Sarah April 2025 A2 Pre-Intermediate Level 60 minutes / I hour
Lesson Type: Vocabulary
Lesson Topic: Topic 1: At a restaurant
Restaurant terminology
Lesson Aims: Lesson Outcomes:
By the end of the lesson, students will be better able to… By the end of the lesson, students will have…
1. Use nouns to describe a restaurant and be better prepared to order 1. practised saying and pronouncing the new words, written the new
food or drinks in English at a restaurant using the new words that they words, and practised role-playing placing an order in a restaurant.
learn in the lesson.
2. They should be able to better identify the words when they are written
down, understand the meaning of the words when they are spoken and
pronounce the words when they are practising speaking.
Target vocabulary:
1. menu
2. restaurant
3. waiter
4. waitress
5. tip
6. bill
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, 7. dish
8. dessert
9. main course
10. drink
Anticipated difficulties: Suggested solutions:
Include one relating to L1/age/level of the students and one for the 10 words
(meaning, form, or pronunciation). 1. In the Warmer I will ask the students who has been to an English-
speaking restaurant. We will have a short discussion on their favourite
1. Some students may have encountered these words before in an English places to eat out.
restaurant setting, and others may have not. Because of this, there may
be different levels of understanding in the classroom due to learner’s 2. In the Introduction I will begin by refreshing the memory of the
different life experiences. students as to what a noun is i.e. naming words. We will practise by
naming and drawing nouns on the whiteboard. I will also be asking
2. Many of these nouns may not be present in the children’s L1. They may Concept Checking Questions during the Presentation to be sure that
not be familiar with the words. students understand the meaning of the target vocabulary words.
3. There may be some children in the class who have forgotten what a 3. This difficulty will also be addressed in solution #2 when we start by
noun is. refreshing nouns in the Introduction i.e. naming words.
4. The students in this class are from China. Chinese languages don’t 4. I will carefully pronounce each word and ask the students to chant each
generally have specific sounds that are similar to the English sounds for word with me. When writing the words on the whiteboard, each word
“l”, “r”, “v”, “w” and the “th” digraph. Because of this, students may will have its phonemic spelling and stress-points for pronunciation
struggle with the words “waiter”, “waitress”, “bill”, “restaurant” and highlighted.
“dish.” They might struggle to say them or could become frustrated or
disheartened.
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