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Ordering food in a café

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Instructions

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Preparation

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Reading

Coffee cup
Café
★★★★☆
324 reviews
Burgers, Chicken, Pizzas
Menu
Reviews
Info
Main courses
Cheese burger
£4.39
Double cheese burger
£4.99
Chicken curry with rice
£3.99
Macaroni cheese
£4.19
Seafood salad
£4.49
Egg salad
£3.99
Fish and mushroom pie
£4.69
Pizza
Chicken pizza
£4.55
Mushroom pizza
£4.60
Four cheeses pizza
£4.10
Meat pizza
£4.75
Seafood pizza
£4.75
Fruit
Apple
£0.59
Orange
£0.59
Banana
£0.69
Pear
£0.69
Mixed fruits (3 fruits)
£1.29
Desserts
Ice cream (vanilla, chocolate, strawberry)
£1.99
Banana cake
£2.39
Fruit cake
£2.29
Drinks
Orange juice
£0.99
Apple juice
£0.99
Tea
£0.59
Coffee
£0.59
Water
£0.49
Audio file

Transcript

Café worker: Next, please! What would you like?

Andi: Can I have a burger, please?

Café worker: A cheese burger or double cheese burger?

Andi: Double cheese burger, please.

Café worker: Anything else?

Andi: Yeah, I'd like some banana cake.

Café worker: Would you like a drink?

Andi: Yes, can I have an apple juice, please?

Café worker: OK, so that's one double cheese burger, one banana cake and an apple juice. What's your table number?

Andi: Table 3. How much is that?

Café worker: That's £8.37, please.

Andi: Here you are.

Café worker: Thank you ... that's £10.00 ... and £1.63 change. Next, please ...

Worksheets and downloads

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Ordering food in a café - answers191.38 KB
Ordering food in a café - transcript190.1 KB
Discussion

What's your favourite restaurant? What food and drink do you like to have there?

Language level
A1 Elementary
Topics
food
restaurants
Average: 4 (45 votes)
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Comments

Submitted by Luisa_23 on Tue, 09/10/2024 - 00:03

My favorite restaurant is any where they have very spicy food.

Submitted by trust on Wed, 08/07/2024 - 12:21

My favorite food is shrimp.

Submitted by snowzy on Mon, 07/08/2024 - 12:31

I love One Piece, and Sanji is a chef. This conversation reminds me of him.

Submitted by nvv on Wed, 06/14/2023 - 18:03

i like so much a fondue on the winter, idk but is wonderful!!

Submitted by Hazel_1704 on Fri, 06/02/2023 - 00:19

IN ANY CAFETERIA I ORDER A SWEET CREPE AND A HOT TIZANA, WHICH IS A FRUITY TEA WITH PIECES OF NUTS, AND A RESTAURANT, CALLED JAPONEZ, IS SUSHI AND I LOVE IT.

Submitted by JerryT on Thu, 03/09/2023 - 23:02

My favourite restaurant is a place called The Ritz in London. They serve a lot of different types of food and drink, and I really enjoy their steak and kidney pie.

Submitted by ahgima099 on Wed, 08/17/2022 - 15:07

There is no favorite restaurant.

Submitted by Tami1210 on Thu, 08/11/2022 - 01:08

My favorite restaurant is Pizza Fox. I always order a personal pizza with lots of cheese and a lemonade. The food in that restaurant is very delicious.

Submitted by Edaa on Wed, 06/01/2022 - 08:13

Kumpir is my favorite place sells street delicacies chicken rice is nice my favorite.
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Submitted by Ebrarr on Wed, 06/01/2022 - 07:26

a coffee is 50 TL, we can't go to the cafe

Submitted by rainyhappy on Thu, 04/07/2022 - 15:36

My favorite restaurant is The PIZZA. I always order chesses pizza and soda. These food are so yummy and I really love to eat them so much.

