Visiting Hong Kong Series 1 - What Would You Like to Order?
Module
Cultures of the World
Unit
Travelling and Visiting
Key Stage Targets (KS3)
To develop an ever-improving capability to use English
- to converse and exchange points of view about feelings, interests, preferences, ideas, experiences and plans (I.D.b)
- to obtain and provide objects, services and information in real and simulated situations (I.D.e)
- to respond to characters, events and issues in imaginative and other narrative texts through oral, written and performative means such as relating to one’s experiences (E.D.b)
Programme Outline
The Visiting Hong Kong Series aims at exposing students to English used outside the classroom and to things and places where visitors to Hong Kong frequently do or go to. In this programme, students are provided with an opportunity to practise taking orders and ordering food and drinks in different situations.
The story starts with Peter and his sister, Anna welcoming their cousin Mandy and her husband, Sam to Hong Kong. For lunch, Peter and Anna take Mandy and Sam to a dim sum restaurant. For afternoon tea, they go to a hotel to try out a traditional afternoon tea set. In the evening they are on board an evening cruise to see Hong Kong’s fantastic harbour view. Would you like to join them?
To wrap up the programme, there are learning activities in which students participate in taking orders from tourists in a Chinese restaurant.
Communicative Functions
1. Invite, make and refuse suggestions and proposals
2. Offer one’s services
3. Seek information and respond to enquiries
4. Express preferences, ideas and plans
5. Pay a simple compliment
Suggested Activities
1. Motivate the class by showing them some photos or magazine pictures of food such as dim sum and popular Chinese dishes
2. Invite individual students to tell what kind of food they would like to introduce to visitors to Hong Kong and why
3. Introduce the language focus of the programme:
l Ordering food and drinks and taking orders;
l Accepting food politely;
l Offering food and declining the offer politely; and
l Asking for and giving information about food
Introduce and distribute (COPYMASTER 1) the key language structures to the class.
l Would you like to have some tea?
l Are you ready to order now, Sir?
l Right away, Sir.
l Would you like to try a deep fried spring roll?
l Yes. I’d love to.
l Can I get you something to drink?
l Would you like something to drink?
l That’s hand-made noodles, very popular with our customers. Would you like to try some?
l Would you like to try our dinner set?
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While-viewing Activities
LANGUAGE FOCUS COPYMASTER 2
a. Ask students to follow and read aloud the replayed dialogues (COPYMASTER 2a).
b. Look and tell the names of dim sum (COPYMASTER 2b)
Pictures of dim sum will be shown on the screen. Ask students to read out the names of the dim sum.
The answers are:
1. Siu maai
2. Deep-fried spring rolls
3. Char siu sou, Barbarcued pork in pastry
4. Custard tarts
5. Deep-fried vegetable dumplings
6. Chicken feet
c. Review exercises COPYMASTER 3
l Afternoon tea – the segment will be replayed and some questions will be asked. Ask students to watch and answer the questions. (COPYMASTER 3a)
1. What does Mandy want to eat?
Answer: A scone with jam and some cream
2. What does Sam want to eat?
Answer: A small ham sandwich
3. What does Peter want to eat?
Answer: Chocolate, strawberry and cheese cake
4. What does Anna want to eat?
Answer: A cucumber sandwich
l Harbour Cruise - the segment will be replayed and some questions will be asked. Ask students to watch and answer the questions. (COPYMASTER 3b)
1. How does the waiter ask what people want?
Answer: Can I get you something to drink?
2. What does Anna answer?
Answer: I’d love an orange juice.
LEARNING ACTIVITIES COPYMASTER 4
A. Watch and listen to the dialogue in COPYMASTER 4 and fill in the blanks.
Answers:
1. Would you like something to drink, sir?
2. Are you ready to order now, sir?
3. Would you like to try some?
4. Actually would you like to try our dinner set?
5. Well, we’ll start with the soup first.
6. This dish is fried prawns in chili sauce.
7. This is seafood soup. Enjoy your dinner.
B. Post-viewing Activity - Role play
Ask students to form a group of four. First practise the dialogue in
COPYMASTER 4 and then present the dialogue to the class. Ask them to take turns to be the waitress/waiter. After that, ask the students to write their own dialogue using the expressions they have learned. One student can be the waitress or waiter taking orders from the others.
COPYMASTER 1
Language focus
The following key language structures appear frequently in the programme:
l Would you like to have some tea?l Are you ready to order now, Sir?
l Right away, Sir.
l Would you like to try a deep fried spring roll?
l I’d love to.
l Can I get you something to drink?
l Would you like something to drink?
l That’s hand-made noodles, very popular with our customers. Would you like to try some?
l Would you like to try our dinner set?
