En el café: ordering food and drink
Ordering is a short, predictable exchange, which makes it the perfect place to sound genuinely confident.
Part of your national curriculum
- Listening: Listen to a variety of forms of spoken language to obtain information and respond appropriately
Lesson overview
What you'll learn in this lesson
Listen to a variety of forms of spoken language to obtain information and respond appropriately
Key learning points
- • Ordering
- • Food vocabulary
- • Dietary needs
This lesson at a glance
- 20 minutes
- 19 parts to scroll through
- 4 quick checks
- Marked quiz at the end
- Gentle pace: short sittings with pauses
Words to know
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En el café: ordering food and drink
Ordering is a short, predictable exchange, which makes it the perfect place to sound genuinely confident.
In a nutshell
Listen to a variety of forms of spoken language to obtain information and respond appropriately
Learning cycle
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Learning cycle 1 of 2
Part 1 · Ordering
A short piece of teaching, then a check to make sure it has landed.
Explore the idea
Part 3 of 19
Learn
Ordering
Para mí, un zumo de naranja, por favor. Quisiera una tortilla. ¿Me trae la carta? ¿Qué lleva? (what is in it?) La cuenta, por favor. Quisiera is politer than quiero.
Reset break
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Pause
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Stretch, get a drink, look out of the window. There is no timer and nothing is counting down — your place is saved, so you can come back in five minutes or tomorrow.
Explore the idea
Part 5 of 19
Learn
Food vocabulary
el bocadillo, la tortilla, las tapas, el pescado, el pollo, la ensalada, el arroz, el queso, el jamón, el agua con gas / sin gas, el zumo, el café con leche.
Quick check
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Quick check
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Reset break
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Pause
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Stretch, get a drink, look out of the window. There is no timer and nothing is counting down — your place is saved, so you can come back in five minutes or tomorrow.
Learning cycle
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Learning cycle 2 of 2
Part 2 · Dietary needs
A short piece of teaching, then a check to make sure it has landed.
Explore the idea
Part 10 of 19
Learn
Dietary needs
Soy vegetariano/a. No como carne. Soy alérgico/a a los frutos secos. ¿Lleva gluten? Note the adjective agreement — alérgica if you are female.
Quick check
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Reset break
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Pause
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Stretch, get a drink, look out of the window. There is no timer and nothing is counting down — your place is saved, so you can come back in five minutes or tomorrow.
Quick check
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Explore the idea
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Worked example
Model dialogue
— Buenos días, ¿qué va a tomar? — Quisiera un bocadillo de queso y un zumo de naranja, por favor. — ¿Algo más? — No, gracias. ¿Cuánto es? — Seis euros con cincuenta. — Aquí tiene. Note 'seis euros con cincuenta' for €6.50 — prices often catch people out in listening tasks.
Challenge round
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Game · Sort it
Which of these are true?
Drag each card into the right column. Tap a card first if dragging is fiddly.
True
Not true
Reset break
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Pause
That's sitting 4 of 5 done
Stretch, get a drink, look out of the window. There is no timer and nothing is counting down — your place is saved, so you can come back in five minutes or tomorrow.
Challenge round
Part 17 of 19
Game · Recall cards
You hear: 'Le bus numéro douze part de la place à huit heures et quart.' What do you now know?
Card 1 of 4
Mastery quiz
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Marked quiz
End of lesson quiz: En el café: ordering food and drink
4 questions, marked with the reasoning shown. No timer.
1. You hear: 'Le bus numéro douze part de la place à huit heures et quart.' What do you now know?
2. A friend's voice message ends 'Tu peux me rappeler ce soir ?'. The appropriate response is to...
3. What does 'il pleut' mean?
4. 'Le train part à quinze heures' tells you the train's...
Lesson round-up
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Lesson round-up
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Listen to a variety of forms of spoken language to obtain information and respond appropriately