1. Discussion points
1. Do you ever order out from a restaurant? What kind of foods?
2. What types of take-out food do you enjoy eating?
3. What's the worst experience you ever had at a restaurant?
4. What is your favorite appetizer?
5. How many different types of salad dressing can you name?
6. How have your eating habits changed over the years?
2. Give the plural of
A. A pin, a baby, a volcano, a knife, a roof, a queue, a bath, a berry, a valley, a
century, a salmon, a taxi, a watch, a virtuoso, a lily, a woodworm, a woman, a
German, a foot, a tooth, a sheep, a ship, a fish, a swine, a mongoose, a deer, an
aircraft, an offspring, a Swiss, a Japanese, a Portuguese.
3. Put the sentences in the correct order and act out the dialogue:
__ Would you like to order dessert?
__ How about the table at the window?
__ Enjoy your meal.
__ Here’s the menu. Would you like something to drink?
__ Would you like to order now, sir?
__ Could I have the bill, please?
__ I’ll have the soup and the beef.
1 Have you got a table for two, please?
__ It is nice.
__ No, thanks.
__ An ice cream form, please.
__ Here are the money. Keep the change.
4. Choose the correct options to complete the conversation. In two items, both
words are correct.
A: Do want an apple?
B: No, thanks. I don’t eat 1 many / much fruit.
A: Why not? 2 A lot of / Much fruit is good for you.
B: I know, but I prefer other food. And I eat 3 many /a lot of pasta and pizzas. Do
you eat 4 a lot of / much Italian food?
A: Yes, I do. It’s delicious. Are there 5 a lot of / many Italian restaurants in your
town?
B: No, 6 not a lot of / not many.
5. Complete the sentences with these food verbs.
cook eat make serve smell taste

1 All the street chefs the food by hand.
2 Then they it on a real fire.
3 So when you walk up the street, you can the food in the distance.
4 The chefs the noodles with a hot sauce.
5 They delicious.
6 I can them at any time of day – for breakfast, lunch or dinner!
6. Match the word in A with its explanation in B:
A. 1) Quality B. a) no good
2) abundant b) large qualities
3) customary c) to add to a dish to make it
look attractive
4) distinctive d) how good or bad something is
5) to garnish e) quickly
6) interior f) usual
7) inferior g) inside of a building
8) relatively h) unusual
9) rapidly i) comparatively
10) ice-cream j) frozen
11) dessert k) very sweet and delicious meal
12) to book l) a table for two
7. Use the words below to fill in gaps
Favorite / table cloth / go / few / corners / delicious / order / restaurant / pleasant

/ but/ quick / lovely

I like to eat out and I go to a (1) for dinner twice a
week. I usually (2) with my husband, Bill.
Our (3) restaurant is an Indian restaurant in Cleveland
Street in Surry Hills. It is not very big (4) it is always busy.
There are only a (5) tables in the restaurant and there is a
white (6) on each table. There is also a vase with
(7) flowers on each table. There are plants in the
(8). We usually (9) hot curries
and eat them with rice. The food is (10) so we enjoy it very
much. The service is (11) and friendly. Bill and I always
have a (12) evening at our favorite restaurant.
8. Read the sentences and write four questions to each sentence:
1. The wine list tells you what region your wine comes from.
2. We serve traditional Italian meals.
3. I would like to order something in your restaurant.