Sub-topic 4: El mejor restaurante de la ciudad

Suggested Lexical Content

Note:

The vocabulary to describe a place and people has been studied in the previous lessons and in the previous level (A2.1); also, the vocabulary to talk about food and drinks. It is under the teacher discretion review the vocabulary.

The vocabulary presented in this section will appear in the developments of the different activities.

Specific Learning Objectives

After completing this subtopic, the student will be able to:

1. Understand brochures promoting restaurants.
2. Understand short, simple descriptive paragraphs about a restaurant.
3. Understand short emails about a restaurant. 
4. Make a brochure to promote a restaurant.
5. Write descriptive paragraphs about a restaurant.
6. Write emails complaining about a restaurant's service.
7. Write electronic messages suggesting a restaurant.
8. Write flyers to promote a restaurant.
9. Understand simple dialogues related to restaurants.
10. Understand when individuals describe a place, a person, a food or a drink, and a service provided.
11. Understand expressions of courtesy used in a restaurant.
12. Understand simple vocabulary related to activities carried out in a restaurant.
13. Understand ads promoting a restaurant.
14. Use courtesy words and phrases to request a meal or drink.
15. Offer a meal or drink.
16. Speak of preference in relation to food and drink.
17. Describe a place, the dishes, and the service provided.
18. Give thanks for a service provided.
19. Express conformity or excitement for the food, place, and the service provided.
20. Deny or accept a particular dish.
21. Discuss the pricing of food and beverages.
22. Sustain simple dialogues that take place in a restaurant.

Suggested Activities

Written Comprehension

Step 1

The teacher will ask the students complete the exercise #51. In this exercise the students have to understand 2 paragraphs where a restaurant is describe; additional to the description, the students have to complete a written comprehension exercise based on the description.

Written Expression 

Step 1

The teacher will ask the students complete the exercise #52. In this exercise the students have to write 2 paragraphs based on four pictures of a restaurant.

 

Oral Expression and Comprehension

Step 1

With anticipation, the teacher will ask the students prepare an oral presentation where they will describe their favorite restaurant. In this presentation they should include:

The name of the restaurant.

The location

How it look inside and outside.

What you can find inside and outside (furniture, decorations, places, etc.)

The kind of food they serve (7 dishes minimums)

The kind of drinks they serve (5 minimums)

The kind of dissert they serve (3 minimums)

The kind of service they offer (3 minimums)

The prices

Describe the waitress (5 descriptions minimums)

Stay why their classmates should visit this specific restaurant.

 

Note: The students have to think in a wonderful five stars restaurant, because they will compete in the following class session with their classmates. (See the following step)

 

Step 2

Been all the students ready with their presentation (step 1) the teacher will group them in groups of five.

The teacher will place 5 chairs in front of the class forming a semicircle.

The teacher will ask one of the group pass to the front. They have to sit down on the chair.

The teacher will introduce to the class the five students, who are in the front, as a representative of a restaurant. They reached to the place (the classroom) with the intention of convince the teacher (who is a famous person in the world) to visit their restaurant. The idea is that each student will demonstrate to the famous person that he/she have the best restaurant in the city, through the point that he/she prepare for the oral presentation in the previous step.

The teacher will have control of the student’s participation and will ask questions to them to guide the discussion, for example:

¿Cuál de los restaurantes de ustedes tiene la mejor ubicación y por qué?

¿Cuál prepara la mejor comida?

¿Cuál tiene el mejor servicio?

¿Por qué debo visitar tu restaurante?

At the end of the discussion, the teacher will select a student that was not presenting, and will ask him/her ¿Cuál de los restaurantes de los que hablaron los alumnos participantes es el mejor? The selected student has to name the restaurant, name the student who present the restaurant and why it is the best. This should be in Spanish. The teacher has to mention to the class, with anticipation, that he will ask question to the rest of the class after each discussion.  

The dynamic will continue until all the group participates.

Written Expression and Comprehension and Oral Expression

Step 1

With anticipation, the teacher will group the students in group of four.

The teacher will ask to each group bring to class two Bristol board; (one to work and the other one in case any mistake on the first one) and markers.

Step 2

Being in class, the teacher will ask the students to separate in groups (They are already grouped).

The teacher will ask to each group create a poster (using the Bristol board and the markers) where they will promote a restaurant (real or invented). In the ad they most include:

Name of the restaurant

Location

Opening hours

The kind of food and drink they offer (menu)

The services they offer (Free delivering, Wi-Fi, …)

A brief description of the restaurant.

Contact (phone, email, …)

Additional information

 

Note: The students should be creative when they create the ad of the restaurant.

 

Written Comprehension and Oral Expression

Step 1

With anticipation, the teacher will place printed number on the wall, around the class; place where the groups stick their ad. The amount of number will be based on the amount of groups of students.

The teacher will ask to each group stick their ad under one of the number found on the wall.   

The teacher will ask to the students go around the class to see all the ads and select the one of his/her preference. The teacher has to define the specific time that the students need to perform this step. 

After the students finish seeing all the ads, the teacher will select a student, randomly, and will ask him/her: ¿Cuál es el major restaurant y por qué? The selected student has to name the best restaurant among all the ads, and say why it is the best; this should happen in Spanish. The teacher will continue with this dynamic until most of the students participate.

Written Comprehension

Step 1

The teacher will ask the students complete the exercise #53 of the workbook. In this exercise the student should understand the content of a brochure of a restaurant. Additional to the brochures, the students have to complete a multiple choice comprehension exercise, based on it.

Written Expression

Step 1

With anticipation, the teacher will ask the students bring to class two folder sheets (one to work and the other one in case of a mistake).

Been in class, the teacher will ask the students to create a brochures of their favorite restaurant. The teacher will not allow the students to see the workbook.

The teacher will provide the students the different sections that they have cover in his/her brochures. The teacher will assist the students in the Spanish translation in case they don’t know a word.

Oral Expression

Step 1

With anticipation, the teacher will group the class in groups of three.

The teacher will divide the groups in two groups.

The teacher will ask to the first group, of groups, record a video where they will show a restaurant that offer an excellent service and food.

The teacher will ask to the second group, of groups, record a video where they will show a restaurant that offer a bad service and food.

For the recording, each group has to cover the following points:

 

Use courtesy words and phrases to request a meal or drink.

Offer a meal or drink.

Speak of preference in relation to food and drink.

Give thanks for a service provided.

Express conformity or excitement for the food, place, and the service provided.

Deny or accept a particular dish.

 

Note: Each group has to perform a role play (in the video) where they need to apply the previous points. In this role play, two students are customer and the other one is the waitress. They need to act as they are in a restaurant.

 

Oral Comprehension and Written Expression

Step 1

With anticipation, the teacher will instruct the students that he/she will show them the videos recording in the previous lesson. Also the teacher will tell them that they need to select one restaurant, from the videos, that has a bad service and one that has good service.

The students, acting that they was the costumer in the videos, they will write a email to the teacher expressing his/her complain about the restaurant that give bad service and suggest him/her the restaurant that provide a good service.

Written Comprehension

Step 1

The teacher will ask the students complete the exercise # 54. In this exercise, the students have to understand a story of a person that visited a bad restaurant and a good as well. Additional to the reading, they have to complete a comprehension exercise based on the reading.