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The document provides vocabulary and language for describing restaurants and eating experiences. It includes terms for dining in or out, people involved like waiters, types of food and dishes, and adjectives for describing food. It also gives sample questions and answers for an IELTS speaking part 2 task about an unusual meal.

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Restaurants Lesson Notes 23 March 2023

The document provides vocabulary and language for describing restaurants and eating experiences. It includes terms for dining in or out, people involved like waiters, types of food and dishes, and adjectives for describing food. It also gives sample questions and answers for an IELTS speaking part 2 task about an unusual meal.

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GOLD - LIVE LESSONS

Restaurants
What you will learn:

Vocabulary
Part 2 Categories
Language to describe events
Part 2 Questions
Model Answers

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Test Your Vocabulary
Fill in each gap with ONE word.

1) We sometimes like to eat _____ in a nice restaurant.

2) I didn’t like that dish at all, actually it was really _________

Answers at bottom of PDF

Vocabulary: RESTAURANTS

Eating

To eat out =
1) to go to a restaurant
2) to eat in the outdoor area of a restaurant

To eat in =
1) to eat at home
2) to eat in the indoor area of a restaurant

To eat out in/at a restaurant

We usually say.
to have lunch / dinner
NOT
to eat lunch / dinner

To dine out = to go to a restaurant for dinner


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To takeaway = buy food at a restaurant but eat it at home.

To have a takeaway

Would you like to dine in or take away?

When you nish eating in a restaurant but there is still food left over, you
may want to take the food home, so you can say,

Can I have the food to go? (US)


Can I have a doggy bag?
Can I take this away? (UK)

People

Waiter / waitress / server

Friendly sta

To give a great service by giving extra, unexpected value =


1) To go the extra mile
2) To go out of their way to help
3) to bend over backwards to help

Terrible customer service


They couldn’t care less

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Food

Local delicacies (countable) = special food from a particular area


Local cuisine (countable/uncountable)

Special(s) of the day


Signature dish = a chef’s or restaurant’s most famous dish.

In a restaurant you can have the following dishes:

A starter (UK) / an appetizer (US)


The main course
A dessert or pudding (UK)

If food is good we can say…

Tasty (adj.)
Delicious (adj.)
Mouth-watering (adj.)
Succulent (a steak) (adj.)

To be cooked perfectly =
To be cooked to a turn (US)
To be cooked to ’t’ (UK)

If food is NOT good we can say…

Disgusting (adj.)
Foul (adj.)
Revolting (adj.)

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Eating

To wolf down = to eat quickly


To pig out = to eat a lot (too much)
To devour = to eat (when you are really hungry)

I am hungry
I am peckish = a little hungry
I’m starving = very hungry
I could eat a horse = very hungry
I’m famished / ravenous = very hungry

Unusual (adj.)

Unconventional
O beat
Out of the ordinary
O -the-wall
Quirky

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Teacher Joke 😂

What’s orange and sounds like a parrot?

Why did the skeleton go to the barbecue?

Answers at bottom of PDF

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Part 2 Categories
We can divide most Part 2 questions into 5 categories:

• People
• Places
• Events
• Activities
• Things

Examples of Categories of Past Part 2 Questions

Some questions may be in 2 categories, for example,

Describe a time when you lost something important


Event / Thing

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Part 2 Categories in the GOLD course

People
Person in unusual clothes (Clothes),
Person like to work with (Work),
Person help achieve a goal (Success)

Places
Place full of colours (Colours)

Events
Time you got up early (Routines),
Road trip taken (Road Trip)

Activities
Sport like to try (Sports)

Things
An incorrect piece of information (Information),
Item bought but rarely used (Shopping)

How can categories help us prepare?

It can help you generate ideas.

If you can identify the category, then you can identify the main points
you could talk about.

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Part 2 Questions
Which category would you put these questions into?

