At a Restaurant

Level Elementary

Age Group 10 – 15 years

Time 30 minutes

AimsTo practise reading a menu, restaurant vocabulary, and conversational skills

To practise basic arithmetic skills

DescriptionThe children read some dialogues that takes place in a restaurant, and using the menu, calculate the customer’s bills.

Preparation Make a copy of the Worksheet provided in the next page for each child.

Instructions

1. Pre-teach or revise any vocabulary you feel necessary. Draw a picture of a restaurant scene like the one below on the board and elicit the words waiter, customer, menu and bill.

2. Give out the worksheets and let the children read the instructions. Check that they have to read the dialogue, write out the bill (looking at the menu for the prices), and find the total.

3. Once the children start working, go around encouraging them. If they have a problem, get them to help each other out first, but you can help them if necessary.

4. As they finish, ask them to check their answers in pairs before you go through them with the whole class.

Follow-up This activity leads nicely into a restaurant role play.

Variation 1 Ask the children to work out the individual bills.

Variation 2You can create another worksheet for another situation such as a supermarket, or buying clothes, or at the fair.

At a Restaurant

Read this dialogue, look at the menu, and work out the customer’s bill.

Waiter Good Morning

Children Hello, can we have the menu, please?

Waiter Yes, here you are.

Roshan Can I have a pizza with extra cheese, please?

Sushmita And I’d like a burger with extra olives, please?

Rakhi And I want a pasta and a salad, please?

Waiter Anything to drink?

Roshan Orange juice, please.

Suhmita Me too.

Rakhi A Coke, please

Waiter Large, medium or small?

Rakhi Large, please

(Later)

Waiter Would you like a dessert?

Roshan I’d like a banana split, please

Sushmita Can I have some chocolate cake, please?

Rakhi Nothing for me, thanks.

(Later)

Waiter Here’s your bill

Menu

Main Courses Drinks

Soup Rs. 30 Coke

Fish and Chips Rs. 70 Large Rs. 75

Steak and Chips Rs. 80 Medium Rs. 50

Sausage and Beans Rs. 80 Small Rs. 25

Steak and salad Rs. 90 Orange Juice Rs. 70

Coffee Rs. 30

Pizzas Desserts

Cheese and Tomato Rs. 120 Cheesecake Rs. 45

Ham and Tomato Rs. 130 Chocolate Cake Rs. 50

Ham and Mushroom Rs. 90 Ice cream Rs. 65

Extra Olives Rs. 20 Banana Split Rs. 45

Salad Rs. 50 Fresh Fruit Rs. 40

Extra Chips Rs. 20