restaurants? What is your favorite restaurant? Why?
• Distribute the restaurant’s menu, profile, or reviews. Play Vocabulary Bingo with the vocabulary in any of these texts (see Appendix A).
• Distribute the restaurant’s profile. Form pairs to answer questions based on the profile: What is the restaurant’s address? What is its phone number? When is it open for lunch? When is it open for dinner? What is its website address? What is its email address? What is its Facebook address? Ask the pairs to create at least three additional questions based on the profile.
• Distribute the restaurant’s profile or menu. Play Classroom Jeopardy based on facts found in the text (see Appendix B).
• Distribute cards containing the names of menu items and other cards containing images or brief descriptions of these menu items. Form pairs to match the cards.
• Distribute copies of the restaurant’s menu. Form pairs to answer questions based on the menu: What is the cheapest food item? What is the cheapest beverage? What is the most expensive food item? What is the most expensive beverage? How much does [a specific item] cost? Ask the pairs to create at least three additional questions based on the menu.
• Again using the restaurant’s menu, form groups to create and perform role plays based on the menu. Distribute cards with different roles to each group member. Here are examples of the roles your students can play:
You are a server, and several of the menu items are not available.
You are a server who is in a very bad mood.
You are a hungry customer who is a strict vegetarian.
You are a hungry customer who has a lot of questions about the menu.
You are a hungry customer who can spend only 10 dollars.
• Again using the menu, form pairs to imagine three things:
You are going to this restaurant for lunch.