hi everybody welcome back to our weekly
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we're going to talk about quick
responses to questions about food so
we've done some quick response practice
in live streams before for this lesson
i'm going to focus on very common
questions about food and restaurants and
ordering at restaurants and give you
some sample answers that you can train
so you can quickly respond to these
questions so
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little bit as i said today we are doing
quick response practice quick response
so i have three groups of questions i'm
going to talk about and i'm going to
share some sample responses but of
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today we're going to begin
with questions about like making a
decision like what you want to eat
talking about uh the type of food you
want to eat so first let's look at this
one this is probably the most basic
question that you can use here it's very
straightforward and easy to understand
what do you want to eat what do you want
to eat at native speed this question
sounds like what do you want to eat what
do you want to eat so these connect
right here these sounds
what do you want to eat so not what do
you want to eat but what do you want to
eat
so to respond to this question we can
use very simple patterns we can say
something like
let's
go
to
let's go to and then you follow with a
restaurant
like a restaurant name
that's fine let's go to abc restaurant
or let's go to taco bell let's go to
burger king you can use a restaurant
name here
you can also
change your preposition instead of let's
go to plus a place you can change this
to let's go
for
and then
a cuisine so cuisine
this word is pronounced cuisine cuisine
so cuisine means like a specific
region's food food from a specific
region so like italian or like chinese
so a type of food a category of food
food from a country or food from a
specific place a specific region so
let's go for italian let's go for
japanese so you can use go
for both of these patterns
but we change the preposition let's go
to a place we're talking about movement
or let's go for italian so we don't say
let's go to italian we could say let's
go to
an italian place or an italian
restaurant that is okay
but if you want to describe the cuisine
use for
let's go for this thing
okay i
don't see any questions so let's
continue uh to the next one uh so this
is the basic uh the first most basic
question what do you want to eat what do
you want to eat
second one what sounds good what sounds
good this question is multi-purpose like
that means you can use this question for
situations outside food and dining for
today we're using it for food so this
means what food
sounds good to you right now so in other
words it means what do you want to eat
what sounds good
points
this s sound many people forget to
pronounce the s sound what sounds good
what sounds good so at native speed this
question sounds like what sounds good or
what sounds good to you
so you can use this let's go pattern
again or
just use
cuisine here what sounds good to you
italian what sounds good to you chinese
what sounds good to you tai
what sounds good to you you can also use
a dish name here so you can use a
cuisine
or
a dish a dish so dish here
it's hard to see sorry dish d-i-s-h
so to use a dish means to name a food so
tacos or ramen or sushi or pasta for
example what sounds good to you pasta
what sounds good to you soup whatever
sounds good to you
you can use just the dish name here as
well you don't need to make a full
sentence just name the food you want to
eat in response to this question you can
also use this dish in response to what
do you want to eat totally fine no
problem there
okay good some examples are coming in
very nice mexican food sounds good yeah
you don't need no way thanks for your
example sentence it says the mexican
food sounds good you don't need to
include the before the type of cuisine
like mexican food sounds good or italian
food sounds good so no article there
okay other examples uh
abdallah on facebook says how do i
politely ask what do you want to eat
sure so these are kind of casual
everyday use questions to make this a
little bit more polite you can say
what
would oops sorry what would
what would you like to eat
what would
you like
to eat sorry hard to see what would you
like to eat is a little more polite than
what do you want to eat what would you
like to eat at native speed it sounds
like what would you like to eat
okay let's go to the next question what
do you feel like and i have eating here
in parentheses what do you feel like
because often
we drop this eating so what do you feel
like means like what sounds good it's
the same meaning but it's focusing on
your feelings so what do you feel like
this isn't a question about your health
or like your body condition it's asking
about food in this case in this
situation
so sometimes people include uh eating
like what do you feel like eating
the reason
i include this here is because sometimes
we change the verb for example if we're
