Spoken English

SITUATIONAL ENGLISH
LESSON – 1
(CONVERSATION IN A RESTAURANT)
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Sentences you need to use in a restaurant

Meaning
1. Waiter, please bring me the menu card. Vacant — खाली
2. Would you give the menu card? Speciality — िवशेषता
3. Can I see the menu, please?
4. Do you have a vacant table for four?
5. Please bring a bottle of mineral water.
6. What can you serve as starters?
7. What special dish will you suggest?
8. What is the speciality of this restaurant?
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Sentences you need to use in a restaurant

Meaning
9. What do you have in beverages?
Beverages — पेय
10. Please clean the table?
11. Which is the most popular dish of your Spoons — चम्म
restaurant? Forks — काँटा-खाने के िलए
12. Do you follow all the government instructions �यु� होने वाले
regarding COVID-19?
13. Please clean and sanitize the table.
14. These plates are not clean.
15. Please clean the spoons and forks.
16. Can you ensure safe and hygienic food?
17. Don’t you have a vacant corner table?
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Sentences you need to use in a restaurant

18. Why aren't you wearing gloves and mask?

19. Please join the tables and make a sitting arrangement for all of us.
20. What do you have in main course?
21. The Paneer Tikka is not hot. Please serve hot starters.
22. Please change the napkins and cutlery.
23. Please don't make the starters spicy.
24. I am very hungry. Please serve the food fast.
25. Your service is very slow. Meaning
Spicy — मसालेदार
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Sentences you need to use in a restaurant

Meaning
26. The crispy potatoes are not at all crispy. They
Bland — lacking
are soft and bland/ tasteless.
27. The crispy potatoes are crispy just in name. in taste,
28. The starters are piquant and delicious. बेस्वा
29. Do you have a separate hall for birthday Piquant — मसालेदार व
parties?
स्वा�द
30. Would you book a table for two for the
Delicious — tasty,
Valentine's Day?
31. What is this dish? What are its ingredients? स्वा�द
32. What will its taste be?/ How does it taste? Ingredients — सामग�
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33. Can you book a hall that can occupy 200 Meaning
people? My sister's wedding is on the 10th of Unsavoury – tasteless
December. Sumptuous – impressive
34. Please change this soup. It's cold and in a way that
unsavoury. it seems
35. Do you have buffet option too?
lavish, भव्
36. Please serve one plate Paneer Masala, one
plate Fried Rice and a few Rotis.
37. The food is quite sumptuous.
38. Please serve some extra Rotis.
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Sentences you need to use in a restaurant

Meaning
39. Please pass the salt/ bowl of rice/ Curry Curry – पक� हुई सब्ज
/gravy / black pepper / Chilly flakes. Gravy – तर�
40. This soup is too much in quantity. Make Black pepper – काल� �मचर
one into two. Chilly flakes – सख
ु ी लाल �मचर् के
41. Please use less oil and butter in the curry/ छोटे-छोटे टुकड़े
dal.
Palatable – स्वा�दष
42. I am full. I can't eat any more.
Mouth-watering – िजसे देख कर
43. The food was tasty. All the dishes were
मँह
ु म� पानी आ
palatable/ mouth-watering.
जाए
44. Please bring the bill and some mouth
freshener.
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45. I am extremely pleased with your service.

Meaning
Ambience – आस-पास या�न
46. I am not at all happy with the ambience अंदर का माहौल
of this restaurant.

47. Everything was perfect. We will come

again.
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I went to a restaurant last month. It was an expensive one in a posh colony of

South Delhi. Its ambience was pleasant and quiet. I went in and asked for a
table for four. Soon we got a nice cosy corner table. I was with my family. Soon
a waiter came with the menu. He asked us what type of water we would like to
have-normal or chilled.
He served us water in clean glasses and left with the order. We had a few
minutes of chit chat and then the manager arrived. He was very humble and
courteous. He then personally went to see our order and the starters arrived
after around twenty minutes. In the meantime my brother went to dance on
the floor. The starters were crispy, hot and piquant.
Meaning
Ambience – अंदर का माहौल Humble – िवन� Crispy – कु रकु रा
Pleasant – खुशनुमा Courteous – िश� Piquant – मसालेदार व स्वा�द
Cosy – आरामदायक Personally – िनजी �प से
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All the dishes were sumptuous and we were full. We wanted to cancel the main
course but that was not possible and so the food was served. The main course
had pleasant taste and aroma but we were too full to eat any more so we got
the food packed which they readily did.
The food was tasty but the bill was very high. I enjoyed this outing. We left the
restaurant with some packets of mouth freshener. It was a pleasant evening for
me.

Meaning
Sumptuous – भ� Aroma – खुशबु