Making a Reservation

A2 · Elementary57 minTravelLesson 5 of 8 · Outline

Aims

Goal: book a table by phone — day, time, number of people, your name — and handle a full restaurant or a change of plans.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: A table for tonight

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: Booking a Table

    Read a 136-word text about Booking a Table

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Reservation Words

    7 items

  3. Practice7 min

    Practice: Reservation Sentences

    Gap-fill exercise, 5 items

  4. Practice7 min

    Practice: Fix the Reservation Sentences

    Error-correction exercise, 5 items

  5. Dialogue10 min

    Dialogue: Book a Table

    Role-play: You're calling a restaurant to make a reservation (8 lines)

  6. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Your mission: book it by phone

    3 discussion questions

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Target vocabulary

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