Unit 5 Vocabulary: Food & Ordering

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Lesson idea

Food and drink words, menu categories, and expressions for ordering food in a restaurant.

Key points

• Ordering: May I take your order? / Are you ready to order? / I'd like… / I'll have… / Anything to drink? / For here or to go?
• Offering: Would you like some…? → Yes, please. / No, thank you.
• Partitives: a bottle of water, a cup of coffee, a glass of juice, a piece of cake.
• Let me see. = I want to think (to get more time to answer).

Vocabulary

Lesson questions (14)

1. Soup and shrimp are on the menu under ____.
   Answer: appetizers
2. Apple pie, cheesecake and ice cream are ____.
   Answer: desserts
3. Coffee, tea and fresh fruit juice are ____.
   Answer: beverages
4. I don't eat meat, but I love ____ like shrimp and fish.
   Answer: seafood
5. Lettuce, carrots and cucumbers are ____.
   Answer: vegetables
6. On the menu, all main courses come with ____.
   Answer: baked potato or rice
7. Fish cooked over hot water is ____.
   Answer: steamed
8. "For here or to go?" – "To go, please." The customer wants ____.
   Answer: take-out food
9. Worker: "May I take your order?" Customer: "____"
   Answer: I'd like the chicken sandwich.
10. "Would you like some dessert?" – "____"
    Answer: Yes, please.
11. Choose the correct partitive: a ____ of coffee
    Answer: cup
12. Choose the correct partitive: a ____ of cake
    Answer: piece
13. The customer says "Let me see." because he ____.
    Answer: needs time to think
14. "Here are your shrimp, sir. ____!" (wishing enjoyment)
    Answer: Enjoy

More lessons in Unit 5: Is There Any Ice Cream?

• Grammar: Count/Noncount Nouns, Some/Any, Would Like, Too & Enough
• Reading & Writing: Globalization of Foods
• Unit 5 Test