Manger au restaurant final
- 1. Manger au Restaurant Food and Food Culture Unit Madame McCormack Francais 1 Grades 9 th-12th Adapted from: Basic French: French Restaurant Vocabulary
- 2. Content Standards and Objectives California World Language Standards: • WL.CM2.I Participate in real - world, spoken, written, or signed conversations related to self and the immediate environment. Create sentences and strings of sentences to ask and answer a variety of questions in transactional and some informal settings. • WL.CL1.I Interact with understanding in a variety of familiar age -appropriate transactional situations and common daily and informal settings. Language Objective: • Students will be able to order drinks and food in French Content Objective: • Students will be able to create short sentences to ask and answer questions
- 3. Food and Food Culture This lesson will focus on restaurant culture in France. We will discuss basic restaurant etiquette, how to order food, and how to ask for the bill/check.
- 4. Et Vous? Think about the last time you ate in a restaurant. How were you seated? Did someone seat you or did you seat yourself? How did you order food? Did someone take your order right away or did you have to get their attention? Describe the food service. Was the waiter/waitress attentive? Did you have to signal you were ready for the check? Discuss with a partner and note your experiences under American restaurant service in your notebook.
- 5. Where are you eating? À la terrasse ? À l’intérieur ?
- 6. Getting a table This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY Bonjour ! Vous êtes combien ? This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA Bonjour ! On est quatre.
- 7. How to order in a restaurant
- 8. Le Verbe Prendre Irregular verb Je prends Nous prenons Tu prends Vous prenez Il/Elle/On prend Ils/Elles prennent
- 9. Etiquette: Be polite Greeting • Always say Bonjour when entering a restaurant (or any establishment) Ordering and during the meal • Excusez-moi… • Je pourrais… • C’est possible de…? • Vous pouvez… s’il vous plaît? Merci! End of meal • L’ addition, s’il vous plaît. • Merci, bonne journée/aprés midi/journée ! Use Vous Use the conditional (Voudrais/Aimerais) Do not use Tu Do not use l’indicatif (Je veux)
- 10. Check for understanding Respond to the classroom poll at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/M9HCLR3
- 11. Phrases to use when ordering If you are ordering first Je voudrais/J’aimerais… I would like… Je vais prendre… I will take… If you are ordering after someone Pour moi, ce sera… For me it will be…
- 12. More Phrases • Qu’est-ce que vous nous conseillez? What would you recommend? • Est qu’il y a des plats végétarien ? Are there any vegetarian meals? • Vous pouvez nous apporter de l’eau, s’il vous plait ? Could you bring us some water, please?
- 13. Partitive Articles • Refers to an unspecified quantity Du De la De l’ De l’ Des Des Masculine Feminine Singular Plural
- 14. Exemple • Je veux un gateau (I want a cake) Je veux du gateau (I want some cake)
- 15. La Nourriture J’ai faim Des croissants Une pizza Une salade avocat Des sushis
- 16. Les Boissons J’ai soif This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY Une carafe d'eau This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA Un Coca Un thé Un café
- 17. Now you try! With a partner, take turns practicing ordering food. Make sure to order at least one food item and one drink item. Practice using the phrases we just learned.
- 18. Ending the Meal This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY D’accord ! Je vais la apporter. This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA Excusez-moi ! Nous avons terminés. L’addition, s’il vous plaît.
- 19. Alerte ! Faux Ami ! • When finished with your meal say : J’ai terminé/ Nous avons terminé. • Je suis fini.e = I am dead.
- 20. More Restaurant Etiquette and Culture
- 21. Culture Comparison Having written down information about French dinning experience, create a double bubble map on a new page. Label the left bubble “American restaurants” and the right bubble “French restaurants” Include information about dinning culture and etiquette of both cultures. We will then create a graph together as a class.
- 22. Restaurant comic strip Now that you have explored French dinning and made some comparisons between America and France, you will create a comic strip of an American tourist going out to eat with their French friend. Include some “faux pas” the American might make and their friend’s corrections. The goal of the comic is to teach your audience the basic of restaurant culture in France. You may work alone or with a partner.
Editor's Notes
- #6: Most restaurants have outdoor and indoor seating. Eating outside is extremely popular as people like to order a café and spend an hour people watching or reading. Outside seating is usually self-seating while indoor seating can be either self-seating or seated by a host(ess) (maître d’).
- #8: Before watching the video have students create another column in their notebook labelled “French Restaurant Experience” Students should write notes from the video into that column
- #10: There’s a stereotype that French people, especially Parisians, are cold/rude. This, however, tends to be a misunderstanding due to language barriers and cultural differences. French people appreciate foreigners attempting to speak French and will often be warmer and more willing to help those who do. In France, always great the employee of any establishment by saying “Bonjour!” It is extremely rude not to, and sometimes an employee may comment on it.
- #20: Many English speakers make the mistake of saying Je suis fini when they are trying to say, “I am finished” This is because in English we used to be. However, when if you use etre in French you are saying you are finished ie You are dead. You can use avoir: J’ai fini (I have finished) or J’ai terminé.
- #21: Remind students to continue their notetaking in “French Restaurant Experience”