About This Activity

Overview

Our Fast-Food Role-Play Kits are a series of printables that make it super easy for a teacher to organize authentic restaurant related role-play activities in a classroom environment.

With these materials, students can participate meaningfully in role-play interactions after memorizing as few as 10-20 vocabulary words.

Role-play activities are a type of communication practice exercise used regularly under the communicative language teaching (CLT) methodology as one of six common classroom activity types.

 

Activity Presentation Phase Instructions

 

Fast-Food Printable Example

Hamburger Bun + Ketchup

Everything needed to create modular multi-layered cardstock hamburger buns with a pocket for meat and ingredients

 

Fast-Food Printable Example

Cup Builder + Coffee

Two layers of a modular multi-layered cup builder with a pocket for a variety of beverage inserts that slide in to fill the cup

 

Fast-Food Printable Example

Cup Builder + Apple Juice

Two more layers of a modular multi-layered cup builder with a pocket for beverage inserts that slide in to fill the cup

 

Fast-Food Printable Example

Cup Builder + Beverages

Back (reverse) layer of the cup builder with a pocket for beverage inserts that slide in to fill the cup

 

 

 

Download Printable Materials

 

 

How To Use

Groups: These materials are best used for pair role-play. One student can play the role of 'customer' and the other 'server.'

Materials: One or (ideally) more sets of role-play materials.

Time / Game Round: 1-3 minutes

 

  • The server should ask their customer "What do you want to eat?"

  • The customers should ask for a specific food item, such as a hamburger, chicken-burger, pizza, bowl of ice cream, etc. 

  • The server should then ask their customer "What do you want on your hamburger/ice cream/pizza/etc?"

  • The customer should respond by listing the toppings they want.

    i.e. lettuce, ketchup, etc for burgers, banana, apple, etc for ice cream

  • Then the server should ask their customer "What do you want to drink?"

  • The customer should respond with their preferred beverage.

  • The server can double-check if the customer wants any addition items by asking "anything else?"

  • The server can then prepare the order and give it to the customer, saying "Here you are."

 

There are MANY ways to use these materials for different levels of complexity and for various learning goals/purposes. However, the instructions above are a good place to start for beginners.

 

How To Play

 

 

Words to Learn Before Playing

The Core Vocabulary Words listed below are all words that students should learn BEFORE playing this game. Students will only need to learn the words listed for a specific set of cards to play this game with that set of cards.

 

Core Vocabulary Words Used in Activity
Materials Set A apple, banana, bun, chicken-burger, chili, fish-burger, hamburger, ice cream, ketchup, lettuce, tomato
Materials Set B apple juice, bacon, coffee, cookie, cup, fries, milk, onion, peach juice, pickle, pickle juice, tea, water
Materials Set C barbecue sauce, bun, chili, chili sauce, egg, hotdog, mustard, nut, yogurt
Materials Set D beef, chicken (meat), chicken wing, chili, pizza, sausage, spider, tomato

 

 

Words to Learn While Playing

The following words will be used to the play this game (with every available set of cards). However, these words don't need to be pre-taught. These words can and should be learned WHILE playing the game.

 

Vocabulary Best Learned In Context
Used With All Sets anything-else, are, bowl, cup, do, drink, eat, here I, more, on, thank-you, to, want, what, you, your, you're-welcome

 

 

Sentence Patterns to Use While Playing

The following sentences and sentence patterns are recommended for use while playing this game. The best way to teach these sentences, is to use them in context while introducing the game and demonstrating how to play it.

 

Standard Sentences and Sentence Patterns
What do you want? / What do you want to eat? / What do you want to drink?
I want a _________________. / I want some _________________. / I want more _________________.
Anything else?
Yes. / No.
Here you are.
Thank you. / You're welcome.