Listening skills practice: Eating out – exercises

Listen to the conversation in a restaurant and do the exercises to improve your listening skills.

Preparation
Do this exercise before you listen. Draw a line to match the pictures with the words below.

Chips grilled fish tomato soup pasta sausages fruit salad

Omelette ice cream vegetables roast chicken cheese and cheese burger
biscuits
cheese and
fruit salad cheeseburger vegetables ice cream pasta
biscuits

chips roast chicken sausages tomato soup omelette grilled fish

1. Check your understanding: true or false

Do this exercise while you listen. Circle True or False for these sentences.

1. The customers want two tables. True False

2. There are two customers eating together. True False

3. The two customers order the same starter. True False

4. Both customers order the Thai chicken for their main course. True False

5. The customers order cold drinks. True False

6. Both customers order a dessert. True False

2. Check your understanding: gap fill
Do this exercise while you listen. Complete the gaps with a word from the box.

would ready for

have like like

1. A table ___FOR____ two, please.

2. Are you ___READY___ to order?

3. What would you ____LIKE____ for your starter?

4. I’d ___LIKE___ French onion soup, please.

5. What ___WOULD___ you like to drink?

6. I’ll ___HAVE___ a fresh orange juice.

Discussion

What food and drink from this menu would you order?
1. What does Coca-Cola come in? The answer is in the puzzle.
Cross out ten words for containers and measurements and use them to fill the gaps
in the sentences.

1. A packet of biscuits
2. A carton of orange juice.
P A C K E T
3. A bag of tomatoes.
B M A R G U 4. A loaft of bread.
O T R A B B 5. A bar of soap.
N I T J A E 6. A tin of sardines.
7. A tube of toothpaste.
F A O L G T 8. A jar of marmalade.
L E N X O B 9. A kilo gram of sugar.
10. A box of tissues.

Coca-Cola Classic comes in a bottle

2. Fill in “much” or “many”.

a) How MUCH wine? e) How MUCH water?

b) How MANY children? f) How MANY glasses?
c) How MANY. shops? g) How MUCH bread?
d) How MANY pencils? h) How MUCH tea?

3. Fill in “few” (countable nouns) or “little” (uncountable nouns).

a. There’s LITTLE bread.
b. There are FEW grapes.
c. There are A FEW pears.
d. There’s LITTLE money.
e. There are FEW biscuits.

4. Fill in “some” or “any”.

Stephanie is packing her suitcase. She needs some shoes. She doesn’t need to take any
boots. She needs some dresses and some blouses. She doesn’t need any jumpers or gloves.
She doesn’t need any warm clothes at all. She needs some jeans and she needs some money
of course.
 FOOD – COUNTABLE AND UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS
Student’s name KATHERINN ALARCON

Date Grade
oranje cheese coffee potatos

COUNTABLE NOUS
bar of Nouns you can count
chocolate banana milk meat You can use a / an in front of countable nouns.
Nouns that have a plural form.

carrot soda UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS

lemon pasta
Nouns you can´t count
Nouns that normally don´t have a plural form

apple fish Ice cream eggs

We can make uncountable nouns
a) Color and give the name of each picture,
countable to express quantity. We add a
then number them from the one you like
unit or a quantity with “OF”
the most a last one.
e.g. a bar of chocolate

c) Use a / an or some and write C for

countable or U for uncountable.

b) Look at the words and select them into the right

some money U category
some ponds C
a cup of tea C water – bread – lemons – chocolate – sugar – tea –
some sugar U milk – oranges- cheese – coffee – eggs –grapes – a
bar of chocolate - chicken – butter – a loaf of bread –
a bar of chocolate C
peach – a cup of tea – honey
a ice-cream C
some rice U Countable Uncountable
a glass of water C
some coffee U Bar of chocolate Wáter butter
some cake U A loaf of bread Bread
some eggs C A cup of tea Chocolate
an orange C Lemons Sugar
Eggs Tea
a bunch of grapes C
Oranges Milk
some coins C Cheese
grapes
an apple C Coffe
some salt U Honey
chicken
 HOW MUCH…? / HOW MANY…?

Student’s name Date Grade

How much + uncountable noun How many + countable noun

E.g. How much ham? E.g.: How many rashers and sausages

d) Ask questions using how much or how many

(eggs ) how many eggs are there in the bucket ?

(meat) how much meat is there in the fridge ?

(jam) how much jam is there on the table ?

(people) how many people are there in the mall ?

(flour) how much flour is the on the plate ?

(votes) how many votes are there in the box ?

(parties) how many parties are there in the city ?

(oil) how much oil is there in the bottle ?

d) Choose the correct word / expression and complete the sentences.

– how much – how many –

How many sandwiches have you got?

How much milk is there in the fridge?
How much time do you need?
How much fruit can you see on the table?
How many friends have you got?
How many states are there in Mexico?
How much love do you give to your mom?
How many gobernators are there in Mexico?
How many bananas do you eat a day?