Language Learning for Busy People
Elementary: Making A Dinner
Reservation
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Elementary—Making A Dinner Reservation
Warm up:
• Opening chat--- 5 minutes
• Review previous lesson’s content ---5 minutes
• Check if your student has completed self-study of the
lesson.
• The class activities are designed to help them
practice the language from the lesson. Thus, it’s
extremely important that they go over different
sections of the lesson before class.
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Class Activities
Class Activities: (30-35 minutes)
Objective: learn how to make a dinner reservation
over the phone in today’s lesson. We’ll be learning
how to describe time, number of people attending
and deal with situations that might require you to
change your plan.
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Dialogue
1) Read the dialogue with the student, line by line.
Switch roles after the first run. Pay attention to
student’s pronunciation, give feedback and help
when needed. ---5 minutes
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Comprehension
Comprehension questions---3 minutes
• What is the name of the restaurant?
• Why can’t the man make the reservation at 7
o’clock?
• How many people will be going to dinner tonight?
• What is the guest’s name?
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Fluency builder
Fluency builder---10 minutes
1. ‘To make a reservation’
• ‘I’d like to make a reservation.’ 
• ‘I want to make a reservation.’ , but ‘I’d like to’
is better.
• ‘I like a reservation.’ 
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Fluency builder
Lunch or dinner?
I’d like to make a _________reservation
___ 7:30 PM.
7:30 PM
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Fluency builder
2. ‘Fully booked’
•Restaurant
•Hotel
•Flight
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Fluency builder
Make a dialogue using the following information:
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What: make a dinner reservation
When: this Thursday, 7 pm
How many guests: two
Availability: fully booked
A: Hi, I’d like to _______________.
B: Sure. For _____day and _____ time?
A: ___________.
B: I’m sorry. We are________.
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Fluency builder
3. ‘In that case’
Continue the dialogue on the previous slide. But use
‘in that case’.
A:_________, ____(time)____is fine.
B: No problem. How many people will attend?
A: _______.
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Grammar
Grammar---5 minutes
• Would like to
• Would you like to?
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Grammar
1. Would you like to _________ this
weekend?
2. I’d like to __________.
3. Would you like to _____________ with
me tomorrow?
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Culture
Cultural takeaway—3 minutes
Today’s key grammar structure is a common way of
showing politeness in communication. Explore
degree of politeness in your student’s culture.
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Role play
Scenario 1: make a dinner reservation over the phone. One person
should be the guest, other other restaurant staff. See below for
detailed information:
• Where: Morton’s Steakhouse
• When:
• Number of guests:
• Special request:
• Guest’s phone number:
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Role play
Scenario 2: asking your personal assistant to make a dinner
reservation for you.
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Where: ?
When: ?
Number of guests: ?
Special request: ?
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The end
• Giving feedback
• Assign homework
• The next lesson is…
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