Eating out

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Places where you can eat

caf: you can have a cup of tea /

coffee and a snack there (e.g. a sandwich or a cake).

(e.g.
They sometimes serve meals
lunch, dinner) too.

restaurant: you go there for a meal; more expensive than a caf.

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

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it home to

eat.

ln a restaurant

Menu
Stqrters
Soup of the doy (v)

Mixed solod

{v)

Mqin courses
Steok with chips or new pototoes
Fish ond chips
Vegetoble curry {v)
Solmon fillet with green beons
Burger with chips ond mushrooms

Chocolote ice creom

Apple pie
Fruit solod
(v = vegetorion)

Erprcssions
MIIEN:

Are you ready to order?

lsToEt: Yes, I'd like the steak, please.
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Would you like it with chips or new potatoes?
qsToIEn: 'With chips, please.
SIIEI:
How would you like your steak - rare, medium or well-done?
c[:F[otEr: Well-done, please.
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And what would you like to drink?

OffNhtErl:

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have a coke, please.

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k everything all right?
ffit][tEl: Thank you, it's delicious.

[very good]

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I have the bill,

Yeq of course.

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Exercises
2"'l

Look at A opposite. Where would you go to ...

1 buy a meal and take it home to eat?

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?

?.2

Write down the name of a place of this type in your

1 fast food restaurant:

2 caf:
3 take-away:
4 restaurant:
5 bar:

2.3

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Choose one of the words in the box which can go with each of the words in each group.

steak curry pie sep

salad

1 You can have tomato / vegetable / chicken

.p..4P-.....................

as a starter.

.. as a main course.
2 I'd like the beef / chicken / vegetable
3 I'll have the mixed / tomato I frt..............
... , please.
4 Can I have the apple / chicken
... well-done, medium or rare?
5 Do you like your

2.4

Correct the six mistakes in this dialogue.

IAITER:

Are you ready {or ordr? tn

cusToMER: Yes. I like vegetable soup and steak, please.
IAITER: 'Shat would you like your steak? Rare, medium or done good?
CUSToMER: Rare, please.
'Vhat

Y/AITER:

CUSToMER:

you would like to drink?

A orange juice, please.

20"5

Cover the menu opposite. Write the food you can remember. Look at the menu again and
check your answers.

20.6

Answer these questions.

1 What would you choose to eat from the menu opposite?

2 \X/hat can vegetarians eat from the menu?

3 Do you like eating out?
4 How often do you go to a restaurant?

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