For ITA students who want to do cloze exercises or something, I have transcribed the video below for your use! DINING OUT Lori: Hi I'm Lori, I'll be your waitress today. Can I get you anything to drink? Man: Just water. Lori: Would you like bottled or regular? Man: Regular. Lori: And for you? Woman: I’ll have a diet soda. Lori: Great, I’ll be right back. ORDERING L: Have you decided what you'd like, or do you need some more time? W: I’ll have the grilled chicken and a dinner salad. L: And what kind of dressing would you like? W: What kind do you have? L: Italian, blue cheese, and French. W: I’ll have the Italian, and can you serve that on the side? L: Of course. And for you, sir? M: The peppered salmon, is that very spicy? L: Yes… M: Oh, I don’t like spicy. I'll have the steak. L: And how would you like that cooked? M: Medium, please. L: All right, so that's chicken with salad, Italian dressing on the side, and one steak, medium. W: Yes. L: Thank you! SERVING L: Be careful, it’s hot. Can I get that for you? W: Yes please. L: And is there anything else I can get you? M: May I have a steak knife? L: Of course, I’ll get that right away. - L: How is everything? M: Excellent! W: Very good. L: Great! FINISHING THE MEAL L: Are you still working on that, or shall I wrap that up for you? W: I’m done. M: I’ll take this to go. L: Would you like a dessert menu? M: Yes, please. L: Would you like coffee? M: Yes. W: I’ll have some too. L: Cream and sugar? M: I’d like some cream. W: I’ll have sugar. ORDERING DESSERT L: Have you decided what you’d like for dessert? M: I'll have the chocolate cake. L: And for you? W: I'll have the cheesecake. L: Excellent, I'll be right back. GET THE CHECK L: Did you enjoy your meal? W: It was wonderful. L: Can I get you anything else? Or should I get your check? M: We'll take the check. L: Thank you for coming!
It's really agood vieo and covers all aspects of the conversation at restaurant for ordering the food. The costumers and waitress are the beautiful. I love watching your videos cos it's short and so sweet too. Pls prepare more such videos on other aspects of the English conversation.
This is good, covers all the basics. The restaurant experience is different in China and this really shows how a restaurant meal is different in terms of interactions with the waitress.
Waitress: Hi I´m Lori, I´ll be you waitress today. Can I get you anything to drink? Him: Just water Waitress: Would you like bottled or regular? Him: Regular. Waitress: and for you? Her: I´ll have a diet soda. Waitress: Great. I´ll be right back. ORDERING Waitress: Have you decided what you´d like? or do you need some more time? Her: I´ll have the grilled chicken and a dinner salad. Waitress: and what kind of dressing would you like? Her: what kind do you have? Waitress: Italian, blue cheese and French. Her: I´ll have the Italian, and can you serve that on the side? Waitress: of course, and you sir? Him: The peppered salmon is very spicy? Waitress: yes Him: I don´t like spicy. I´ll have the steak. Waitress: and how would you like that cooked? Him: Medium please. Waitress: Alright, so that´s chicken with salad, Italian dressing on the side, and one steak medium. Him: yes Waitress: thank you SERVING Waitress: be careful is hot. Can I get that to you? Her: yes please. Waitress: and is there anything else I can get you? Him: may I have a steak knife? Waitress: of course. I´ll get that right away. How is everything? Him: Excellent Her: Very good. Waitress: Great FINISHING THE MEAL Waitress: Are you still working on that? Or shall I wrap it up for you? Her: I´m done Him: I´ll take this to go. Waitress: Would you like a dessert menu? Him: Yes please. Waitress: Would you like coffee? Him: Yes Her: I´ll have some too Waitress: cream or sugar? Him: I´ll like some cream. Her: I´ll have sugar. ORDERING DESSERT Waitress: Have you decided what you´d like for dessert? Him: I´ll have the chocolate cake. Waitress: and for you? Her: I´ll have the cheesecake. Waitress: Excellent, I´ll be right back. GET THE CHECK Waitress: Did you enjoy your meal? Her: It was wonderful! Waitress: Can I get you anything else, or should I get your check?? Him: We´ll take the check. Waitress: thank you for coming.
Questions: What did the guy choose for a drink? What did the girl choose for a drink? What did the guy order for the main course? What did the girl order for the main course? Does the guy like spicy dishes? Who ordered a cheesecake? Did they like the food and service?
