Teacher Information

CAPÍTULO 15
En el restaurante

• Familiarize students with Spanish restaurants and menu vocabulary

Notes

• In Antes de navegar, you have to tell students what their food allowance is in pesetas for their night out in the Spanish city of their choice. Randomly assign each student one of the following amounts: 3,000 pesetas ($20); 3,700 pesetas ($25); 4,500 pesetas ($30); 5,300 pesetas ($35), 6,000 pesetas ($40), or other amounts of your choosing. Please note that the currency conversion rates are approximate. If you want students to use exact amounts, have them convert the dollars to pesetas using the Universal Currency Converter™ link in Chapter 6.

• Since students are on a budget, tell them to go directly to the menus for each restaurant to determine whether or not they can afford to eat there.

• As you know, restaurant vocabulary is often very difficult. Encourage students to do their best to figure out the menu as they order dinner at the restaurant of their choice. In the Después de navegar activity, they are asked to look up any unknown words from the menu in the dictionary. They may be surprised by what they ordered!

• Allow students to write down any features of the restaurant for Características del restaurante in the chart on their worksheet. They might want to describe the food specialties, ambience, location of the restaurant, number of rooms, etc.

• Additional vocabulary useful for this activity:

Expansion

• Have students do Communicative Activity C, on page 417 in the textbook again using the real restaurant menus that they will have downloaded and printed out for this activity.
• Have students write a composition about their dinner.