7/22/2023 0 Comments Projects tasks for restaurantsBeware, copying menus from a website into a Word documents results in some very messy layouts and can take ages to clear. I downloaded menus from the restaurant my student had mentioned. Ask for the bill and pay, give a tip (understand prices, say numbers).Order food and drinks (using the accusative case).Carry out basic conversations with restaurant staff:.I also knew my student doesn’t care for Czech food, so I asked him to tell me his favourite restaurants and used their menus to prepare the lesson. Whichever of the two, the diminutive form suffices to obscure the mind of a beginner learner. Why would you want your clients to think the “řízeček” is tiny if you can sell them a large “řízek”? I assume affection, not size is what is meant. Typical idiosyncrasies developed by restaurants include using the diminutives to name the meals for no obvious reason. The language is often unpredictable, complex and different for each restaurant. This isn’t easy unless you just want to limit yourself to some “typical” Czech dishes. Understand the names of meals on the menu.Identify the different sections of the menu (Polévky, Předkrmy, Hlavní jídla, Přílohy, Saláty, Dezerty, Nápoje).I analysed the topic and identified the following tasks and subtasks involved in the Final Task: “Order Food at a Restaurant and Pay for it.” So, my task was to design a lesson that would be similar to those in the coursebooks, but more principled and structured differently. Moreover, coursebooks become dated and you can see it in the choice of the menu items and, especially, the prices. Obviously, there is also always a sample menu and a sample dialogue waiter: client ordering food and paying, but there is often very little practice, so after the lesson, students can’t cope in a restaurant on their own. Yet it seems to me that the grammar is usually the main item on the agenda for the lesson. This is quite natural because if you want to speak accurately, it is what you need to be able to do – change the food items you order into the accusative. In the coursebooks, the topic of ordering food is usually connected with the grammar of teaching the accusative case. I knew, however, I would want to make some differences. The language of ordering food at a restaurant appears in many coursebooks at quite early levels, and I had previously taught it on many occasions. After a few experimental lessons described in the previous posts, we were finally heading to safer ground.
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