Submitted by bergin on Thu, 12/16/2021 - 11:57

my favourite cafe "PizzaMania" My family and I eat there.Im order chips and cake three choclate,I drink choclate milkshake or fizzy water

Submitted by Fenic on Wed, 10/13/2021 - 07:36

I don't have any favorite restaurant.

Submitted by CCAK131016 on Tue, 10/05/2021 - 15:58

Hi everyone

Submitted by englishpro on Wed, 11/01/2023 - 08:58

heyy

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Submitted by FlowerQueen on Mon, 08/30/2021 - 14:25

My favourite restaurant ist "Fuchshof Restaurant" in Ludwigsburg, Germany. I always drink there fizzy water. My family and I eat there Black Burger. It's a kind of Cheese Burger with black burn. Flammkuchen (in German). It's a kind of pizza with bacon and cream cheese. But Flammkuchen is more thin and crispy than pizza. rib with potatoes. The meat is really tasty! And for dessert we eat ice cream in the summer. I love this restaurant! It's just a little bit far from our house, so we don't often eat there.
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Submitted by AnuBis on Fri, 08/27/2021 - 21:51

Well, I don´t have a favorite restaurant but I prefer fast food and I like to order: Tacos or hamburger + cola or juice.
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Submitted by fanny on Mon, 08/16/2021 - 13:31

My favourite restaurant is Tomeiro and I really love it´s hamburgers ´cause are delicious with their dressings and the vegan meat taste like goods ;). I would like to drink a matcha smoothie

Submitted by Ammar on Tue, 07/27/2021 - 20:45

My favourite restaurant is Teriyaki, I prefer to have a chicken Pizza, and in terms of drinks I like chocolate milkshake.
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Submitted by MuradYT on Mon, 06/07/2021 - 07:16

I like Papa Johns and pizza + sprite

Submitted by tessa_feodor on Sun, 04/25/2021 - 15:02

I like Burger King and pepperoni pizza!

Submitted by derek on Sun, 04/04/2021 - 20:59

I like pizza

Submitted by GGO_Toxic on Tue, 03/02/2021 - 18:29

I like almost all restaurants especially restaurants that serve Japanese food such as sushi.

Submitted by MartinaRovira on Thu, 02/18/2021 - 13:19

Hey! I like pasta and pizza, but I also like sushi and yakisoba's. For dessert, I love creps and chocolate cake with strawberries and cream. For drink, I always have "CHAMPIN" or water.

Submitted by marcal on Thu, 02/18/2021 - 11:18

I don't have favourite restaurant i like so many restaurants. But I think than my favourite eat is jam, macaroons, salad... I like cola, aquarius, fanta, te...
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Submitted by Kostantinus on Thu, 01/07/2021 - 07:13

I like many different restaurants. I like pizza, Sichuan beef noodles, hot pot, mashed potato, sausages, salad, fish, lam, beef, chicken, duck, ham, bacon, sushi, fruit, vegetables, cakes, biscuit, fresh bread, vareniki, borch, pancakes and so on.
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Submitted by rafaelyeshua on Tue, 12/15/2020 - 15:05

my favorite restaurant is "la cascada" it has a slide for children and it's very big, once my whole family and me went to that place and ate a big pizza

Submitted by launava on Wed, 10/21/2020 - 01:23

What's your favourite restaurant? What food and drink do you like to have there? My favorite restaurant is an Ariston a cafeteria next to the theater in Monaco. I like drink a cup of coffee and eat a cheescake before to go at work. Rhiana - Laura - Grupo 52
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Submitted by JoModerator on Wed, 10/21/2020 - 08:49

Hi launava,

Welcome to LearnEnglish teens! Please can you create separate accounts for each user? In our House Rules we ask you not to share your account with other people. Thanks a lot and I hope you both enjoy the site! :)

Jo (LearnEnglish Teens team)

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Submitted by Xuka on Sun, 08/16/2020 - 20:07