@sylas yufayyur The person who made this video included subtitles... they intended for them to be seen and read and understood. This is a video for educational purposes, not a real life interaction. It should be written correctly if its included in the video. It is important if someone is writing in English to know the difference between using "to" and "too".
When I started planning my lesson the first thing I taught them was that they must say please and thank you. I would consider these customers to be quite rude.
great!!, with this grammar and pronunsations we can speak fluently...please sharing us more videos like this...gracias amigos, esperamos estar mas en contacto
Kyle Cott So, there should not be a question mark after 'check', is that what you are referring to? Also it would be better to say 'have the check' rather than 'take', but maybe that's American English to say 'take the check'.
Storm4155 yeah, this is a common American phrase. At least in the Midwest "I'll take the check" is more common than "I'll have the check" (I often ask "Can I get the check?")
Advice to the next class: Play this at .75 and it sounds slightly better. Also subtitles do need a rework, but that's been mentioned before. These aren't actors, so its understandably not going to be a quality performance, but there are a few errors which make this not work well for its purpose. It is almost a requirement to slow the playback speed for this to be usable for beginners as the lesson mentions.
I wouldn't show this video to my ESL class, those schmuck customers didn't say please and thank you once. There's enough rude English customers already, smh.
Yes, I carefully studied real conversations at nice restaurants to get this dialogue. If you want clever dialogue study great movies. It takes years to learn to write great dialogue, that's why you won't find any in textbooks.
We use both words interchangeably. In the Southern part of the US you may even here the word "ticket" used to refer to a bill or check but you would never hear "ticket" in other parts of the US.
I'm from the US, and I prefer the term "bill" myself. The term "check" seems strange to me, but it's commonly used, so you kind of have to get used to it if you're in the US.
Hi. I teach English in Vietnam. My school concentrates on speaking and listening and for higher level learners we have introduced 4 specific topics: Food and Beverage, Travel, Shopping, and Entertainment/Free Time Activities. Part of the course is for students to do their own study. We are sourcing various videos and audio links which students need to watch or listen to, and then they need to answer questions about it. After seeing your video, I was wondering if it would be possible to use various snippets from it for this self-study segment? Many thanks, Mr D
Often it is, yes. It depends on the type of restaurant. High-end/expensive restaurants will expect you to sit for a long time and will not ask you if you want the bill/check. Less expensive/more busy restaurants will have many tables throughout the night. Americans do not generally sit for hours like Europeans. Usually the server (we no longer use the term waiter in most big cities) will ask if you would like anything else and you will reply "just the check, thank you" or "just the bill, thank you." Sometimes a server will ask if you would like the check in very casual circumstances. Servers are very attentive in North America (they work mostly on tips) and they learn when it is appropriate to ask or not, or sometimes just bring it for "when you are ready to pay". Americans get frustrated when they travel as the custom (in Europe at least) is to leave the customers alone for long stretches of time. This would be considered rude/neglectful in North America, but it is polite in Europe, as they are allowing the customer to enjoy their meal/relax.
Don`t like the hair hanging over the shoulder. I worked in a restaurant where the waitresses carried the trays on their shoulder and sometimes their hair would a actually touch the food! Sooo gross!
For ITA students who want to do cloze exercises or something, I have transcribed the video below for your use!
DINING OUT
Lori: Hi I'm Lori, I'll be your waitress today. Can I get you anything to drink?
Man: Just water.
Lori: Would you like bottled or regular?
Man: Regular.
Lori: And for you?
Woman: I’ll have a diet soda.
Lori: Great, I’ll be right back.
ORDERING
L: Have you decided what you'd like, or do you need some more time?
W: I’ll have the grilled chicken and a dinner salad.
L: And what kind of dressing would you like?
W: What kind do you have?
L: Italian, blue cheese, and French.
W: I’ll have the Italian, and can you serve that on the side?
L: Of course. And for you, sir?
M: The peppered salmon, is that very spicy?
L: Yes…
M: Oh, I don’t like spicy. I'll have the steak.
L: And how would you like that cooked?
M: Medium, please.
L: All right, so that's chicken with salad, Italian dressing on the side, and one steak, medium.
W: Yes.
L: Thank you!
