Let's Eat Out
This restaurant ESL lesson gives students practical speaking practice for ordering food. Learners identify foods and food trucks, ask 'What can you buy?' and respond politely to 'Would you like...?' They design a food-truck menu with prices, take turns as waiter and customer, and act out paying for an order.
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Lesson format
2 × 45 minutes
Level
Elementary
Age group
Ages 8–11
Main focus
Speaking first
What students will learn
Lesson flow
Children mime eating foods and guess food trucks, watch a food-truck video answering 'What can you buy?', and match trucks to foods with a chant. The second lesson roleplays ordering politely ('Would you like pizza?' / 'Yes, I would.'), makes a Food Truck Menu craft pricing 3 items, and performs a restaurant skit taking and paying for an order.
Target language
- • 'What is it?'
- • 'What can you buy?'
- • 'Would you like ___?' / 'Yes, I would'
- • Food and price vocabulary
Key vocabulary
- menu
- order
- waiter
- restaurant
- starter
- main course
- dessert
- bill
- table
- reservation
Speaking questions students answer
- • What is it?
- • What can you buy?
- • Would you like a hamburger?
- • Where is the ketchup?
- • Would you like a drink?
Recommended teaching contexts
Why this lesson works
The lesson follows a clear progression: Mime and guess foods and trucks, practise 'Would you like...?' politely, make a Food Truck Menu and roleplay ordering. Teachers can open the materials and start immediately, while students move from supported vocabulary practice to purposeful spoken English.