I like Pizza Hut restaurant the best because I am crazy about all kinds of pizza. I usually have a medium chicken pizza and a Cola here. It's delicious! Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, my family restricted order the food from outside. Thus, I haven't eaten pizza for a long time.
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Submitted by zagrybast on Fri, 08/14/2020 - 10:20

My fav restaurant's Tokyo City. This restaurant of Asian food, there are sushi, rolls, woks and etc. I really like this food. But else I like to eat a burger and a pizza.
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Submitted by IANPAUL on Fri, 07/17/2020 - 17:12

My tastes are the restaurants that are on the beaches and what I would ask for would be a hamburger with a lemonade.
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Submitted by Sherry4869 on Wed, 05/13/2020 - 13:34

I like Japanese restaurants. I really love Japanese food. I would like to have some sushi and washoku.
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Submitted by DIGIOTANIMES on Mon, 05/04/2020 - 20:35

I like restaurants that sell Japanese food and that their meals are the same as the foods shown in my favorite anime, for example the ramen from the anime naruto or not only from this anime but from many others where this food appears, the onigiri and many other foods

Submitted by Latvian_Kri on Tue, 03/31/2020 - 10:40

My favourite restourant is "Brandīns" Brandīns is located in the area of Latvia, Ikskile. My favourite food and drink is local burger and orange juice.
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Submitted by PotatoHead123 on Tue, 03/24/2020 - 07:48

My foavourite restaurant is ,,Vairāk Saules". MY favourite food in this restaurant is WOK with seafood and i like to drink Zero Cola.
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Submitted by Raysan on Wed, 09/18/2019 - 15:17

There are so many types of food but my favorite one is Japanese Sushi. I love the wonderful taste of rice, fresh taste of seaweed, great taste of salmon. Totally, sushis are so delicious at all! I haven't been to Japan before, and I'm not Japanese. But I have tried sushi once, and its taste is very memorable...

Submitted by cian007 on Tue, 08/06/2019 - 15:24

my favorite cafe is "binban" they make delicious meat and chicken cake, I usually order a coke and a meat cake
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Submitted by empty on Fri, 07/12/2019 - 06:24

What's your favourite restaurant? What food and drink do you like to have there? I like fast food restaurants . I'd like to have hot dog and soda .

Submitted by levansonqs on Sun, 06/23/2019 - 10:08

My favorite restaurant is seafood. I like the fish BBQ and wine to drink.

Submitted by Thu on Thu, 06/20/2019 - 11:07

My favourite restaurant is BCHILL in Thailand. And I really excited because I almost go to Thailand again. Perhaps I ate cheese sticks, bacon sausages, and drank blue lemonade. It was great and unbelievable, I met BamBam, how handsome he is. He's tall and thin with the long legs, his legs just like girl's legs. I can wait for the time I go there one more time and I really want to meet BamBam again. Hope you can realize me. : ) _____________________________________________________ LOVE YOU AND BCHILL FOREVER, BAMBAM : >

Submitted by ArtDU on Fri, 05/17/2019 - 14:41

My favourite food is McDonald, unfortunately there is no one in my town. But I also like pizza with cheese and mushrooms. I like to drink Cola and " Dobry" juice which is translated "Kind'.

Submitted by nguyenninh on Tue, 11/06/2018 - 08:20

I often have my breakfast at 8;00 am, I used to eat potato chips, cheese burger and an apple juice. I like to drink apple juice.
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Submitted by khanhlinh92004 on Sat, 08/11/2018 - 07:33

I like a double cheeseburger and a meat pizza. I would like a strawberry ice-cream, an apple and an orange juice for desserts.

Submitted by Mughal on Mon, 07/09/2018 - 17:20

There is no my favourite restaurant.I prefer mostly home-made foods.I like eating fish ,Biryani and Haleem.

Submitted by cat28 on Wed, 03/28/2018 - 13:05

All my favorite restaurants are located in Tokyo.
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