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Reply to Ivush´s restaurant lesson question
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douglas
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Reply to Ivush´s restaurant lesson question
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I can �t seem to reply to your post so here is anew one.
What I have done is download some real menus off the internet and role-played where I was the waiter and they had to order.
Being the waiter I could through in difficult questions if I wanted to.
I want to expand this next time by printing out pictures of the items on the menu and "serving" the items that students order. It will be fun to see the look on their faces when they see what they really ordered. Another variation is to bring them the wrong thing and make them try to correct it.
Just an Idea.
EDIT: I really like Cheezels additonal ideas to the role-playing--thanks |
9 May 2009
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cheezels
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hmmmm I copied and pasted here instead... because when I went into the thread my post was very narrow and very long!!!!!
Drama is definitely the fun way to go... BOURNA has a whole range of
AWESOME menus for loads of different restaurants... you could split
your class into different types of restaurants and customers.... also I
would give out some "character cards"
ie:
grumpy customer,
annoying waiter who hovers around the table and always asks if
everything is all right, customer who is picky with their food, customer
who keeps changing their order, complaining customer, customer who is
vegetarian and wants something taken out of their order, customer who
is watching their weight so wants a low fat meal, waiter who keeps
mixing up the orders, customer who orders a lot because they are really
hungry! (Character cards are really fun to work with as the students
really get into being "their character"... it makes it even more funny
when the students keep their character a secret so that they can
surprise others in their group with their demands or behaviour and see
how the rest of the group reacts....)
And of course all of this
takes place in whatever restaurant you chose... (they can have time to
prepare their short dialogue: entering, being seated, ordering,
receiving their meals, (complaining), asking for the bill, getting the
bill, paying etc....
Then each group presents their show....
I
have done this and it was a hilarious lesson, but importantly every
student had fun while at the same time practising their speaking!
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9 May 2009
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ivush
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To Douglas and Cheezels: Excellent tips, sweethearts! I will definitely try these. Thank you very much!
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9 May 2009
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aftab57
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I can´t seem to reply to your thread either at the moment. Here are some more links.
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9 May 2009
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