F2F Class Notes 29th March (Celeste)***

Next Class: Continue teaching Stella about western restaurant etiquette.

Review

ingredients – what foods make a dish

What ingredients do you cook with to make your favorite fish dish?

Vocabulary

house salad / small salad / starter salad – usually mixed lettuce (sheng cai), tomato (fan qie), carrot (hu luo bo), cucumber (huang gua), onion (yang cong), croutons (small, crisp, crunchy pieces of bread) and your choice of salad dressing

salad dressing – salad sauce

***when asking for beer, call it by its name if you know which beer, or point to a picture if it has a difficult name

Q: would you like to have our lunch special?

A: Yes, I would like to try it.  / No, I don’t want to try it. I’ll have the spaghetti instead.

Stella and Celeste go to an Italian Restaurant

J: How is your salad? = is it good? do you like it?

S: Yes, it’s great, I like it a lot.

J: Great! Your spaghetti and lasagna should be ready in just a few minutes.

S: OK, thank you!

J: How is your salad? = is it good? do you like it?

S: It’s ok, it’s not the best, it’s average, not too bad.

J: Oh, would you like me to order you a different a salad or give you a different dressing?

S: Yes please, I’d like to have this other dressing, _____ / I’d like to have this other salad, _____

J: How is your salad? = is it good? do you like it?

S: It’s not very good because….

I think the dressing is old.

I found a bug/worm/bandage  in my salad.

J: I’m so sorry, let me take this away and give/bring you a new one…