Can I Have a Sandwich, Please? Ordering at a Café

Learning Objectives

• Use polite phrases to order food: Can I have …, please?
• Respond as a server: Here you are. Anything else?
• Read a simple menu and add up a small order.

How to Use This Resource

• Show the café slide. Ask: "What do you like to eat at a café?"
• Teach the menu words and phrases, then do activities 1 and 2 together.
• Children complete activities 3 to 6 and act out the role-play. Use the quiz and send the homework page home.

Classroom Activity Ideas

• Class café: set up a table with play food; children take turns ordering and serving.
• Menu design: children design a café menu with prices in points.
• Polite or not? Say phrases; children give a thumbs up for polite ones.

Differentiation

Support: give a dialogue card with the phrases. Challenge: customers order for two people and ask: How many points is that?

Assessment

Use the worksheet and quiz to check phrases and reading. Use the rubric during the café role-play.

Teacher Tips

Prices are in café points so the lesson works in any country. Practice intonation: Can I have a juice, please? goes up politely at the end. Remind children that please and thank you make a big difference in English.

What's Included

• 10-page printable PDF lesson pack: teacher lesson plan with timings, materials and differentiation
• Key vocabulary list (8 words with meanings and examples)
• Student worksheet (6 activities)
• Quiz / assessment (3 parts)
• Homework practice page
• Printable flashcards: 8 A5 picture cards (separate PDF)
• Assessment rubric (4 levels)
• Lesson slides (editable PowerPoint)
• Editable Word version of all student pages
• Complete answer key (also as a separate PDF)

Additional Files

• Lesson Slides (PPTX)
• Editable Student Pages and Lesson Plan (DOCX)
• A5 Flashcards (PDF)
• Answer Key (PDF)

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