26 Nov 2012

RESTAURANTS & PUBS

SEARCHING AND CHOOSING A RESTAURANT
- Could you tell me where there’s a good restaurant, please?
- Could you tell me where there’s a cheap restaurant, please?
- Is there a restaurant nearby?
- I’d like to book a table for two people, please.
- What time do you close, please?
- I’d like to reserve a table for nine o’clock, please.
- What’s the name, please?

AT A RESTAURANT

- Good evening! Have you got a table for two, please?
- Could you give us a table near the window, please?
- Good evening! We have a reservation.
- Waiter / Waitress, please.
- Could we have the menu, please?
- Can you recommend us one of your specialities?
- Could we have the wine list, please?
- Can you recommend us a local wine, please?
- What would you recommend us?
- Have you got a set menu, please?
- Where are the toilets, please?
- We’d like something to drink.
- Have you got any lamb, please?
- Is everything ok, madam/sir?
- Could you bring some still/plain/sparkling/mineral/tap water, please?
- Could you bring some forks /knives/spoons/tea spoons/ serviette, please?
- Excuse me, he has spilt something on his shirt.
- Waiter, the bill please.
- We’re in a hurry.
- What can whip up for us?

CHEERS!
- Where is there a good area to go for a drink?
- Where can we go for a drink at this time of the night?
- Do you know any pub with live music?
- What sort of music do they play?
- What can I get you?  / What are you having?
- A beer, please.  / A lager, please / A pint, please. / Half a pint, please.
- Is there a free table?
- Is this chair free?
- A coke, please.
- Two cubes of ice, please.
- Waiter! A glass of wine and three beers, please.
- A whisky / A Bacardi and coke, please.
- I’ll have the same again, please.
- How much, please?  / How much is it, please?

Now have a look at this "Ratatouille" video to practise your listening skills.


And here you are another video about Ratatoille story, it has Spanish subtitles so it will be easier.

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