Grade: 8 (Students are in a foreign country taking English classes)
Preparation Language Objectives
Students will be able to orally produce restaurant and food vocabulary and sentence structures.
Learning Strategies: Class discussion, showing/watching/listening to examples,
creation of own content
Materials
Food pictures, dialogue samples, mobile device, Sock Puppets app
Motivation:
Ask students what their favorite restaurant is
Ask what dish they order Discuss how they order what they want (what vocab they use, what the waiter might ask, how formal the interaction is, how to get the bill, etc.)
Presentation:
Introduce common American restaurant foods and their names and descriptions. Discuss with the students the usual way they order food in their country and the similarities and differences with the American norm. Introduce the structures that are typically used (ex: Can I get…). Also explain billing expectations. Show examples using images and video/audio of dialogues/interactions found online.
Practice/Application:
Have students individually create a dialogue using the vocab and structures between a waiter and restaurant patron using the Sock Puppets app.
Review/Assessment:
Have each student show the rest of the class the dialogue they made with the app. Offer feedback (praise, corrections, etc.).
EXTENSION: Ask the students to get with a partner. Have each pair create a new dialogue together, but this time, tell the students it must include some type of “error” (billing mistake, wrong food brought to table, etc.) and that the dialogue has to address it.
