Develop Your Reading Skills. “Eating Out”. 7th Grade Text “Out of the Ordinary”

Develop Your Reading. “Eating Out”. 7^th  Grade

Text “Out of the Ordinary”

1.                   Answer the questions

1.                   Where do you prefer to eat: at home or at restaurants?
2.                   On what occasion do people usually eat out in your country?
3.                   What kinds of restaurant are there in your city?
4.                   What is your favourite restaurant? Is there anything unusual about it? How often do you eat out?
5.                   Dou you know some unusual restaurant around the world? Would you like to visit them? Which one? Why?

 

2.                   Look at the title of the article and the photos. What do you think the article is about?

1.                    sightseeing
2.                     unusual restaurants
3.                     the most popular restaurants in the world

 

3.                   Look at the pictures and read the sentences. Underline what you think is true.

1.                   Most restaurants in the world try to offer good food and great service / good food or great service.
2.                   The chef at El Diablo restaurant cooks food using heat from the fire / the volcano.
3.                   At Ithaa, a restaurant in the Maldives, you can have dinner five metres below the Indian Ocean / at the beach of the Indian Ocean.
4.                   At the Café in Sri Lanka, there are hammocks / beds instead of chairs.
5.                   Zauo is a popular restaurant in Tokyo, Japan. It is a fish restaurant, the customers have to catch / cook the fish themselves.

 

4.                   Match the names of the restaurants to the photos.

1.                    The Hammock Café
2.                     Dinner in the Sky
3.                     Ithaa Undersea Restaurant
4.                    Zauo, a fish restaurant

 

 

 

 

5.                   Read the text. Match headings to each paragraph. One is extra

1.                    Are you sitting comfortably?
2.                     Location, location, location
3.                     Work for your food
4.                    To eat or not to eat
5.                     Competing for customers

Out of the Ordinary

1___________________________

There are hundreds of the restaurants in every big city. Often they serve similar food at similar prices – so how do they attract customers?  Most restaurants try to offer good food and great service – and they hope customers come back again and again. But some restaurants offer a gimmick – something unusual to make their restaurants different from all the others.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2___________________________

Sometimes the gimmick is the restaurant’s location. El Diablo, on the Spanish island of Lanzarote, is on a volcano. The chef uses heat from the volcano to cook the food. Or how about an underwater restaurant? At Ithaa, a restaurant in the Maldives, you can have dinner five metres below the Indian Ocean and watch sharks and turtles while you eat. Or you can go to the other extreme and choose Dinner in the Sky. Here, customers enjoy their meal at a special table 50 metres in the air. The company has restaurants in 45 different countries. It’s an amazing experience – but don’t drop your knife or fork!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3___________________________

People often complain about the seats in aeroplanes: they are uncomfortable and there isn’t enough space. So surely a restaurant inside an aeroplane is a bad idea. Well maybe not. In Accra, the capital of Ghana, you can have lunch or dinner inside an old DC-10 aeroplane. The waiter brings your food and drink on a trolley! Other restaurants offer extra comfort. At the Hammock Café in Sri Lanka, there are hammocks instead of chairs. And at B.E.D. in Miami, Florida, there are only beds. On each bed there is a candle and a tray.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4___________________________

People go to restaurants to eat, chat with their friends and relax. But some restaurants ask their customers to work for their food. Zauo is a popular restaurant in Tokyo, Japan. It is a fish restaurant, but the customers do not order their fish from the menu – they have to catch it. Inside the restaurant, all of the tables are on artificial boat, with water all around. There are different fish in different parts of the water. They choose their fish and then try to catch it.

 

6.                   Consult a dictionary. What do the underlined words from the text mean?

1.                   Often they serve similar food at similar prices – so how do they attract customers?

1.                    a person who buys goods or a service
2.                     a person of a specified kind with whom one has to deal
3.                     a person who cooks food at the restaurant

2.                   But some restaurants offer a gimmick

1.                    a discount
2.                     a trick intended to attract attention
3.                     a present from the chef of the restaurant

3.                   Most restaurants try to offer good food and great service

1.                    the action of helping or doing work for someone.
2.                     perform routine maintenance or repair work on (a vehicle or machine)
3.                     to supply with aid, information

4.                   It is a fish restaurant, but the customers do not order their fish from the menu – they have to catch it.

1.                    a list of commands or facilities displayed on screen
2.                     a place for keeping fish
3.                     a list of the dishes served at a meal, esp. in a restaurant

 

7.                   Complete the sentences using words from the text

1.                   __________ is the help and attention you get from the restaurant.
2.                   __________ are people who pay to eat in a restaurant.
3.                   You use a __________ to cut food on your plate.
4.                   You use a __________ to hold the food while you cut it.
5.                   You can use a __________ to carry a lot of drinks at the same time.
6.                   A __________ cooks the food in a restaurant or café.
7.                   The __________ is a list of the food and drink you can order.
8.                   A __________ serves customers in a restaurant.

 

8.  Choose restaurants you’d like to visit and those you wouldn’t like. Give your reasons.

 

 

 

 

 

 

9.                   The people below all want to go to a restaurant. Decide which restaurant(s) would be the most suitable for the following people. Give your reasons.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.                 Fill in the table, answering the questions.

 

What I already know about the restaurants	What I want to find out about the restaurants	What I’ve learnt about the restaurants

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Keys

Out of the Ordinary

Task 2

B

 

Task 3

1 good food and great service

2 the volcano

3 five metres below the Indian Ocean

4 hammocks

5 catch

 

Task 4

1C

2B

3A

4D

 

Task 5

1 E

2 B

3A

4 C

 D – extra

 

Task 6

1 A

 2 B

3A

4 C

 

Task 7

1 Service

2 Customers

3 Knife

4 Fork

 

5 Tray

6 Chef

7 Menu

8 Waiter