restaurant english
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An ESL lesson on how to order food in a restaurantTRANSCRIPT
Let’s go out to eat
in a restaurant!
Menu• Starter/First Course• Appetizer
– Soup• Eg tomato soup
mushroom soupchicken
soup– Prawn cocktail– Avocado salad
Menu• Main course/Entree
– Fish – Chicken– - pork– Beef– Lamb– Lasagne– Vegetarian pasta
Menu• Side dishes
Accompaniments– Vegetables – Salad– - French fries– Roast potatoes– Garlic bread
Menu• Dessert
– Lemon meringue– Chocolate mousse– Ice-cream– Fruit salad– Cheese board
What do you say?• Waiter• Waitress• Server
• Customers
Excuse me, where is the restroom?Bathroom/toilet
Arriving at the Restaurant
Waiter• Good evening,
Sir/Madam.• Table for 2?• Come this way.• Here you are.• Would you like
something to drink?
Customers• Good evening!
• Yes please.• Can we have a menu
please?• Two glasses of red wine,
please.
Ordering the Food
Waiter• Here are your
drinks.• Are you ready
to order?
• Would you like anything else?
• Enjoy your drinks.
Customer 1• Yes, I’ll have tomato
soup to start. Then fish and chips and salad.
Customer 2• And I’d like prawn
cocktail to start.Then roast beefand vegetables.
• That’s all thank you.
Serving the Meal
Waiter• Here are your
starters. Tomato soup for you,Sir.
• And prawncocktail for youMadam.
• Enjoy your food.
Customer 1• Thank you. It looks
delicious!
Customer 2• Thank you!
Taking away empty plates
Waiter• How was the
food?
• And here areyour main courses.
• Enjoy your meal!
Customers• Great, thank you.
• Thank you!
After the Main Course
Waiter• How was the
food?
• Would you likedessert and coffee?
Customers• Great, thank you.• Delicious!
• Yes, we’ll both have lemon meringue and coffee please.
After the Coffee
Waiter• Would you like
anything else?
(He takes away the dirty dishes)
• Here you are.
Customers• No, just the bill please.
• Thank you. We enjoyed our meal. Keep the change!
Complaints/Problems
Waiter• Sorry!• We’ll give you
another meal.• The meal will
be free of charge.• You must wash the
dishes!• You can pay later.
Customers• The food is cold!• My glass is dirty!• There’s a fly in my soup!• My meat is raw!• I have no money!
. . . and where do they go after the restaurant, I
wonder??