Ordering Food in Spanish
Restaurant Unit with Menus & Role-Plays · Spanish 1
- Grades
- Grades 7–10
- Formats
- Google Slides, PDF, PowerPoint
- Pages
- 44
- Answer keys
- Included
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Ordering food in Spanish becomes real in this no-prep Spanish 1 restaurant unit. Students read three realistic menus from a taquería in Mexico City (pesos), a cafetería in Madrid with a menú del día (euros) and a café in Lima (soles), then talk their way through information-gap menus, server and customer role-plays, a listening activity and a Lotería-style food game. Rich, accurate and ready to print or assign digitally.
What's included
- Teacher guide with 10-day pacing, materials, differentiation (support, on level, challenge) and step-by-step directions for every activity
- Standards page: ACTFL World-Readiness Standards, Novice Mid to Novice High can-do goals and CCSS math for the bill and tip questions
- 2 vocabulary reference pages with 60+ picture words (meals, foods, drinks, table items, restaurant words) plus regional words (papas/patatas, aguacate/palta, jugo/zumo)
- Vocabulary practice page
- Restaurant phrases for customers and servers (Quisiera…, Me gustaría…, ¿Qué desea?, La cuenta, por favor)
- Tú, usted y ustedes mini-lesson and practice
- Me gusta / me gustan mini-lesson with a partner interview
- Number chart and price practice with Spanish number words in pesos, euros, soles and dollars (decimal point vs. decimal comma)
- 3 full-page menus (Mexico City, Madrid, Lima), each with a 10-question reading page
- Compare-the-menus chart with regional food words
- Model dialogue and fill-in dialogue
- Information gap: Students A and B each get a Salvadoran pupusería menu with 8 missing prices
- 16 role-play cards (8 customer, 8 server) and comanda order pads
- Teacher listening script with a student response page (price dictation + 3 restaurant scenes)
- Culture reading on meal times, la sobremesa and tipping in Mexico, Peru, Spain and the US
- La cuenta y la propina: 3 bills to complete, check, tip, round up and split
- Lotería-style food game: 24 calling cards with Spanish clues + 8 different boards
- Create-your-own-menu project with a 20-point rubric
- Interpersonal speaking rubric with a student self-check
- 6 exit tickets
- 2-page quiz (35 points)
- Complete answer keys
How to use it
Use it as a 2-week food and restaurant unit in Spanish 1 (grades 7–10), or pull single pages for stations, sub days, speaking assessments and review. Teacher pages are in English; student pages give Spanish directions followed by English. All prices are practice prices, and no exchange rates are used.
Skills practiced
Food and restaurant vocabularyordering politelytú vs. ustedme gusta / me gustannumbers and pricesmenu readinglisteningspeakingculture comparisonsbills and tips
