Fast Food Restaurants

Today, we are going to talk about fast food restaurants.

Fast-food restaurants are in almost every country of the world now. We can see their brightly coloured shopfronts in every shopping area or mall.

But what is fast food exactly? And how to order it?

In this lesson you will learn vocabulary and phrases related to fast food restaurants, practice ordering food, and improve your reading skills.

Fast food is a term used to describe food that is:

• served quickly
• convenient to find
• relatively cheap
• simple food
• found in most towns and cities of the world
• a recognizable brand

Discussion Questions:

• What fast food restaurants do you know?
• What do people usually eat at fast food restaurants?
• Do you think fast food is good or bad? Why? 

Food and Drinks

These are the main kinds of food you can find in fast-food restaurants.

Fast Food Menu  

Fast food menus are bright and colourful.

You can see the menu displayed on a large board behind the servers at the counter. The board is brightly lit to draw customers’ attention to it.

All the meals have clear and beautiful pictures and prices next to each item.

There are also handheld menus which are also very colourful and full of pictures.

You can also see the menu on the fast-food restaurant app or website.

Fast food menus are different from other restaurant menus in that every meal and food item has a photograph and the prices are very clearly shown throughout.

And all the meals in fast-food restaurants have numbers attached to them.

So when you order your food, you can just say: Can I have a number one, please? And the server knows exactly what you want.

This is done for convenience and speed. The customer receives their food quickly. Then they can eat quickly and leave.

Main Fast Food Vocabulary 

Look at the picture below and make sure you know all the words connected with fast food restaurants

What is a combo?

Fast food often comes in a combo (short for combination) that includes at least two different items together at a cheaper price than what they would be individually. Usually, one of them is something to drink like a milkshake or a fizzy drink / soda.

Eat-In/To Eat Here

This means that you wish to eat the food you buy on the premises. There are tables and chairs in the fast-food restaurant and you can sit wherever you wish to eat your food.

Take Out/Take-Away/To Go/Carry Out

These are just different ways to express that the customer buys the food and takes it outside of the fast-food restaurant. You may eat the meal at home, in your car or just sit outside in a park somewhere. If you want to do this, you need to tell the server.

What is the difference between takeout and takeaway?

Takeout is the more commonly used term in 🇺🇸 American English, while takeaway is more commonly used in 🇬🇧 British English. However, both terms are understood and used in both countries.

Drive Through/Thru

In an attempt to make fast food even faster, companies introduced the idea of the drive-through. The customer drives into a special lane next to the restaurant. Then you order your food by speaking into a machine. The server communicates with you via the machines and takes your order. Then you drive to a window to pay and collect your food.

The word ‘THRU’ is a non-standard Americanised spelling of through.

 

More information about Fast Food Restaurants you can learn from this video.

Going to a fast food restaurant, an interactive worksheet by pcuvillier
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READING

KINDS OF SPORT

In this lesson you will learn about different kinds of sport and practice some interactive exercises.

Match the sports with their descriptions

Click on a sport, then click on its description to match them.

Sports:

1. Football is...

2. Surfing is...

3. Skiing is...

4. Motor-racing is...

5. Boxing is...

6. Fencing is...

7. Cycling is...

8. Archery is...

9. Jogging is...

Descriptions:

a. a water sport you do in the sea.

b. a contact sport where you touch another person.

c. an extreme sport that is fast and dangerous.

d. a winter sport that you need snow for.

e. a team sport you play with ten others.

f. a combat sport using special swords and protective gear.

g. a sport where you ride a two-wheeled vehicle using pedals.

h. a precision sport where you shoot arrows at a target.

i. a form of running at a steady gentle pace as exercise.

Available Selected Used

Find the odd one out in each row

Click on the word you think is the odd one out in each list.

1. Ice hockey cricket rugby weightlifting

2. Rowing sky diving water polo surfing

3. Paragliding horse racing surfing javelin

4. Boxing fencing discus wrestling

5. Horse racing marathon scuba diving rowing

6. Wrestling discus javelin long jump

Which sport are they talking about?

Click on a statement, then click on the corresponding sport to match them.

Statements:

1. Personal achievements are important to me in sport. I've just lifted my heaviest weights ever.

2. I prefer team games to individual sports. We're playing well at the moment – all of the team are really good skaters.

3. I think it should be banned. The poor animals often get injured.

4. It felt like I had been running forever but I managed to finish the race.

5. I love adventure sports. I tried it last year, but I kept falling off the board into the sea.

6. I don't know why people watch it. It's horrible to see two men hitting each other.

Sports:

Weightlifting

Horse Racing

Surfing

Marathon

Ice Hockey

Boxing

 BRITISH CUISINE. 

WHAT DO BRITISH EAT?

Hello! When learning a language it is also important to learn about the culture of the country which the language is from.

Today will learn about traditional British cuisine, its cultural importance, and common dishes. 

If you ask fereigners to name some typically English dishes, they will probably think of Fish & Chips and then stop. It is dissapointing, but true. There is no  tradition in England of eating in restaurants. However, most British meals are cooked at home, so finding a good English restaurant can be difficult. Instead, British cities are full of Indian, Chinese, French, and Italian restaurants, and London even offers Mexican, Greek, and Indonesian food.

Some believe this means Britain has no real cuisine, but that’s not quite true. Traditional dishes like Sunday Roast, Shepherd’s Pie, and Full English Breakfast are still popular.

Let's watch these videos and compare British cuisine with local dishes.

And now do the quiz.

Mach the name of the dish with the correct picture.

Watch this video and find out what British people like eating.

Related material: 15 british foods you have to try

HOMEWORK

TRADITIONAL ENGLISH MEALS

Complete the text:

‘good plain food’

roast beef

fish and chips

biscuits

occasion

have a chat

substantial

soup

main course

beef steak

biscuits

tea

roast turkey

Christmas pudding

fruit pie

The English like what they call . They must be able to recognise what they are eating. Usually they like , Yorkshire pudding and .

Afternoon tea is taken at about 5 o’clock, but it can hardly be called a meal. It is a cup of tea and cake or . At the weekends afternoon tea is a special . Friends and visitors are often invited to over a cup of tea.

Dinner is the most meal of the day. It is usually eaten at 7 o’clock. The first course may be (though the English don’t like it very much). The will often be fish or meat, perhaps the traditional of old England, and a lot of vegetables. The next course will be something sweet and often cooked, such as a . Last of all there may be cheese, often with .

It is common knowledge that the English are very fond of . They like to have ‘a nice cup of tea’ 6 or 8 times a day, sometimes even more.

On Christmas Day a is traditionally cooked for dinner. It is usually followed by . Long before Christmas housewives begin to plan what cake to make for Christmas. Usually they make fantastic Christmas cakes.