not talking about food if we're talking
about movies we might say what do you
feel like watching something like that
so we can change the verb here
to like suit the situation for today's
lesson what do you feel like eating not
to eat what do you feel like to eat is
incorrect what do you feel like eating
what do you feel like eating so again we
can use the same responses here let's go
to or let's go for
a cuisine or a dish
okay
uh
then let's finish this part with one
more question
what are you in the mood for what are
you in the mood for so again we're using
this casual expression and yes you hear
this ending with a preposition that's
okay this is a very common expression
what are you in the mood for again in
this context in this situation we
understand it's about food what are you
in the mood for italian what are you in
the mood for uh
oh someone says moroccan food yeah nice
example
so these are a few ways to ask someone
about their preferences and
quick ways to respond so let's go to
let's go for your cuisine name or a dish
name
so quick introduction part there uh
all right i don't see any other
questions yet
masaya hey masaya on facebook says food
or foods should this be singular or
plural in this case
we're probably going to use food we're
probably going to use the singular food
foods has some applications we use foods
some in some specific situations uh like
when we're talking about like foods from
another countries like specific
types of dishes but for these questions
you're probably going to use the
singular form
okay
uh how do we answer the third question
what do you feel like eating you can use
all of these all of these can be used to
answer all of these questions actually
so what do you feel like eating oh let's
go to that restaurant or let's go for i
feel like i'm using chinese a lot let's
go for chinese or like let's go for
steak uh you can use all of these
patterns to answer all of these
questions yeah
yeah okay uh that looks pretty good so
let's take one quick break and then
we'll go to part two for today all right
let's take a look i chose the food
related the food related pdfs to show
you if you have not checked the pdfs in
the link below the video on youtube or
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uh i will show you this one first uh for
food related vocabulary there are three
i chose this one is new this is the
supermarket one
this has vocabulary words for shopping
at the supermarket so lots of mounds to
practice here and then on the back
you'll also find more vocabulary words
but this part i think is interesting
labels how to read like this label on
food like the key words here this is a
group of words you can study and this is
for shopping so like discounts and
making payment this is good for shopping
in the supermarket but today today i'm
focusing on like this topic though
dining dining means eating out so champ
is short for champion
but these are expressions you can use at
a restaurant these are vocabulary words
you can use to finish
the questions we talked about in part
one so i'll show you more details of
this a little bit later but if you want
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link below the video on youtube or above
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can download these for free as well okay
so let's continue to part two of today's
lesson then
uh
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let's go to part two part two is
choosing a restaurant choosing a
restaurant so now i want to talk about
restaurant specific
questions and answers so yes we talked a
bit about restaurants and cuisine
a little bit here i want for this part
to focus on choosing restaurants so
you're going out to eat somewhere in
these questions
you could use these at home like what do
you want to eat you could be talking
about food at home
these questions are specifically about
going to a restaurant so hints here
where where do you want to go so meaning
not here or where should we go for
dinner where should we go for lunch so
let's talk about how to answer a few
ways to answer these
one we can use this pattern we talked
about in part one let's go to restaurant
name or let's go for cuisine that is
also okay
if however
you want to be a little more specific
about like a feature or a characteristic
of a restaurant you can use a pattern
like this
let's
go
someplace oops sorry let's go someplace
someplace
or somewhere is also okay i'll include
that here let's go someplace or let's go
somewhere
plus
an adjective
plus an adjective so this should be an
adjective you can use to describe the
restaurant so for example some very
common ones let's go someplace
cheap or let's go someplace fast
or let's go someplace fancy
so if there's a specific like feeling
you're looking for
let's go someplace fun or let's go
someplace casual you can use this
pattern
to reply
so both of these questions where do you
want to go
and where should we go for meal can be
answered with this pattern
okay so this is one way to include like
characteristics about a restaurant you
want to go to
okay another way to describe like the
