En el restaurante: Menús de países hispanohablantes (Year 7)

This resource is a market place activity in which students have to work in groups in a carrousel style.

Every group has the vocab sheet to gather vocab and create their own glossary plus a reading comprehension sheet to fill in whilst they have the menu. It is important that students divide the work up: some can look up the vocabulary whilst the others can answer the questions. Or, they could all spend some minutes looking up the words first and then answering the questions. You can use the stopwatch website and its timers so that students can see how much time they have left.

The aim is that they read the menus and that they get to learn about other countries and their famous dishes whilst consolidating some of the Food vocab they learnt in previous lessons.

There are menus for a Basque restaurant, a Catalan restaurant, a Mexican restaurant and the last one is a menu from Costa Rica.

This activity takes up the whole hour (if you get every group to look at 2 menus) and I used it at the end of the Food Unit.

You can also use the menus for Role Plays the next lesson.

If your groups do 2 menus then you can get your students to talk to the rest about the food they learnt that people eat in those countries.

I used this activity with a Y7 class and it worked very well. Students were engaged and they loved the role plays we did the following lesson.

As a follow up activity you could ask them to design their own menus of other Spanish speaking countries. They could use the computers to do some research and then do their designs.