Hello all, since I have benefited a lot from your ideas, here's an idea from me when you are covering how to read a menu and ordering food at a  restaurant. The full lesson plan for this lesson is attached but I will give you a rough outline of the lesson itself. For this lesson to work, you'll need to have a projector or monitors connected to a computer. If you don't have these, you could get away with using a notebook computer, depending on your class size.

1) Warmup - 10 mins - introduce menu vocab such as appetizer, side dish, main course, dessert, drinks. Get photos from google as examples to show on display.

2) Team Game - up to 15 mins - split class into 3 teams and each member has 2 minutes to write down as many foods as possible. Gets teh students warmed up.

3) Display questions and get students to ask questions to eachother. Up to 20 mins

4) Display food adjectives and go through them with the class. Up to 25 mins

5) Hand out photocopies of the food dialogue and laminated copies of the menu, 2 for each group of 6 students ( My seating arrangement in my language lab is 6 tables seating 6 students each). Model dialogue for the students, then teacher models the waiter and students model beign a customer. Reverse when done.

Hand out 'fake money' to half of the class. They will be customers.

Get the other half of the class to stand up and come over to the tables where the 'customers' are. These students then play being 'waiters' and depending on their level, actually write down and figure out how much the customer should pay. When completed, handover fake money and menus to the other half and 'customer' students reverse roles and play at being 'waiters'.   Up to 45 mins

6) For the last 5 minutes, show pictures of cuisines from around the world.

You'll have to tweak this lesson depending on how easy or hard this is for the students. The only ESSENTIAL activities are 1) and 5). The other activities are good for filling out the lesson. Let me know how this goes !!!

I created this presentation for High School grade 2 girls, though I'm sure boys would enjoy it as well.

The lesson I conducted (though I will alter it for next time) was as such:
1.introduce a few vocabulary items from the cloze worksheet
2. students complete the cloze worksheet in small groups and then as a class check the answers
3. present the complaint and demand phrases
4. ask for volunteers to come to the front, one at a time, to do a role play with the teacher. The student orders from items from the menu and then chooses a complaint card (same as the images from the presentation). Student makes a correct sentence about the complaint image, and then makes the appropriate demand to recity the situation.
5. homework: Write about restaurants in your hometown. Which is your favorite, which do you not like and why? What are your favorite menu items?

As it is right now, I found that the lesson was jammed packed of too many ideas, so I would suggest breaking it down into two days:
day 1: review/introduction of how to order food and menu vocabulary, followed by a role play of going to a restaurant and ordering and/or have them create their own menus to practice the vocab.
day 2: introduce complaints and demands and again do a role-play of ordering and then complaining and making a demand.

I have included a variety of other resources I came across while researching for this topic. Feel free to make any adustments you see fit to suit your own style and focus. I don't remember where I found most of the worksheets and other resources but I thank all of the creators for their great contributions. I hope you enjoy it and find it useful!

This looks sooo awesome!!!! I can't wait to try it on my students!!!

International Food lesson was a success. My students loved the pictures and videos. As revision I used the Jeopardy Game.

I changed the lesson slightly for my lower level classes.

1. Introduce the adjectives for taste. Teach students that the adjectives for taste can also be used to describe people.
3. Introduce the adjectives for touch. Explain the difference between crunchy/crispy.
4. Adjectives exercise - to put the adjectives under the correct category.
5. Ask students if they're hungry. Tell them that they won't be hungry after this activity. Tell them I'm going to show them 10 pictures of foods from around the world. Ask them to guess what country these are from.
6. For an advanced class, do the Youtube activity'. Explain the names of insects etc before the video.
7. Divide the class into teams and play the Jeopardy game as revision. Include questions about yourself to make the game interesting. (e.g. The longest I have been with someone is ___ years/months). Girls seem to love random questions that they can't answer. The brain teasers were a huge success too.

I thought I uploaded the other activities.  Let me try again!

What an excellent lesson! I really like the adjectives, vocabulary, and overall fun of the PPT/lesson. What a great way to introduce key phrases about food.

This is my adaption to a ppt that was posted here a while ago. Standing on the shoulder of that giant I think I improved on the original lesson significantly. I used this for my wintercamp class and I think it could be used for the regular semester.

Basically the ppt talks about gross foods. It introduces the topic gives them phrases and words that they might use when discussing exotic foods. Then in the brainstorming section they’re asked to think of weird and strange foods and give their opinion of them. This section – the whole lesson really – requires impromptu interaction by the teacher. “Would you wanna eat that food?” “Wow, do they really eat that.” “Why do you think they eat that?” etc.

After brainstorming then you hand out the attached sheet and quiz them on different gross/strange foods. For each one I asked the same questions from the brainstorming section “Why do you think they eat it?” and “Would you eat it?” that’ll get a conversation going. On certain ones I showed a video.

No particular lesson but I used it as a conversation starter and at the end there is a project where students are asked to think of what foods, out of a narrowed down version of the gross foods, they would eat. In groups they would present their opinion, or act out a conversation in which they eat/discuss eating the weird food they picked.

If you do everything here (all the videos etc) It might span two classes. In which case you can give them the homework sheet I attached. It asks them to come up with 3 Korean dishes that they think Foreigners will think are strange. they present them in the next class while I finish up the slides and put them in groups.

The list of videos are:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4tItqWIKe4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S4EVs0bImA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fcf8WUB33hg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJlO0aifJxA

This looks good. I think it will appeal to the crazy Middle Schoolers' imaginations!

Agreed. This is awesome, thanks for posting!  :)

Looks like a great lesson. I've done one very similar (even with a Mr Bean videa, albeit the one where he goes to a restaurant on his birthday). This one would be great if I want to do the same theme with the same year again.

Ha!  This looks like a lot of fun.  I'm not sure if I'll have a chance to use it or not (I really need to get something resembling a long-term plan for my 1st grade high school students...!), but I'll definitely keep it in mind.  My students responded well to the food slide in my intro presentation to American culture, so I bet gross foods would get a reaction too.