SPEAKING AND VOCABULARY

a. What are common starters, main courses and desserts on a menu in our country? What about your favourite restaurant?

b. Look at the parts of the menu. What dishes would you order?

c. Ordering a meal. Listen to two people at a restaurant. Answer the questions.

1 What do they order?

2 Look at the menu again. How much does the meal cost?

3. Look at these phrases for ordering a meal. Who says them: one of the customers (C) or the waiter (W)?

Here is the menu.

Can I get you anything to drink first?

I’d like a bottle of water, please.

I don’t want a starter.

I’ll have a seafood special.

I’d also like a dessert.

Are you ready to order?

I’d like a four-cheese pizza.

That was delicious.

Can I get you anything else?

Could we have the bill, please?

d WORDBUILDING British or American English

Read these parts of the conversation in the restaurant:

‘The garlic fries are really good. Do you call them chips in England?’

‘Could we have the bill, please?’ ‘He means the check.’

Some words are different in British English and American English: fries/chips, bill/check. Find out how these other British English words are said in American English.

a. lift

b. cutlery

c. starter

d. aubergine

e. ice lolly

f. take-away

g. sweets

TASK 2 - Reading

HOW TO PROPERLY SET UP A TABLE IN A RESTAURANT

a - Read these instructions about setting up a table and the vocabulary related to it and draw the table setting according to the directions.

Follow these steps to create a formal dinner table setting:

Begin by placing an ironed tablecloth on the table.
A serving plate goes in the center of the place setting. A charger plate can also be used beneath the serving plate.
A bread plate should be placed to the top left of the serving plate. Place a butter knife on top of the bread plate with the blade facing down, and the handle towards the right.
Flatware on the left side of the serving plate begins with the salad fork on the outside, and the dinner fork on the inside.
Flatware on the right side of the serving plate, from the inside out, will consist of a dinner knife, salad knife, soup spoon, and tea spoon.
All flatware should be evenly spaced, and the bottoms should line up with the bottom of the serving plate.
The dessert spoon should be placed directly above the serving plate, in horizontal alignment with the handle towards the right.
Place a water glass above the dinner knife.
Place the white wine glass below the water glass and slightly to the right.
Place the red wine glass above the white wine glass and slightly to the right.
A cup and saucer should be placed above the soup spoon and slightly to the right.

From Webrestaurant Store.

b - What differences can you see between the text before and the formal setting in next picture? Write them down.

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TASK 3 - Grammar

Passive sentences

a. Identify 3 sentences in the passive voice in the previous exercise, task 2a.

b. Refresh how to make the passive sentences.

c. Look at the images and write the passive sentences that correspond. Click here.

d. Choose between the active or the passive voice in this exercise.

e. Practice with this exercise

f. Can you transform these sentences into the passive voice?

h. Passive voice with auxiliary verbs.

TASK 4 - Speaking

Your teacher will show you different pictures of table settings. In pairs, one student faces the board and describes the setting, the other student sits facing the opposite wall. Compare pictures.