Restaurant

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Description

• Restaurant (le restaurant)
  
• Helpful verbs and expressions
• Grammar Point: Negation
  
• Scenarios

Restaurant (le restaurant)

English	French	Listen and Repeat	Write
a table	une table		?
a chair	une chaise		?
the bathroom	les toilettes		?
the wine	le vin		?
the bread	le pain		?
a reservation	une réservation		?
a waiter	un serveur, une serveuse		?
a glass of water	un verre d'eau		?
there are four of us	nous sommes quatre/on est quatre		?
please	s'il vous plaît		?
thank you	merci		?
the nuts	les noix		?
delicious	délicieux		?
the salad	une salade		?
the bill	l'addition, la note		?
the chicken	le poulet		?
the shrimp	les crevettes		?
the fish	le poisson		?
the beef	le boeuf		?
the pork	le porc		?
the egg	l'oeuf		?
the salt	le sel		?
the pepper	le poivre		?
spicy	épicé		?
the milk	le lait		?
a coffee	un café		?
a tea	un thé		?
a dessert	un dessert		?
an appetizer	un amuse-gueule		?
breakfast	le petit déjeuner		?
lunch	le déjeuner		?
supper	le dîner		?
the food	la nourriture		?
I am hungry	j'ai faim		?
I am thirsty	j'ai soif		?
I would like to order	je voudrais commander		?
a plate	une assiette		?
a fork	une fourchette		?
a spoon	une cuillère		?
a knife	un couteau		?
vegetarian	végétarien		?
gluten-free	sans gluten		?

You can learn more about words for food here.

Helpful verbs and expressions

Verbs: manger ("to eat"), boire ("to drink"), aimer ("to like"), trop de ("too much/many"), assez de ("enough"), être allergique à ("to be allergic to"), e.g.:

manger

J'ai mangé trop d'arachides = "I ate too many peanuts"

 

boire

Il faut boire assez d'eau = "You need to drink enough water"

 

aimer

J'aime le fromage = "I like cheese"

 

être allergique à

Je suis allergique aux noix = "I am allerigic to nuts"

 

You can learn the conjugation of these verbs here.

 

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Grammar Point: Negation

Negative sentences are formed by placing the word ne before the verb and pas after it, e.g.:Je ne travaille pas aujourd'hui ("I don't work today"). To mean "nothing/not anything", use ne + verb + rien (e.g.: Je ne veux rien); to mean "no one", use ne + verb + personne (e.g.: Il n'y a personne dans la salle).

 

Note that when speaking, the ne is often omitted.

 

You can learn more about negation here.

Scenarios

1/ Write a dialogue where a customer orders a three-course meal. The main characters are the customer (le client or la cliente) and the waiter (le serveur or la serveuse).

2/ Write a story describing your favourite restaurant.

Be sure to can check the grammar of your scenarios here.

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Exercises

Give the English equivalent:

Give the French equivalent:

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1. I don't want to order anything.

2. I think that the eggs are too spicy.

3. My mother doesn't like vegetables.

4. I would like a glass of water please.

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