UNIT

ENTERTAINING
13
UNIT
GOALS
RECOMMENDING INVITING AND RESPONDING
BRAINSTORM
What food do you like and dislike? Why?
What food should visitors to your country try?

A. Work in pairs. Tick the correct ways of recommending food in a
restaurant. Then take turns to make recommendations and
respond.
WHAT DO YOU RECOMMEND? RESPONSE
I recommend the steak You will have the noodles OK. Ill have that.
The chicken is good here I suggest the curry
Sounds delicious. Ill try
it.
Eat the salad Its up to you
Im sorry. I dont like
seafood much
You should try the
shrimp.

Im afraid I dont eat red
meat.
B.Take turns to make recommendations and respond.
This
restaurant
is famous
for Nem.
You should
try some.
Sounds delicious.
Ill try it.
A. Helen is visiting London. Anchalee has taken her to a Thai
restaurant. Listen to their conversation. Tick the things Helen likes
eating and put a cross next to the things she doesnt like eating.
(there are 3 things she doesnt mention)
Red meat Salad
Chicken Soup
Fried food Rice
Seafood Sweet food
Spicy food Fish
Vegetarian food Fruit

B. Listen again. Complete the sentences and tick the
suggestions that Helen likes
1. A spicy .made with lemon grass and chilli
2. Some ..fried with cashew nuts
3. ..with oyster sauce
4. .with pepper and garlic

Look at the words below. Which describe how things are
cooked? Which describe how thing taste? Complete the table
How things are cooked How things taste
Sweet Steamed Spicy Hot
Boiled Salty Sour Fried
Grilled Baked Savoury Roasted
4. REPORTING
A. Choose a dish that visitors to your country might like to try.
Write a description. Use the questions below and the words
from 3-Vocabulary to help you
1. Whats it called?
2. Whats it made of? Whats in it?
3. How its cooked?
4. How does it taste?
B. Report your ideas to the class.

You are a visitor
to student As
country
You are the host. Your
partner is a visitor to
your country
You are both in a restaurant for a business dinner
Say what you like or ask the host to recommend
something.

Ask what the visitor likes eating

When you finish - Change roles

Recommend something. You could use your ideas from
4-reporting.

Ask questions (taste? Cooked? Made of?)

Answer the questions

Say you want or you dont want what the host
recommend
What would you like to do on a visit to another country? Tick the
boxes. Can you add any more ideas to the list? Compare you ideas
with a partner
Go shopping Go sightseeing Watch a typical sport
Go to a restaurant Visit a museum Visit a factory
Go to the countryside Go to the theatre
A. Choose the correct phrase to complete the invitation
Would you like
have dinner with
us this evening?
Would you liking
Would you like to
B. Which of the following is not a polite response to the
invitation above? Why not?
Oh, Im sorry. I cant
Yes, that would be nice
Yes, Id love to
Oh, thank you, but
No, Im not hungry
C. Put the other four responses under the correct heading in
the tables
Accept, then ask a question Dont accept,then give a reason
What kind of restaurant
can we go to?
What time shall we
meet?
Im meeting a relative
this evening.
Im very tired after my
flight

A. Track 59-62. listen to four people inviting someone to do
something. In each conversation, what is the invitation for, and does
the person accept it? Complete the first two columns in the table.
Invitation for? Accept?Yes/No Question or reason
1 Dinner What.?
2 No Im meeting.
3 Im
4 Who..?

B. Work in pairs to practice the conversation. Take turns to invite
each other, using your notes in the table
Would you
like to have
dinner
tonight?
Yes, Id love to.
What time?

Look at your list in 1- Brainstorming. Take turns to invite other
students to do activities with you
Go shopping Go sightseeing Watch a typical sport
Go to a restaurant Visit a museum Visit a factory
Go to the countryside Go to the theatre
A. Read these invitations. Who are they from? Which one is
more formal?
B. Judy Jackson does not accept the invitations. Her replies are
mixed up below. Which parts did she write to Lucia, and which to
Trimstein?
C. Write a short email to Lucia, accepting her invitation and
asking some questions
Dear Lucia,