Restaurant vocabulary
and phrases
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Teaching restaurant language articles
How to teach restaurant language
Photocopiable restaurant language classroom activities
Requests and offers in restaurants activities – NEW
Positive and negative responses in restaurants games (including a coin game and a dice game)
Fast food restaurants vocabulary roleplays (with food Janglish presentation)
Guest or host in restaurants simplest responses game, key words and card games
Language for hosts and guests in restaurants – older and simpler version of the worksheet above
Much/ many and restaurant roleplays
Much/ many and restaurant roleplays version 2
Like and would like roleplay dialogue on food
Entertaining a foreign guest (including explaining Japanese food)
Explaining Japanese food and drink – good as preparation to entertain foreign guests
Being positive and negative about food from other countries (likes and dislikes, describing food, and country and nationality words)
Explaining food vocabulary defining relative clauses practice (some specific to Japanese and other Asian food, but easily adaptable)
Explaining Japanese things comparing and contrasting practice (mainly food and drink)
Positive and negative words about food and dining
Cooking and eating verbs mimes
Food vocabulary brainstorming game
Xmas food restaurant roleplays
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Updated 4 Mar 2026
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