SERVING
L: Be careful, it’s hot. Can I get that for you?
W: Yes please.
L: And is there anything else I can get you?
M: May I have a steak knife?
L: Of course, I’ll get that right away.
-
L: How is everything?
M: Excellent!
W: Very good.
L: Great!
FINISHING THE MEAL
L: Are you still working on that, or shall I wrap that up for you?
W: I’m done.
M: I’ll take this to go.
L: Would you like a dessert menu?
M: Yes, please.
L: Would you like coffee?
M: Yes.
W: I’ll have some too.
L: Cream and sugar?
M: I’d like some cream.
W: I’ll have sugar.
ORDERING DESSERT
L: Have you decided what you’d like for dessert?
M: I'll have the chocolate cake.
L: And for you?
W: I'll have the cheesecake.
L: Excellent, I'll be right back.
GET THE CHECK
L: Did you enjoy your meal?
W: It was wonderful.
L: Can I get you anything else? Or should I get your check?
M: We'll take the check.
L: Thank you for coming!
thank you very much, you are the best
you are awesome
On behalf of a tired ESL teacher-- Thank you!!
omg thanks!!
Bless you!😍
This is the way people really talk. Very good for my students.
yes, these are the real conversations between the english speakers
Great video, thanks. Only one small correction, it is "I'll have some too" not to.
MotherDust why don't you mind your business bitch
Lyokonite lol
@Lyokonite thank you
It's impressive that a two-minute video can feel like two hours. Yikes.
This is a very useful video for English speaking activities.
It's really agood vieo and covers all aspects of the conversation at restaurant for ordering the food. The costumers and waitress are the beautiful. I love watching your videos cos it's short and so sweet too. Pls prepare more such videos on other aspects of the English conversation.
*I DON'T LIKE SPICY*
idk why that shit killed me lmao
Same!!!
It got me, too!!
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This is good, covers all the basics. The restaurant experience is different in China and this really shows how a restaurant meal is different in terms of interactions with the waitress.
This video sucks and yet I have to build a class lesson around it as homework. Terrific.
Me too. And I totally feel your pain.
Same..... ITA?
lol we all must have the same class, because yeah I'm there as well. I loath having to watch this multiple times to get this lesson plan together.
me TO. lol :P
Anyone feel like sharing their LP for the rest of us ITA students? lol "no need to reinvent the wheel"...
thanks for making this type of restaurant video
Waitress: Hi I´m Lori, I´ll be you waitress today. Can I get you anything to drink?
Him: Just water
Waitress: Would you like bottled or regular?
Him: Regular.
Waitress: and for you?
Her: I´ll have a diet soda.
Waitress: Great. I´ll be right back.
ORDERING
Waitress: Have you decided what you´d like? or do you need some more time?
Her: I´ll have the grilled chicken and a dinner salad.
Waitress: and what kind of dressing would you like?
Her: what kind do you have?
Waitress: Italian, blue cheese and French.
Her: I´ll have the Italian, and can you serve that on the side?
Waitress: of course, and you sir?
Him: The peppered salmon is very spicy?
Waitress: yes
Him: I don´t like spicy. I´ll have the steak.
Waitress: and how would you like that cooked?
Him: Medium please.
Waitress: Alright, so that´s chicken with salad, Italian dressing on the side, and one steak medium.
Him: yes
Waitress: thank you
SERVING
Waitress: be careful is hot. Can I get that to you?
Her: yes please.
Waitress: and is there anything else I can get you?
Him: may I have a steak knife?
Waitress: of course. I´ll get that right away.
How is everything?
Him: Excellent
Her: Very good.
Waitress: Great
FINISHING THE MEAL
Waitress: Are you still working on that? Or shall I wrap it up for you?
Her: I´m done
Him: I´ll take this to go.
Waitress: Would you like a dessert menu?
Him: Yes please.
Waitress: Would you like coffee?
Him: Yes
Her: I´ll have some too
Waitress: cream or sugar?
Him: I´ll like some cream.
Her: I´ll have sugar.
ORDERING DESSERT
Waitress: Have you decided what you´d like for dessert?
Him: I´ll have the chocolate cake.
Waitress: and for you?
Her: I´ll have the cheesecake.
Waitress: Excellent, I´ll be right back.
GET THE CHECK
Waitress: Did you enjoy your meal?
