Unusual Restaurants
- Dec 12, 2025
- 2 min read
Updated: May 12
ESL Lesson Plan Unusual Restaurants helps B1 students explore some of the most creative and surprising restaurants around the world: HALO in Shanghai, the Ice Restaurant in Lapland, and the Ithaa Undersea Restaurant in the Maldives.
📄B1 ⏱️90 min 📁17 slides
Skills and Outcomes:
Discuss dining experiences and express personal opinions clearly.
Create and present an original restaurant concept using guided prompts.
Vocabulary
occasion
experience
carved
three-course meal
approximately
cuisine
digital art
ordinary
futuristic
Lesson Plan
Lead-in Discussion
Students answer warm-up questions about unusual food and restaurants (page 2). They choose which restaurant they would like to visit and explain why.
Vocabulary: Cuisines & Famous Dishes
Students match cuisines with well-known dishes (page 3). Class checks answers together.
Vocabulary
Students match target words to pictures and describe each image using the vocabulary (page 4). Teacher clarifies meaning, pronunciation, and example sentences.
Reading
intro) Unusual Restaurants Around the World
Students read a short introduction and pay attention to new words (page 5). Teacher checks comprehension.
a) HALO in Shanghai
Students read about a digital-art restaurant and learn how technology creates an immersive experience (page 6).
b) Ice Restaurant, Lapland
Students discover a restaurant carved from snow and ice, focusing on descriptive language (page 7).
c) Ithaa Undersea, Maldives
Students read about underwater dining and identify details about food, design, and price (page 8).
Comprehension Questions
Students answer questions comparing the restaurants (page 9). Pair discussion follows.
Vocabulary Practice
Students choose the correct word in context to reinforce meaning (page 10).
Menu
Students read and discuss the HALO restaurant menu (page 11). Teacher can check comprehension of food vocabulary.
Functional Language: Ordering Food
Students read a model waiter–customer dialogue and notice useful expressions (pages 12–13).
Role-play
In pairs, students act out restaurant conversations using the phrase bank (page 14).
Creative Project: Create a Restaurant
Students brainstorm ideas and design their own unusual restaurant (page 15).
Writing Task
Students describe their restaurant using guided questions and sentence starters (page 16).