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New York Public Library

What's for Lunch?: New York City Restaurant Menus

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
Do you remember the days when a cup of coffee cost five cents? At A.W. Dennett restaurant in 1894, you could buy a five-cent cup of coffee and as well as a five-cent slice of pie to accompany it. The menu from that year is a primary...
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K5 Learning

A Restaurant

For Students 1st Standards
What can you eat at a restaurant? And how will you get it from your table? Learn about restaurant-specific words with a reading comprehension lesson about the people who work in restaurants, as well as the types of foods that various...
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Curated OER

Talking About Restaurant Problems

For Students Higher Ed
In this ESL learning exercise, students study words associated with a restaurant and problems that they may encounter.  Students focus on 9 pictures and label each with the appropriate vocabulary. 
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Curated OER

George's Place

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Here is another in the interesting series of lessons that uses money as a learning tool. This one is especially clever! During the lesson, pupils pretend they are eating at "George's Place" diner. Small groups are given one bag of play...
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Curated OER

Consumer Complaint Menu Role-play

For Students 4th - 10th
In this role play instructional activity, students participate in a role play about a consumer complaint in a restaurant. Students complete 5 steps in the role play.
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Curated OER

Reading Restaurant

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders complete book reports. They are given the following jobs; chef, who organizes them into genres; maître d', who calls students to share the menu; and waiters/waitresses, who take orders for books from customers, pass out...
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Curated OER

Mouthwatering Adjectives!

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders write descriptions of food items in order to create a restaurant menu. They use adjectives to describe mouth-watering and vivid food and compare it to a boring adjective-lacking menu. They design and share their menus with...
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Curated OER

Discrimination on the Menu

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students study discrimination in the workplace. In this discrimination lesson, students define the term 'fair' and work in groups to find ways all people are alike and different. Students write sentences defining a fair classroom, a fair...
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Curated OER

Speaking and Listening Lesson Based on Ordering Food in a Restaurant

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students practice the skill of ordering food in a restaurant. After a lecture/demo, students work in pairs. Utilizing a worksheet imbedded in this plan, they gain practice in the skill of ordering food from a menu.
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Curated OER

Some/Any in a Restaurant

For Students Higher Ed
In this grammar learning exercise, students read a dialogue between two customers and a waiter in a restaurant. They fill in the fourteen blanks with either "some" or "any." The learning exercise is intended to be used with English...
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Curated OER

Showing Good Taste

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students distinguish the important elements of well-written restaurant reviews by analyzing and evaluating reviews from The New York Times and by writing their own reviews of favorite dining locations.
Interactive
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Ordering in a Restaurant

For Students Higher Ed
  In this vocabulary activity, students master the usage of gerunds and infinitives.  Students complete 10 fill in the blank statements and self check when completed.    
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Southern Nevada Regional Professional Development Program

Vocabulary Activity

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Talk about a menu! Who would have thought SAT prep could be so delicious? Treat your class to a full course of SAT words with a timed activity that asks groups to create clues for dishes on their bill of fare. Distained veggies anyone?...
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Curated OER

Fast Food Fun

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students use technology to input, retrieve, organize, manipulate, evaluate, and communicate information to find calories and fat in a typical fast food meal. They decide which fast food restaurant you would like to visit and click on...
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Curated OER

Intermediate Matching - Restaurant

For Students 3rd - 5th
For this vocabulary worksheet, students match the 9 terms in the left-hand column to the 9 appropriate definitions in the right-hand column. All of the words pertain to restaurants.
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Curated OER

Information Station

For Teachers K
Students look through different print materials to information. In this information lesson plan, students look through the newspaper, magazines, and menus to practice finding such things as, the weather for the day, a picture of a nice...
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Curated OER

Cultures and Cuisines WebQuest

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers create and present a powerpoint presentation.  In this cultures and cuisines research lesson, students select a country, interview someone from that country and visit a restaurant from that country.  High...
Interactive
Curated OER

Position Prepositions 2

For Students 4th - 5th
In this recognizing the prepositions of places online/interactive worksheet, students click on the pop up menu to choose the correct position preposition to complete the sentences. Students choose 13 answers.
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Curated OER

Food

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students examine the types of foods eaten after the Civil War. They create their own cowboy style menu.
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Curated OER

Dining at the Diner

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this word search worksheet, students locate 19 words related to eating at a restaurant. The word list includes fork, fresh, fries, and grilled.
Interactive
Curated OER

Gerunds and Infinitives Exercise

For Students 3rd
In this interactive grammar worksheet, 3rd graders select the appropriate gerund or infinitive from the drop down menu in order to complete the given paragraph. There are 16 fill-in's to complete.
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Curated OER

What's for Dinner? (Using Adjectives)

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders use adjectives to describe foods listed in restaurant menus. In cooperative groups, 6th graders create menus and identify the adjectives used in the menu created by their group.
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Curated OER

Travel English For Restaurants

For Teachers 7th - 12th
students will practice to develop the skills of the English Language that are necessary for successful dining experiences. The communication of English is a target skill for the second language learner. The simple activity of ordering in...
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Rounding

For Teachers 1st
First graders round to estimate greater sums. After a lecture/demo, 1st graders complete a web lesson on estimation. They practice rounding to the nearest hundred using a restaurant take-out menu.

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