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Reviewing A Restaurant
Reviewing A Restaurant
Reviewing
a restaurant
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Learning outcomes
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Warm-up
Brainstorm adjectives to describe these elements of a restaurant.
1 2 3 4
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What’s your favourite restaurant?
1. Prepare two to three sentences about your favourite restaurant.
2. Tell a partner in breakout rooms or your whole class about your favourite restaurant.
3. For breakout rooms, briefly present your partner’s choice when back in the classroom.
• Is it expensive?
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Reading
Read these three reviews for the Lotus Palm, a Mediterranean bistro in San Diego, CA.
Came for lunch. Fantastic staff and, overall, extremely good value
for money. Ordered the special: the beef filet. It was so tasty!
Brian
Not sure about the Lotus Palm. Some dishes are absolutely
wonderful, others are just awful. Jury’s out on this one!
Tamisha
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Reading
Read the bistro’s reviews again. For each review, find examples of the language listed in the
boxes below.
Came for lunch. Fantastic staff and, overall, extremely good value
for money. Ordered the special: the beef filet. It was so tasty!
Brian
Not sure about the Lotus Palm. Some dishes are absolutely
wonderful, others are just awful. Jury’s out on this one!
Tamisha
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Using adverbs of degree
Look at the adverbs of degree highlighted in the sentences below.
● (Hint: look at the word they modify) ● Do we use absolutely or extremely with
this kind of adjective?
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Making a point stronger
Use an adverb of degree (either absolutely or extremely) to make each point stronger.
3 Service – terrible
4 Duck – tasty
6 Café – noisy
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Comparing so and such
Look at these sentences from the the text about the Lotus Palm. Complete the blue boxes.
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Real-life language
We had a super
disappointing meal
there!
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Using so and such
Complete the gaps with the correct word. Which opinions are positive and which are negative?
1 I was _______________ unhappy with my food there. They need to get a new chef ASAP!
2 It’s _______________ a nice place to just grab a coffee and watch the world go by!
3 My husband was _______________ disappointed with his salad. It was only lettuce and tomato!
4 This restaurant serves the best noodles in town. _______________ a good discovery!
5 They brought the food to our table _______________ quickly. What fantastic service!
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What do these customers think?
Here are some more customer ratings for the Lotus Palm. Choose one of them and write a
short review as if you are the customer.
Now, compare your reviews as a class. Would you like to try the Lotus Palm? Why or why not?
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Look back at your first writing task
Return to the sentences you wrote about your favourite restaurant on slide 4.
Can you improve them using vocabulary from today’s lesson?
• staff • so
• dish • such a
• meal
• wonderful
• absolutely • fantastic
• extremely • good value
for money
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Time to talk!
Ask your classmates the questions below. What can you find out about them?
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Let’s reflect
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End of the lesson
Idiom
Example: Went to that new Indian takeout on our street. The food was ok, but nothing to
write home about.
Additional practice
Additional practice
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The worst-rated restaurant near you
Perhaps you’ve had a horrible experience there, or heard about an extremely bad experience
from a friend. Let’s find out using the power of the internet!
Additional practice
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Extremely or absolutely?
Complete the sentences with the appropriate adverb.
Additional practice
a. extremely b. absolutely
2 I love that restaurant! The chef there is _______________ brilliant at what she does.
a. extremely b. absolutely
a. extremely b. absolutely
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Recommending a restaurant
Additional practice
Lucas
Me
...
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Rework the sentences
Add so and such to these sentences. More than one option might be possible.
Additional practice
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Answer key
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Answer key
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Summary
● When giving our opinion, we can make our point stronger by using:
Ø Adverbs of degree: absolutely and extremely;
Ø So or such a
● When deciding between absolutely and extremely, we need to look at the adjective that follows it:
Ø With ‘extreme’ adjectives (e.g. brilliant, freezing, boiling, terrible) we use absolutely.
Ø With most other adjectives (e.g. tasty, good, fast) we can use extremely.
● When we use so or such a, we also need to look at the kind of word we are modifying:
Ø We use so with adjectives or adverbs (e.g. The service was so fast; They made the food so quickly)
Ø We use such a.. with noun phrases (e.g. We had such a terrible meal there!)
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Vocabulary
tasty staff
undercooked meal
wonderful server
fantastic dish
overpriced
rude
awful
disappointing
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Notes
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