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Restaurant Unit: ESL Lesson for Adults

From the menu to the bill: practical restaurant English plus a real conversation about food and food culture.

Age
Ages 18+
Level
A2–B2
Skill
Vocabulary · Speaking
Time
45 min
Format
Teacher guide
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What's in the pack

5 free resources from the site, ready for the board or the printer.

A 45-minute lesson

One way to run the pack as a full lesson. Swap any step for your coursebook's own activity.

  1. 5min

    1. Warm-up

    Food words: in pairs, plan the perfect three-course meal from the word list.

    Food: words and pictures →
  2. 10min

    2. Present

    Some / any on the board with a fridge check: 'Is there any milk? There are some eggs.' Then the key ordering phrases.

  3. 15min

    3. Speak

    Restaurant role play with the A/B cards and a menu the class writes together.

    Ordering at a restaurant →
  4. 10min

    4. Practise

    The B1 food questions in groups made with the group maker; each group finds the most unusual dish anyone has eaten.

    Discussion questions: Food →
  5. 5min

    5. Wrap-up

    Three polite phrases for when something goes wrong (cold soup, wrong order), practised in pairs.

Total: 45 minutes

Three extra practice tasks

Written for this theme, no printing needed. Use them as fillers, homework ideas or a second lesson.

  1. 1. Restaurant review

    Learners write a five-sentence online review of a real place: food, service, price, stars.

    Model languageThe pasta was delicious, but we waited forty minutes. Three stars.

  2. 2. Recipe swap

    Each learner explains a simple dish from their country step by step; partners take notes and ask questions.

    Model languageFirst, you fry the onions. Then you add some rice.

  3. 3. Dinner party planner

    Groups plan a dinner for six guests with different needs (vegan, allergy, child) and present the menu.

    Model languageWe'll make a vegetable curry, but not too spicy for the children.