Unusual Restaurants

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B1

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90 min

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17 slides

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kids &teens

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. Students build vocabulary around cuisine and dining, read about how design and technology shape each experience, and practise functional language for ordering food through a role-play activity. The lesson closes with a creative task where students design and describe their own unusual restaurant.

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

1. 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.

2. Vocabulary: Cuisines & Famous Dishes

   Students match cuisines with well-known dishes (page 3). Class checks answers together.

3. Vocabulary

   Students match target words to pictures and describe each image using the vocabulary (page 4). Teacher clarifies meaning, pronunciation, and example sentences.

4. 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).

5. Comprehension Questions

   Students answer questions comparing the restaurants (page 9). Pair discussion follows.

6. Vocabulary Practice

   Students choose the correct word in context to reinforce meaning (page 10).

7. Menu

   Students read and discuss the HALO restaurant menu (page 11). Teacher can check comprehension of food vocabulary.

8. Functional Language: Ordering Food

   Students read a model waiter–customer dialogue and notice useful expressions (pages 12–13).

9. Role-play

   In pairs, students act out restaurant conversations using the phrase bank (page 14).

10. Creative Project: Create a Restaurant

    Students brainstorm ideas and design their own unusual restaurant (page 15).

11. Writing Task

    Students describe their restaurant using guided questions and sentence starters (page 16).

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