1. Describe an unusual meal you had

2. Describe a complaint that you made and you were satis ed with
the result

3. Describe a noisy place you have been to

4. Describe a restaurant that you enjoyed going to

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1. Describe an unusual meal you had
Thing and Event

2. Describe a complaint that you made and you were satis ed with the
result
Event

3. Describe a noisy place you have been to


Place

4. Describe a restaurant that you enjoyed going to


Place

EVENTS
The Anecdote approach!

When describing an event in Part 2 you can tell it like it was an


anecdote.

You can describe the following 3 things

• Setting
• People
• What Happened

Click on this link and listen to this anecdote and see this in action:

https://vimeo.com/810936443/7d44102188

Setting
On the bus on my way
to work

People
Old lady with heavy bags

Happened
I helped carry her bags to her front door
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Useful Language for Describing Events

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Model Answer

TASK CARD

Describe an unusual meal you had

You should say:

• When you had it


• Where it was
• Whom you had it with

And explain why it was unusual

One-Minute Preparation

1. Watch this video of the candidate preparing for One minute.

What do you notice?

https://vimeo.com/810938977/0d78eeaec8

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You may notice he….

• gets an idea quickly


• doesn’t worry about details
• makes up a few things (not true)
• writes some key ideas
• makes just a few notes; vocabulary
• prepares his rst sentence
• uses the full one minute to prepare

2. Now watch the candidate give his answer.

Which different tenses does he use?

https://vimeo.com/810939769/ef69d73c30

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Some di erent tenses used are:

I had never had it before (past perfect)


It must have been (present perfect)
I was living in China (past continuous)
I had moved there a few years earlier
(past perfect)
They invited me to lunch (simple past)

3. Watch again and note any useful vocabulary

Full script on next page

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Useful Vocabulary

So I'm going to tell you about the time I had donkey meat,

which was an unusual meal for me.

I had never had it before.

This must have been around ten years ago, I think.

I was living in China at the time.

I had moved there a few years earlier. I can't remember the year exactly.

So I was working in China, I was a teacher, I was teaching, and some


colleagues of mine, a couple of colleagues, invited me for lunch.

I think they were very friendly, very considerate. I think they wanted to
make me feel at home and help me settle in. (=help me feel
comfortable in a new place)

Well, one day they said, let's go to this restaurant.

So we nished our classes, we got our coats and headed out for
lunch.

And I remember, as we were walking up to the restaurant, I suddenly


saw this picture on the top of the restaurant. And it was a horse, I think.

I said, 'what's that?' They said 'it's a donkey.'


I said, 'Why have they got a picture of a donkey?'
And they said, 'well, that's the food they serve here.'
And I thought, oh, my God, this is going to be interesting.

So we walked into the restaurant and it was quite a nice restaurant.

I mean, bog-standard, run-of-the-mill (= ordinary) restaurant. Nothing


special, really, lots of local people grabbing a quick lunch.

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So we sat down, the waiter came over, took the order and then served
up the meat.

And actually, it was quite nice. It was quite tasty.


I remember my friend Liu said, 'It's like crocodile meat, right?'
I said, 'I've no idea. I've never had crocodile meat.'

So it was an interesting meal.

It was out of the ordinary for me, because it's not that donkey meat
restaurants are few and far between (= not many) in England, it's just
that they don't exist.

So this was a kind of an o -the-wall (=unusual) experience for me, but


it was quite nice.

Do you prefer to eat out at a restaurant or stay at home?

Are young people less worried about eating healthy food than in the
past?

Should the government encourage healthy eating? How?

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Test Your Vocabulary: ANSWERS

Fill in each gap with ONE word.

1) We sometimes like to eat _out____ in a nice restaurant.

2) I didn’t like that dish at all, actually it was really _awful, terrible,
greasy, oily, spicy, unpleasant, horrible, disgusting, revolting,
bland / tasteless, unsavoury _________

Jokes Answers

A carrot
To get another rib

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