Her: It was wonderful!
Waitress: Can I get you anything else, or should I get your check??
Him: We´ll take the check.
Waitress: thank you for coming.
Wonderful service!
Perfect!Thanks!
Questions:
What did the guy choose for a drink?
What did the girl choose for a drink?
What did the guy order for the main course?
What did the girl order for the main course?
Does the guy like spicy dishes?
Who ordered a cheesecake?
Did they like the food and service?
This is great! It's how people actually talk!
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Great, but it should be "I'll have some too" not "to"
@sylas yufayyur True! But its also important to see it written out correctly when you are learning :)
@sylas yufayyur The person who made this video included subtitles... they intended for them to be seen and read and understood. This is a video for educational purposes, not a real life interaction. It should be written correctly if its included in the video. It is important if someone is writing in English to know the difference between using "to" and "too".
Excellent dialogue!!!
Thank you.
When I started planning my lesson the first thing I taught them was that they must say please and thank you. I would consider these customers to be quite rude.
Excellent point for teaching culture !
great!!, with this grammar and pronunsations we can speak fluently...please sharing us more videos like this...gracias amigos, esperamos estar mas en contacto
" I'll have some to "
Storm4155 and also "we'll take the check?"
Kyle Cott So, there should not be a question mark after 'check', is that what you are referring to? Also it would be better to say 'have the check' rather than 'take', but maybe that's American English to say 'take the check'.
Storm4155 you can also say "Should I get your bill?"
Storm4155 yeah, this is a common American phrase. At least in the Midwest "I'll take the check" is more common than "I'll have the check" (I often ask "Can I get the check?")
Right? OMG...
Advice to the next class: Play this at .75 and it sounds slightly better. Also subtitles do need a rework, but that's been mentioned before. These aren't actors, so its understandably not going to be a quality performance, but there are a few errors which make this not work well for its purpose. It is almost a requirement to slow the playback speed for this to be usable for beginners as the lesson mentions.
Thank you.
He ruined the steak by ordering it "medium."
My personal favorite is the woman ordering grilled chicken and salad with dressing on the side, and then cheesecake. :P
no, he ruined the steak by asking for a knife and not eating it like a savage.
Very good. Friendly service.
Great lesson for ordering at a restaurant! thanks for the effort :)
thank you so much. Really helpful, I can't wait to show it to my students!
What is the actress' name (the customer) in this video? I swear she is famous now.
I wouldn't show this video to my ESL class, those schmuck customers didn't say please and thank you once. There's enough rude English customers already, smh.
The acting is like when you step on a lego
Yep. PAINFUL.
thank you so much.For your video. Because I learnt so many things. how to take order. when customers arrived.
For critics: try recording yourselves the next time you dine out. I think you'll discover we all sound equally banal - if not worse - in real life.
Yes, I carefully studied real conversations at nice restaurants to get this dialogue. If you want clever dialogue study great movies. It takes years to learn to write great dialogue, that's why you won't find any in textbooks.
Wonderful video thanks you so much !
What is the soup du jour?
"It's the soup of the day."
Mmm, that sounds good. I'll have that.
Jim Carrey
Just perfect for the class I´ll do tonight!!!! :D Thanks!
Very nice
what dinner salad did she choose? name please
thanks nice video
we'll take the check?
Great video. Thank you!
So cool
dat waittress is beautiful 😍😘
Very good, realistic English used in this situation. :)
The word "the check" is called in American English. But It's called "the bill" in British English.
Can I get you anything?.....to drink?
wow very good
it's so good though it seem so speedy
Now how in the world did I end up here?
top notch, thanks. Will use it in 30mins for student who is probably sick to death of my voice.
0:11 ; 0:15 ; 0:20 ; 0:25; 0:38; 1:02; 1:05; 1:22; 1:33; 1:42
I like this video
the best one!
she is soooo cute
Did it say...produced by Fat Rat Education. Idk about y'all but that's the best name for something I've heard in a long time
I like the video
جميل جدا شكرا
Thanks a lot :-)
Beautifully waters
oh my is very fast, but if they took the left over food to go, why they ordered a dessert???
Some of us have a "separate stomach" for dessert :D
We can always eat ice cream or cake ;)
What they call the "check" is called the "bill" in Britain and Australia.
