This is a full lesson long milling activity for this chapter. It worked really well for a large group- 40 kids.
1 Do a little introduction about restaurants on the board- who works there, customers, favorite types of restaurant, order, cheque, bill, tipping, etc.
2 Go through the dialogue (just about ordering) in the PPT
3 Students should be sitting in groups (I have them at desks of 4). Each group should chose someone to be the waiter/waitress. The desks should be numbered (just a piece of paper on the table with the number on it does the trick)
4 Give each water an order docket and a menu. I have put some pictures of menus on the PPT- ones that I found you could read after printing. You may prefer to invent menus or get real ones, but they should be different.
5 Have the following list of instruction written on the board and go through them with the class
1 Waiter from table 1 goes to table 2, waiter from from table 2 goes to table 3, etc, and from table 10 to table 1
2 Waiter says "Good evening" and gives a menu to the customers
3 Waiter says "what do you want?"
4 Customers say "I want..."
5 Waiter writes down the order
6 Waiter waits
7 He only moves on to the next table when teacher says 5,4,3,2,1 CHANGE
Remind them to use the English and say that there will be a prize for the best waiter ( who uses English, is efficient, and polite, etc)
Set them loose! It may get a little chaotic, you will probably have to remind the class several times that these waiters are from New York and don't speak Korean, that customers don't write down their own orders in restaurants, that customers in restaurants stay seated, etc. Let them take orders at a few tables- it takes a while to set up so might as well!
During the order taking part I gave each customer fake money.
At the end of the activity, when they were all back at their desks I called on some waiters/waitresses to tell us what type of food they were selling, to tell us which tables they served, and what one of the tables wanted, "they wanted..."
Lastly, I explained about tips and told each customer to give the money to the waiter who was the best- who used English and was polite, etc. To make sure this isn't just popularity contest I gave out a few here and there to waiters who had tried.
The waiters count their tips and the one with the most wins a prize.
This worked really well but needs a lot of setting up. Without the logistics sorted it would just be chaos, so prepare well!!
