Eating Out
This restaurant ESL lesson teaches taste, texture, meal vocabulary and polite ordering language. Students classify foods as sweet, salty, sour or crunchy, discuss preferences and compare international dishes. They write food descriptions, survey popular choices and roleplay ordering a complete meal as customer and server.
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Lesson format
2 × 45 minutes
Level
Intermediate
Age group
Ages 12–14
Main focus
Speaking first
What students will learn
Lesson flow
Students guess covered foods by taste and texture, learn adjectives like sweet, salty, crunchy and sour matching them to foods, and drill 'Do you like broccoli? Is it delicious or disgusting?' The second lesson sorts foods by mealtime, discusses international food opinions from a video, roleplays ordering at a restaurant ('I'd like a burger and fries. Would you like water or soda?'), and surveys the class on popular foods to write conclusions.
Target language
- • Taste and texture adjectives (sweet, salty, crunchy, sour)
- • 'Do you like...?' / 'Is it delicious or disgusting?'
- • Comparative opinions
- • Food and restaurant vocabulary
Key vocabulary
- starter
- main course
- dessert
- menu
- waiter
- bill
- recommend
- delicious
- cuisine
- reservation
Speaking questions students answer
- • Do you like spicy food?
- • Is it sweet or sour?
- • What would you like to order?
- • Do you eat broccoli?
- • What's your favourite food from another country?
Recommended teaching contexts
Why this lesson works
The lesson follows a clear progression: Guess foods in a Mystery Bite! warm-up, ask 'Do you like...?' and describe taste and texture, write food descriptions and roleplay a restaurant order. Teachers can open the materials and start immediately, while students move from supported vocabulary practice to purposeful spoken English.