Reading the Menu

A2 · Elementary57 minTravelLesson 2 of 8 · Outline

Aims

Goal: understand a menu in English — the sections, the dishes — and ask the waiter about anything you don't recognise.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: What's in this dish?

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: Looking at the Menu

    Read a 125-word text about Looking at the Menu

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Menu Words

    7 items

  3. Practice7 min

    Practice: Match Menu Sections

    Matching exercise, 5 items

  4. Practice7 min

    Practice: Menu Sentences

    Gap-fill exercise, 5 items

  5. Dialogue10 min

    Dialogue: Ask About the Menu

    Role-play: You're looking at the menu and asking the waiter questions (6 lines)

  6. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Your mission: decode the menu

    3 discussion questions

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Target vocabulary

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