Unit 5: Restaurants

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Word List

asparagus
cheeseburger
chef
Chinese (food)
convenient
décor
deserved
downtown
empty
flavor
French (food)
fries
heat (v.)
hurry
immigrants
Japanese (food)
Korean (food)
lighting
Mexican (food)
milkshake
part-time
polite
salt
server
simple
starving
Thai (food)
tip
vanilla
vegetarian
baked potato
be sick of (something)
credit card
eat out
fast food
feel like (eating something)
for a change
hot sauce
junk food
leave a tip
make sure
stay home
the only trouble
wait on (someone)
What's the occasion?
your treat

Vocabulary Worksheet

‣ Use the words in the box to complete the crossword.

a. chef
b. convenient
c. décor
d. downtown
e. eat out
f. empty
g. flavor
h. polite
i. starving
j. tip

ACROSS	DOWN
2. useful, easy, quick to do _____	1. the center of a city _____
6. having good manners _____	3. style and design of a room _____
8. extra money you give to a server _____	4. very hungry _____
10. the taste of something _____	5. to have a meal at a restaurant _____
	7. containing nothing _____
	9. a cook at a restaurant _____

Answer Key

What are your favorite kinds of restaurants? Check (x) your answers and compare them with a partner.

_____ Thai
_____ French
_____ Mexican
_____ Korean
_____ Japanese
_____ Chinese
_____ fast food
_____ other: ___

Listening 1

‣ Where do the people decide to eat? Listen and circle the correct answer.

- a. Chinese restaurant
- b. Fast Fried Chicken
- a. Quick Burger
- b. Pizza Pit
- a. home
- b. out
- a. steak house
- b. Korean restaurant
- a. seafood restaurant
- b. pizza restaurant
- a. Mexican restaurant
- b. Japanese restaurant
- a. fast food restaurant
- b. French restaurant
- a. home
- b. vegetarian restaurant

Listening 2

‣ Task 1

People are ordering food in a restaurant. What does each person order? Listen and check (x) the correct picture.

- a.
- b.
- a.
- b.
- a.
- b.
- a.
- b.
- a.
- b.
- a.
- b.

‣ Task 2

Listen again. Are these statements true or false? Check (x) the correct answer.

	True	False
1. The customer is not very hungry.	⁽¹⁾	⁽²⁾
2. The customer loves fries.	⁽³⁾_____	⁽⁴⁾_____
3. The customer hates spicy food.	⁽⁵⁾_____	⁽⁶⁾_____
4. The customer can't have salt on the fries.	⁽⁷⁾_____	⁽⁸⁾_____
5. The customer wants cold pie.	⁽⁹⁾_____	⁽¹⁰⁾_____
6. The customer wants lots of sugar in the milkshake.	⁽¹¹⁾_____	⁽¹²⁾_____

Listening 3

‣ Task 1

People are talking about restaurants they ate at recently. Listen and check (x) their opinions about each restaurant.

	Good	Not good
1.
the location	⁽¹⁾	⁽²⁾
the interior	⁽³⁾_____	⁽⁴⁾_____
the menu	⁽⁵⁾_____	⁽⁶⁾_____
the service	⁽⁷⁾_____	⁽⁸⁾_____
the prices	⁽⁹⁾_____	⁽¹⁰⁾_____
2.
the location	⁽¹¹⁾_____	⁽¹²⁾_____
the interior	⁽¹³⁾_____	⁽¹⁴⁾_____
the menu	⁽¹⁵⁾_____	⁽¹⁶⁾_____
the food	⁽¹⁷⁾_____	⁽¹⁸⁾_____
the prices	⁽¹⁹⁾_____	⁽²⁰⁾_____
3.
the location	⁽²¹⁾_____	⁽²²⁾_____
the interior	⁽²³⁾_____	⁽²⁴⁾_____
the menu	⁽²⁵⁾_____	⁽²⁶⁾_____
the food	⁽²⁷⁾_____	⁽²⁸⁾_____
the prices	⁽²⁹⁾_____	⁽³⁰⁾_____
4.
the location	⁽³¹⁾_____	⁽³²⁾_____
the interior	⁽³³⁾_____	⁽³⁴⁾_____
the menu	⁽³⁵⁾_____	⁽³⁶⁾_____
the food	⁽³⁷⁾_____	⁽³⁸⁾_____
the prices	⁽³⁹⁾_____	⁽⁴⁰⁾_____

‣ Task 2

Listen again. Did each person leave a good tip? Check (x) the correct answer.

- yes
- no
- yes
- no
- yes
- no
- yes
- no

✺ Pronunciation

Reduction of want to

Pronunciation Help
How we spell it	How we say it
want to	wanna

‣ Task 1

Listen and repeat.

1.
A: What do you want to eat?
B: I want to eat pizza.
2.
A: Where do you want to go?
B: I want to go to the Thai restaurant.

‣ Task 2

Read the sentences to a partner. Be sure to reduce want to.

✺ Dictation

‣ Task 1

Listen to the conversation. Write the missing words.

A: What do you ⁽¹⁾_____ ⁽²⁾_____ ⁽³⁾_____ tonight?
B: Let's go out to eat.
A: Where do you ⁽⁴⁾_____ ⁽⁵⁾_____ ⁽⁶⁾_____?
B: I don't know. What about you? What do you want to eat?
A: I want to go to the ⁽⁷⁾_____ ⁽⁸⁾_____.
B: I'm tired of Italian food.
A: So, what do you ⁽⁹⁾_____ ⁽¹⁰⁾_____ ⁽¹¹⁾_____, then?
B: Let's order take-out Chinese!

‣ Task 2

Practice the conversation with a partner. Be sure to reduce want to.

✺ Conversation

Work in pairs. Imagine you are meeting your partner for dinner. Talk about Where you want to go and what you want to eat.

Answer Key

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