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A RESTAURANT
(IELTS SPEAKING
PART 2)
Expemo code:
15S9-9NE4-7KA
1 Warm-up
Study the types of restaurants below. Where do you prefer to eat out?
2 Describing dishes
Study the adjectives below and put them into the correct category.
Positive:
Negative:
Work in pairs. Think about a restaurant you have been to recently. Give one or two sentences about
the food like in the example below. Make your descriptions more natural and interesting by using
qualifying adverbs such as ‘a bit’, ‘a little’, ‘slightly’, ‘quite’, ‘fairly’, ‘very’, ‘really’, ‘extremely’.
I found the dishes extremely tasty and light. The food was a bit bland, to be honest.
3 Describing service
Study the adjectives below and put them into the correct category.
Positive:
Negative:
Now repeat the activity in Ex2, but talk about the service.
4 Describing a restaurant
Are there any restaurants in your hometown that can be described with the sentences above?
5 Practice
Work in pairs. Take turns to answer the cue cards below. Try to use vocabulary from this lesson.
Remember, you have 1 minute to take notes and 1-2 minutes for talking.
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Key
1. Warm-up
Go through the terms and clarify meaning. Provide any useful synonyms, e.g. ‘a fancy restaurant’ (an upmarket
restaurant). Encourage a short warm-up discussion.
2. Describing dishes
Students work individually and check in pairs. Go through the adjectives and clarify meaning. Some answers may
be ambiguous, e.g. some students may regard ‘heavy’ or ‘spicy’ as negative.
Positive: delicious, wonderful, mouthwatering, filling, heavy, light, tasty, fresh, spicy, nutritious
Negative: bland, tasteless, unhealthy, pricey, filling, spicy, light, heavy
3. Describing service
Students work individually and check in pairs. Go through the adjectives and clarify meaning.
Positive: excellent, friendly, efficient, fast
Negative: slow, unfriendly, terrible, poor
4. Describing a restaurant
1. huge
2. bare
3. reasonable
4. tiny
5. crowded
6. book
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