Online Lesson Plan: Restaurant Dialogues with Clarification
(Second Session) - Beginner (A2)
Building on Session 1: This session aims to expand on basic restaurant dialogues, focusing on
expressing preferences and making simple requests.
Time: 45 Minutes
Target Language: Expanded restaurant dialogues with preferences and requests
Learning Objectives:
Students will be able to express preferences using simple phrases. (e.g., "I would like..." or "I
prefer...")
Students will be able to make basic requests related to their order. (e.g., "Can I have...?" or
"May I...?")
Students will be able to understand and respond to simple questions from the waiter/waitress.
Materials:
Online meeting platform (Zoom, Google Meet, etc.)
Screen sharing capabilities
Online whiteboard or collaborative document (Miro, Jamboard, etc.)
Pictures or flashcards of restaurant items (digital versions)
Sample restaurant menu (with pictures & prices, simplified for beginners)
Procedure:
Introduction (10 minutes)
1. Quick Review: Briefly review key greetings, farewells, and basic restaurant vocabulary from
Session 1 using a short quiz or pictures on the whiteboard.
2. Restaurant Soundscape: Play a short audio clip (30 seconds) with additional restaurant
background sounds (ordering food, asking for clarification). Ask students to identify what they
hear in the chat function, focusing on new vocabulary related to ordering (e.g., "order," "drink").
Presentation (15 minutes)
1. Expressing Preferences: Introduce simple phrases for expressing preferences: "I would like..." or
"I prefer..." Model these phrases with different menu items: "I would like the chicken sandwich."
or "I prefer water over soda."
2. Making Requests: Focus on phrases for making basic requests related to the order: "Can I
have...?" or "May I...?" Demonstrate these phrases with scenarios: "Can I have fries with my
burger?" or "May I have some ketchup, please?"
Practice (20 minutes)
1. Menu Scramble: Present a scrambled menu on the whiteboard with pictures and descriptions of
different food and drink items. Students work in pairs to unscramble the menu items and
categorize them (food, drinks) in the chat function.
2. Dialogue Expansion: Divide students into pairs and assign roles (waiter/waitress and customer).
Provide a basic dialogue template from Session 1 and encourage students to expand it by
incorporating phrases for expressing preferences and making requests. For example, the
customer can say, "I would like the pizza, please. Can I have it with extra cheese?"
3. Waiter/Waitress Questions: Introduce simple questions a waiter/waitress might ask the
customer: "What would you like to drink?" or "Would you like anything else?" Students practice
incorporating these questions into their role-play dialogues.
Production (5 minutes)
1. Restaurant Survey: On the whiteboard, display a short survey with pictures of different food
and drink options. Students take turns responding to the survey prompts in the chat function,
using phrases for expressing preferences: "Which pizza would you prefer?" or "What kind of
drink would you like?"
Wrap-up (5 minutes)
1. Exit Ticket: Ask students to write a short dialogue in the chat function, depicting a simple
restaurant scene where they express a preference for a menu item and make a request related
to their order. Encourage them to incorporate all the vocabulary and phrases learned
throughout the lesson.
Differentiation:
For advanced beginner students, provide sentence frames to help them construct their
preferences and requests.
For lower beginner students, focus on practicing basic greetings and farewells with role-playing,
using visuals and gestures for support.
Extension Activities:
Students can create a short video skit depicting a simple restaurant scene with a dialogue
demonstrating preference and request phrases.
Have students research and write a short blog post for tourists, explaining basic restaurant
etiquette in their native language and highlighting the importance of using polite phrases when
ordering food or making requests