COPYMASTER 2
LANGUAGE FOCUS
While-viewing Activities (COPYMASTER 2a)Some dialogues in the Dim Sum restaurant will be played a second time.
Please follow and read aloud while watching:
Ordering Food and Drinks and Taking Orders
1. Ordering Tea
Waitress: Would you like to have some tea?
Peter: What teas do you have?
Waitress: We have Shoumei, Boulei, Heungpin, which is Jasmine tea, and many
more.
Peter: Good. Bring us some Jasmine tea, please.
Waitress: Certainly.
2. Ordering dim sum
Waitress: Are you ready to order now, Sir?
Peter: Yes, we are. We’ll have one “siu maai”, one “hagaau”, , one “char siu
sou”, one steamed beef balls and one plate of deep-fried spring rolls,
please.
Waitress: Right away, Sir.
3. Asking for and giving information about food
Sam: This looks really good.Peter: They’re deep-fried spring rolls. Would you like to try one?
Sam: What’s it got in it?
Peter: Some pork and shrimp. And here’s some vinegar sauce. Have a dip in it.
The spring roll will taste even better.
4. Offering food and accepting food politely
Sam: Mm. It’s great. May I have another one?
Peter: Of course. Here you are.
Peter: And how about you, Mandy? Would you like to try a deep fried spring roll?
Mandy: Yes, I’d love to.
(COPYMASTER 2a) Cont’d
5. Offering and Declining food Politely
Captain: And have you tried any chicken feet before? It’s our specialty.
You should take the chance to try it while you’re in Hong Kong.
Mandy: Chicken feet? I’d like to try them but Mm…I’m afraid there’s too much
food. Maybe next time.
(COPYMASTER 2b)Let’s review.
Can you say the names of the dim sum?
Pictures of the following dim sum will be shown on the screen.
Please read out the names of the dim sum in the right order:
Deep-fried vegetable dumplings
“Char siu sou”, Barbarcued pork in pastry
Custard tarts
Chicken feet
“Siu maai”
Deep-fried spring rolls
COPYMASTER 3
While-viewing Activities
(COPYMASTER 3a)Review exercise – Afternoon tea
The segment will be replayed. Choose the following to answer the questions:
A cucumber sandwich
Chocolate, strawberry and cheese cake
A scone with jam and some cream
A small ham sandwich
1. What does Mandy want to eat?
2. What does Sam want to eat?
3. What does Peter want to eat?
4. What does Anna want to eat?
(COPYMASTER 3b)
Review exercise – Harbour Cruise
The segment will be replayed.
Please answer the following questions:
1. How does the waiter ask what people want?
2. What does Anna answer?
COPYMASTER 4
LEARNING ACTIVITIES – Taking Orders
While-viewing activityYou are a waiter/waitress. Do you know what to say to your customers?
Now watch and listen to the dialogue and fill in the blanks.
Waitress: ______something to drink, Sir?
Customer 1: Yes, we’d like some tea, please.
Waitress: Right away, Sir.
Customer 1: Thank you.
Waitress: Are you ready ______now, sir?
Customer 1: Mm… Just give us a minute, please.
Waitress: Certainly.
Customer 1: Any suggestions?
Customer 2: So many dishes.
Customer 3: Hey look. That’s interesting. Excuse me. What’s the chef making?
Waitress: That’s hand-made noodles. Very popular with our customers.
Would you like to ______?
Customer 1: Shall we?
Customer 3: Yes. Good idea.
Customer 1: Okay. We’ll have some hand-made noodles.
Waitress: Would you like the noodles fried with pork?
Customer 1: Yes, please.
Customer 3: Oh. What’s that?
Waitress: Oh, that’s barbecued Peking duck. Very popular with our customers too.
Customer 3: That looks nice. Like to try the barbecued Peking duck?
All: Yes! Yes!
Waitress: Actually, would you like to try our ______? You’ll have both the barbecued Peking duck and the hand-made noodles and some more dishes.
Cusomer 1: That’s a good suggestion. What else do you have in the dinner set?
Waitress: Well, we’ll start with the ______first. And then you’ll have some scallops, and then some prawns and the fish.
Customer 1: Okay. Let’s try the dinner set, shall we?
Customer 3: Yes.
(When the food is being served)
Waitress: This ______is fried prawns in chili sauce.
Those are scallops.
This dish is fried handmade noodles.
And this dish is fried fish in sweet and sour sauce.
This is seafood soup. ______.
Post-viewing Activity
Role play
Now form a group of four. First practise the dialogue in COPYMASTER 4 and then present the dialogue to the class. You can take turns to be the waitress or waiter. After that, write your own dialogue using the expressions you have learned. One student can be the waitress or waiter taking orders from the others.
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