+Jason Bolster Thank you for share :)
We use both words interchangeably. In the Southern part of the US you may even here the word "ticket" used to refer to a bill or check but you would never hear "ticket" in other parts of the US.
I'm not familiar with calling it the "ticket."
Confirmed. Been to South Carolina and heard "ticket" a few times. Not common though.
I'm from the US, and I prefer the term "bill" myself. The term "check" seems strange to me, but it's commonly used, so you kind of have to get used to it if you're in the US.
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Is there a version without subtitles?
SuperMelibelly Great idea. I will be moving to China in September and rebuilding my site then and add it.
Awesome! I'm actually moving to Madrid in September myself. I'll stay tuned. Good luck!
+Brett Brown Do you teach English in China?
I just have ss listen but I don't have them watch the first time. The second time we watch, and subtitles can be helpful.
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What the heck would they ask me if I want desserts or drinks ?
Hi. I teach English in Vietnam. My school concentrates on speaking and listening and for higher level learners we have introduced 4 specific topics: Food and Beverage, Travel, Shopping, and Entertainment/Free Time Activities. Part of the course is for students to do their own study. We are sourcing various videos and audio links which students need to watch or listen to, and then they need to answer questions about it. After seeing your video, I was wondering if it would be possible to use various snippets from it for this self-study segment? Many thanks, Mr D
Yes, please feel free to use it all. I'm teaching in China now but hope to make new additions to my channel soon.
Thanks, Brett. Good luck with the new additions.
I subscribed your video but I need to know more in this video like welcoming geust plz make a video.....
Vengo por tarea de ingles AaaAaAah!!! Cuántos drinks ordenó el señor
เร็วจัง
miyabi hi yes
They don't say "please" to the waitress
they do if they arent an asshole
She served the man first. Didn’t serve on the right side.
Do you speak English?
diet soda?
ok what kind of soda??
diet soda
THANK YOU. Ms. Waitress must be a mind-reader. Who forgets steak knives.
Toop
E.
beaucoup trop vite pas possible de suivre
The waitress is hot .
Never ask the bill after dessert, The customers will ask the bill when they want. is it a USA sistem??
Often it is, yes. It depends on the type of restaurant.
High-end/expensive restaurants will expect you to sit for a long time and will not ask you if you want the bill/check.
Less expensive/more busy restaurants will have many tables throughout the night. Americans do not generally sit for hours like Europeans. Usually the server (we no longer use the term waiter in most big cities) will ask if you would like anything else and you will reply "just the check, thank you" or "just the bill, thank you." Sometimes a server will ask if you would like the check in very casual circumstances.
Servers are very attentive in North America (they work mostly on tips) and they learn when it is appropriate to ask or not, or sometimes just bring it for "when you are ready to pay". Americans get frustrated when they travel as the custom (in Europe at least) is to leave the customers alone for long stretches of time. This would be considered rude/neglectful in North America, but it is polite in Europe, as they are allowing the customer to enjoy their meal/relax.
ordering food，，dining out
It's a bit embarrassing to watch. I'm thinking of how I order stuff and the waitress having to be all polite about it all...
lol this should be a meme..
hi you speek very fast I scarcely understand some phrases could you speeking ...
Zaid Zouaghi that's actually a regular speed, there are people who speak even faster
....
me lo dejaron de tarea XD
Waitress is beautiful 😍😊
Ya hice la tarea maestra Rocio :v
Using this video for a class; the content is okay but there’s a grammatical error. They use the wrong form of the word ‘too.’
I wonder if ITA would still send us to watch this video if they knew the blonde actress was in the film "Bar Hopping Hotties."
Im sure ITA choose this video because of her well renowned career
Paulux de lux
Don`t like the hair hanging over the shoulder. I worked in a restaurant where the waitresses carried the trays on their shoulder and sometimes their hair would a actually touch the food! Sooo gross!
Cool !!!! pour reviser :p
🌷🙏
thank you so much, now i know hot to order? food? in retatruuutang? thx baby
😹
0:37 I don't like spicy
school forced me to watch this video
i'm not sure i enjoyed it tbh
That was cringy
Interesante el video solo que no entendi ni mother xD
2009 film WTF
1:22 *wud yu like kofe*
so goooood i like mens
Jajjajaja khe? 😂😂😂😄