🇬🇧 ✈️ Travel · Greetings and self-introductions (A1)

🍝 Ordering at a restaurant abroad

🎯 Get a table, order food, ask about the menu and pay

Use the usual 50-minute plan: warm-up → key phrases → challenges → role-play → discussion → wrap-up. Share this page on Zoom so the student can see the phrases, but keep "Your card" to yourself.

💬 Warm-up questions

What's your favorite restaurant?
Do you like trying new food?

🔑 Key phrases

A table for two, please.2人です。
Could I see the menu?メニューを見せてもらえますか？
What do you recommend?おすすめは何ですか？
I'll have the salmon.サーモンにします。
Could we get the check, please?お会計をお願いします。
Can I pay by card?カードで払えますか？

📚 Useful words

starter — 前菜
main course — メイン料理
side — 付け合わせ
tip — チップ
to go — 持ち帰り
allergic to — 〜アレルギー

⚡ Speaking challenges

Order a full meal: starter, main, drink.
Tell the waiter about an allergy and ask what's safe.
Complain politely: your soup is cold.
Explain what 'still or sparkling' means.

🎭 Role-play

A busy Italian restaurant in Sydney.

🧑‍🎓 Student's card

You and a friend want dinner. Ask for a recommendation, say one allergy, order, and pay.

🧑‍🏫 Your card (tutor)

Be a fast-talking waiter. Ask 'How would you like your steak?', 'Anything to drink?', 'Still or sparkling?'

🌀 Twist (halfway through): The kitchen ran out of the dish they ordered. They must choose something else.

🗣️ Discussion questions

Do you tip in Japan? What do you think about tipping?
What Japanese dish would you recommend to a tourist?
Have you had a bad restaurant experience?

📌 Homework

Look at an English menu online and choose a 3-course meal; write why英語のメニューをネットで見て、3品選び理由を書く