22 Eating out
A Places where you can eat
café: you can have a cup of tea / coffee and a snack there (e.g. a sandwich or a cake). They
sometimes serve meals too (e.g. lunch, dinner).
restaurant: you go there for a meal; more expensive than a café.
bar / pub: bars and pubs serve alcohol and soft drinks [non-alcoholic drinks, e.g. fruit juice]; you can
usually have a meal or a snack there too.
fast food restaurant: you can get a quick hot meal there, for example burger and chips.
take-away: you buy a snack or a meal there and take it home to eat.
Menu
B In a restaurant
STARTERS
Soup of the day (v)
Mixed salad (v)
MAIN COURSES
Steak with chips or new potatoes
Fish and chips
Vegetable curry (v)
Salmon fillet with green beans
Burger with chips and mushrooms
DESSERTS
Chocolate ice cream
Apple pie
Fruit salad
(v = vegetarian)
C Expressions
Waiter Are you ready to order?
Customer Yes, I’d like the steak, please.
Waiter Would you like it with chips or new potatoes?
Customer With chips, please.
Waiter How would you like your steak - rare, medium or well-done?
Customer Well-done, please.
Waiter And what would you like to drink?
Customer I’ll have a coke, please.
(later)
Waiter Is everything all right?
Customer Thank you, it’s delicious. [very good]
(later)
Customer Could I have the bill, please?
Waiter Yes, of course.
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Exercises
22.1 Look at A opposite. Where would you go to …
1 buy a meal and take it home to eat? a take-away
2 have a romantic dinner for two?
3 eat a quick lunch?
4 have a cake and a cup of coffee?
5 drink a glass of wine with friends?
22.2 Write down the name of a place of this type in your town.
1 fast food restaurant: McDonald’s
2 café:
3 take-away:
4 restaurant:
5 bar:
22.3 Choose one of the words in the box which can go with each of the words in each group.
steak curry pie soup salad
1 You can have tomato / vegetable / chicken soup as a starter.
2 I’d like the beef / chicken / vegetable as a main course.
3 I’ll have the mixed / tomato / fruit
4 Can I have the apple / chicken , please.
5 Do you like your well-done, medium or rare?
22.4 Correct the six mistakes in this dialogue.
WAITER: Are you ready for order? to
CUSTOMER: Yes. I like vegetable soup and steak, please.
WAITER: What would you like your steak? Rare, medium or done good?
CUSTOMER: Rare, please.
WAITER: What you would like to drink?
CUSTOMER: A orange juice, please.
22.5 Cover the menu opposite. Write the food you can remember. Look at the menu again and check
your answers.
22.6 Answer these questions.
1 What would you choose to eat from the menu opposite?
2 What can vegetarians eat from the menu?
3 Do you like eating out?
4 How often do you go to a restaurant?
Over to you
Sometimes restaurants in other countries have English menus for tourists. Look at one of these.
Write down any useful words you find.
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