Ordering in a Restaurant - Role Play
Choose a meal, check ingredients and politely resolve an order or bill mistake. An A2–B1 speaking lesson with useful phrases, two model conversations and three paired role-play scenarios.
What’s in the worksheet?
- Useful phrases for both speakers
- Two natural model conversations
- Three paired role-play scenarios
- Switch roles and practise again
Practise ordering food, checking ingredients and resolving a restaurant mistake politely.
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A simple way to teach it
Before the lesson
Give both pages and separate the customer/server cards. Preview vegetarian, itemised receipt and checking with the kitchen.
- Read the lunch and wrong-order models, identifying how the speakers check waiting time and offer a solution.
- Role-play a meal within a £15 budget, an allergy enquiry requiring kitchen confirmation and a bill with an extra juice; read only your own card.
- Confirm the chosen order or corrected bill, then swap roles and change one detail.
Support and extension
Support with a short menu and request stems; extend with follow-up questions about cost and timing. Treat prices as fictional. In the allergy task, do not guess ingredients or guarantee safety: the card requires checking with the kitchen.
Suggested approach. Adjust the pace and number of questions to suit your class.
