Learn to talk about your weekend in English with an A2 past simple lesson plan that uses a picture story, common irregular verbs, and real “What did you do?” conversations.
Main objectives of this material
- Develop everyday food and café vocabulary related to ordering lunch, including terms such as soup of the day, a wrap, a side, to go, to eat in, allergic to, spicy, a receipt and in a hurry, practised through a menu-scanning task, a countable or uncountable sorting task, a fourteen-entry glossary and the flashcard set.
- Strengthen speaking and reading skills by reading the Corner Canteen lunch menu (twenty items with prices), completing an order ticket from Maya’s dialogue, answering six true-or-false questions about Leo’s wrong order, finding the key phrases in the two dialogues and correcting eight mistakes in a third dialogue before the final role-play.
- Learn and practise polite requests for ordering food using Can I have..., please?, Could I get...?, Is there any / Are there any... in it?, Without onion, please, To go, please and I think there’s a mistake with my order, together with a / an / some with countable and uncountable food words.
What students are going to cover
In this lesson, students will learn how to order lunch in English at a café or canteen and deal with a wrong order. They read the Corner Canteen menu, sort twelve food words into countable and uncountable and try ordering with no help. In two model dialogues, Maya orders a wrap without onion, to go and Leo politely reports a wrong sandwich and asks about nuts. Students complete an order ticket, answer six true-or-false statements and find the key phrases. A language bank sorted by function leads into an eight-item a / an / some gap-fill, six Is there / Are there questions and a make-it-polite rewriting task, then students correct eight mistakes in Dan’s order. The hot task is a role-play with three customer cards (allergy, no onion, to go) and a secret Server Card. Homework is an eleven-gap dialogue from memory plus a written dialogue or 60-second voice message. The package adds a teacher version, a fillable PDF, slides and 46 flashcards and speaking cards. By the end of the lesson, learners will be able to order a meal and a drink politely, ask whether a dish contains an ingredient, and politely report a mistake with their order.
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