Week 18 · Food & Restaurants — My Culture Connect

Language target語言目標

Food vocabulary; preferences; ordering; polite complaints.

Seasonal / Taiwan connection季節與台灣連結

Food culture: students can build a bilingual-style menu featuring Taiwanese and American foods.

Power vocabulary核心字彙 · 9 words · 中文與例句由 MCC 補充

ingredientn.食材What ingredients are in this sauce?可數 · 常用複數
appetizern.前菜We ordered two appetizers to share.美式 · 英式說 starter
main coursen.主菜My main course was grilled fish.兩個字 · 美式也說 entrée（注意：不是前菜）
dessertn.甜點Do you have room for dessert?兩個 s · desert（一個 s）是沙漠
spicyadj.辣的Is the beef noodle soup very spicy?hot 也可以指辣，但 hot 也指燙 · 要講清楚就用 spicy
sweetadj.甜的Taiwanese sausage is a little sweet.也可以形容人：she is sweet（親切）
savoryadj.鹹香的I prefer savory breakfasts to sweet ones.中文沒有完全對應的字 · 就是「不甜、帶鹹香」
vegetarianadj. / n.素食的；素食者Do you have a vegetarian option?vegan 更嚴格（不吃蛋奶）
allergyn.過敏I have a peanut allergy.allergy (n.) · allergic (adj.)：I'm allergic to peanuts

The lesson, minute by minute · 課堂流程

60 minutes, four moves

0–10 min
Homework review複習作業every week · 每週相同
Review last week's assignment. Ask 2–3 students to share. Correct one common error and celebrate one strong example.
10–20 min
Vocabulary單字every week · 每週相同
Teach 5–10 target words. Always include: meaning, Chinese equivalent when useful, example, synonym, antonym, and/or word family.
35–50 min
Fun / application應用活動
Restaurant Role-Play: customer, server, chef, and food critic. Add one surprise problem.
50–57 min
Challenge / exit ticket挑戰與出場券every week · 每週相同
Each student produces something before leaving: a sentence, answer, mini-story, explanation, role-play, or spoken response. Keep it quick and visible.

Teaching pack · 教學包

Ready to run, no preparation

Activities you can read straight off this page, written to fit the blocks above.
可以直接照著這一頁上的活動，對應上面每一段課堂流程。

Who wrote what The lesson plan above is Dom Jones's, including her choice of this week's power vocabulary. The Chinese, the example sentences and the practice sets below are added by My Culture Connect so the plan can be taught without preparation.
上面的教案出自 Dom Jones，包括本週核心字彙的選擇；下面的中文、例句與練習由人師教育協會補充，讓這份教案不必備課就能上。

Restaurant Role-Play · with one surprise

餐廳角色扮演・附一個意外

Dom's role-play, with the surprise problems written out. Four roles, and the surprise goes only to the server — nobody else knows it is coming, which is what makes the English real.
Dom 的角色扮演，意外事件已經寫好。四個角色，意外只給服務生看——其他人不知道會發生什麼，英語才會是真的。

Roles: customer · server · chef · food critic
Surprise ① The dish the customer ordered is sold out.
Surprise ② The food arrives cold.
Surprise ③ There is meat in the vegetarian dish.
Surprise ④ The bill is $200 more than it should be.
The critic must say one kind thing and one honest thing at the end.

The trap · 'I want' is not for restaurants

陷阱・餐廳裡不說 I want

This is not grammar, it is register — and register is invisible to a learner. 我要 is neutral in Chinese; I want is blunt in English. The fix is three phrases, and they work in every shop and counter in the world.
這不是文法問題，是語域問題——而語域對學習者是看不見的。中文的「我要」是中性的，英文的 I want 卻很直。解法就三句話，全世界的店和櫃台都通用。

✗ I want a hamburger.　✓ I'll have the hamburger, please.
✓ Could I get the beef noodles?　✓ I'd like the dumplings, please.
Asking: What do you recommend? · What is this dish like?
Your turn — fix this: ✗ I want water. ✗ Give me the bill.

Your bilingual menu · six dishes

你的雙語菜單・六道菜

Dom's homework is a menu, so start it here. The hard part is not translating the name — it is describing what is in it so a foreigner can decide. One line each, ingredients plus one taste word.
Dom 的作業是菜單，在這裡先起頭。難的不是翻譯菜名，是描述裡面有什麼、讓外國人能決定要不要點。一道一句，食材加一個味道形容詞。

滷肉飯 → Braised pork rice: rice with savory slow-cooked pork. Not spicy.
鹽酥雞 → ______
珍珠奶茶 → ______
臭豆腐 → ______ (warn them!)
Template: ______ : ______ with ______ . It is ______ .

Exit ticket · order something, politely

出場券・禮貌地點一道菜

One order and one question. If the order starts with 'I want', it goes back.
一句點餐、一句提問。開頭是 I want 的退回重寫。

I'll have ______ , please.
And could you tell me ______ ?

Prep · 備課 No preparation needed. The single most useful thing you can teach this week is not a food word — it is that 'I want' does not belong in a restaurant. Chinese 我要一個漢堡 is perfectly polite; the word-for-word English sounds like a small child. Teach 'I'll have' and 'Could I get' in the first ten minutes.
不必備課。這週最有用的不是任何一個食物單字，而是「I want 不能用在餐廳」。中文說「我要一個漢堡」完全禮貌，逐字翻成英文卻像小孩子在講話。前十分鐘就把 I'll have 和 Could I get 教下去。

Week 18 · Food & Restaurants