Market Leader Pre-Intermediate Unit 6
A business contact from abroad is visiting your country for the first time next week and you want to take them out somewhere one evening while they are here. Hold a meeting with one or two of your colleagues to decide where you will take the foreign guest next week. Roleplay the whole meeting (from greetings to smoothly ending).
Possible ideas to consider:
- Adventure sport, e.g. paintball, laser quest or go kart racing
- (Formal) banquet
- (Local/ Traditional/ Regional/ British/ Irish/ German/ Chain/ Theme) bar/ pub
- Bar hopping/ Pub crawl
- Barbecue
- Beer garden
- Boat/ Ship
- Buffet-style restaurant/ Eat-all-you-like restaurant
- Café
- Club (= nightclub = disco)
- Eating outdoors, e.g. terrace or picnic
- Exhibition/ Gallery/ Museum
- (Local/ Traditional) festival
- Firework display
- Flight over the city, e.g. in a helicopter or balloon
- Gambling (e.g. casino)
- Girlie bar, e.g. Hooters or Budweiser bars
- Go go bar/ Strip club
- Golf
- Happy hour
- High tea/ Cream tea
- Hostess bar
- Hot spring/ Public bath
- Karaoke
- (Traditional) performance (ballet, opera, folk music, etc)
- (Bicycle/ Boat/ Horse) races
- (Exclusive/ Foreign/ Seafood/ Regional/ Traditional-style) restaurant
- Skiing
- Somewhere near and/ or with a view of a sightseeing spot
- Son et lumiere
- Street festival/ Parade
- Street food
- Traditional sport
When your teacher stops you, report where you decided and see if other groups agree. Then as a class discuss:
- Are any of the places above unsuitable for entertaining foreign guests? Why?
- Are any entertainment spots different in your country and other places, e.g. bars or street food? If so, how would you explain those things to a foreign guest when inviting them to do those things?
Use this list of Japanese places to extend the discussion above:
- “Snack”/ Mama-san bar
- Akachochin bar
- Champon restaurant
- Chankonabe restaurant
- Conveyor belt sushi bar
- Donburi restaurant/ Gyudon restaurant
- Family restaurant
- Fugu restaurant
- Geisha bar
- Genghis Khan restaurant
- Hanami party
- High ball bar
- Izakaya
- Kabuki
- Karaoke box
- Kushiyaki restaurant
- Maid café
- Monjayaki restaurant
- Motsuyaki restaurant
- Noh
- Nomihoudai
- Oden restaurant
- Okinawan bar/ restaurant
- Okonomiyaki restaurant
- Ryotei
- Sake bar
- Shabu-shabu restaurant
- Shochu bar
- Soba restaurant
- Sumo wrestling
- Tachinomiya bar
- Teishokuya
- Tempura restaurant
- Tonkatsu restaurant
- Tonkotsu ramen restaurant
- Wagashiya
- Yakatabune
- Yakiniku restaurant
- Yakitori restaurant
- Yatai
- Youshoku restaurant
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