Lesson Overview
This A1 ESL lesson explores the topic of restaurants, helping students build the practical English they need to order food, make a reservation, and ask for the bill.
Learners begin by reviewing common restaurant vocabulary and objects, then practise useful functional language through realistic dialogues and role plays. They learn how to make a reservation, order food and drinks, and pay for their meal, with key language provided for each situation.
The lesson also includes fun speaking activities such as Agree or Disagree and This or That, giving students plenty of opportunities to talk about their restaurant preferences using simple, natural English.
Through a range of practical activities, students develop their confidence using English in everyday restaurant situations.
- Restaurant: Key Words
- Restaurant: Annoyances; Tasks
- How to Make a Reservation
- How to Make a Reservation: Audio
- How to Order: Mexican
- How to Order: Pasta
- How to Pay: Audio
- Agree or Disagree?
- This or That?
Homework
There is an excellent homework task to supplement this awesome A1 ESL lesson plan on restaurants. Students are challenged to write detailed answers to topic-based questions. Activity layout:
- Questions: Writing task.
