Create Your Own Restaurant

Tatyana Kolesnikova
East Kazakhstan State University, Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan

Level/age group: low to upper intermediate, 13 and above.
Time:  40 minutes.
Aim: to speak and write about a restaurant using vocabulary connected with restaurant business (food, owning, advertising, etc.)
Resources: none
Preparation: none

Objective(s):

• to be able to advertise a job and write a want advertisement,
• to design an application blank for prospective employees to complete,
• to produce a leaflet for your own restaurant including: name, menu, the special of the house, and an advertisement.

Procedure:
brainstorm the vocabulary connected with the topic, ask students to design an application blank for prospective employees to complete, and to produce a leaflet for their own restaurant.

Pre-stage:

1. Ask the students what kind of restaurant they would like to own (cafeteria, drive-in, hotdog stand, etc.)
2. Brainstorm possible names for a restaurant.
3. Brainstorm the jobs for a restaurant

While-stage:

1. Ask the students to choose one of the types of the restaurant they would like to have.
2. Ask them to agree on the name of the restaurant.
3. Divide the students into three groups and assign the task to them.
   Group 1. List the jobs that will need to be filled before your restaurant opens and write a want advertisement.
   Group 2. Create an application form for prospective employees to complete. Think of important qualities they should have.
   Group 3. Produce a leaflet for your own restaurant including: name, menu, the special of the house, and an advertisement to attract customers.

Post-stage:
Ask the students working in different groups to share with others what they have created. Encourage feedback and discussion.

Options for adapting
To make the writing work easier, students may be given sample forms of job advertisements, restaurant leaflets and menus to be used as the basis for their own work.

Follow up activities:

• Write an advertisement for the TV/radio/WWW to attract potential customers.
• Describe the design for your restaurant, draw it.
• Discuss good and bad things about owning your very own restaurant.
• Write a secret recipe for the special of the house.

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