features like uh something you want
inside the restaurant or some feeling
about the restaurant is again starting
with let's go
let's go
uh you can include two if you like let's
go to a place
that has
let's go to a place that has so before
we talked about an adjective yeah
in this we're going to use a noun phrase
let's go to a place that has
noun phrase for example
let's go to a place that has
a nice
view let's go to a place that has a nice
view let's go to a place that has
a special
cocktail menu for example
something special or something unique
you want to describe about the
restaurant you can use a noun phrase and
you can introduce it with that has so
let's go to a place you can also use
let's go someplace or let's go somewhere
also perfectly fine they're all okay
so some examples are coming in then some
other good ideas uh gertrudis on youtube
says let's go someplace romantic good
okay edgard says let's go someplace
fancy no i'm broken good okay ren says
let's go to italy restaurant close let's
go to an italian restaurant so italy is
the country name we need to use the form
that describes the food italian
restaurant italian restaurant
eusander says let's go to a place that
has japanese food perfect edgard says
let's go to a place that has live music
yes exactly nice examples that's great
live music okay cool what else
uh
easy and fun english hello uh says shall
we eat to a restaurant can we say that
no we cannot say shall we eat to a
restaurant you could say shall we eat at
a restaurant shall we eat at a
restaurant but this sounds very formal
instead we would probably say do you
want to go to a restaurant do you want
to go to a restaurant
all right on facebook bori says let's go
to a place that has a special dessert
menu dessert menu ah and make sure
dessert has two s's two s's let's go to
a place that has a special or a good for
example a good dessert
menu
spelling point there dessert has two s's
dessert desert has one s small
difference but
uh
other things i don't see other examples
oh lizette on facebook says let's go to
a place that has a terrace nice perfect
perfect perfect
exactly very nice job okay
uh
risa is that our resa is that our reason
okay let's go to a place let's go to a
place that has vegan food that has vegan
food great good point vegan food or
vegetarian food if you have special
preferences for food okay nice wow
really good examples um
let's go to a place that has kebabs
that's good i ate kebabs yesterday great
very nice examples everybody okay
um
let's see we got about 10 minutes left
so
uh i will
take one more break and then we'll go to
the last part of today's lesson keep
sending your examples i will try to
check them a little after the break it
takes a little time to get to us so
while you send your examples i will
share the other pdfs i showed you
earlier
i started to show you this one this
dining one so this is today's focus is
going out to a restaurant eating at a
restaurant i wanted to show you yeah
this guy
on the back so this is
again this is the dining one on the back
right here
on the back is
there are three groups they're kind of
three categories and this is the one i
was looking at table requests in the
restaurant we're going to talk about uh
ordering at the restaurant at the table
in just a minute
and we're also going to talk a little
bit more maybe a little bit about uh
commenting on food but if you want more
expressions to practice going to a
restaurant and to use when you're at the
restaurant you can check out this one
the dining like a champ
pdf
so you can check this out find this from
the link below the video on youtube or
above the video on facebook okay some
questions are coming in now uh i saw
someone what does fancy mean good says
what does fancy mean fancy means some
place where the uh the feeling of the
restaurant is kind of expensive you
should wear nice clothes and there's
nice music and nice drinks and nice food
it costs a lot of money fancy some place
that is fancy in american english that's
how we use fancy
okay let's go to a place that has free
parking nice one said good really nice
okay let's continue to part three of
today's lesson then judah says let's go
to a place that has
okay i don't know what that is all right
okay anyway let's go to the third part
of today's lesson if you're just joining
today we're doing quick response
practice for questions about food and
specifically going to restaurants how to
respond quickly to those so the last
part of today's lesson is ordering at a
restaurant so these are very common
questions
when you get to the restaurant with your
friend or whoever your family member
your date
and these are very common questions
you can practice some responses to first
what are you gonna get what are you
gonna get gonna is the reduced form of
going to so what are you going to get
get so get means receive or what are you
going to choose so we don't say what are
you going to choose we say what are you
going to get what are you going to get
so that means you're looking at the menu
and your friend asks you this question
meaning what in other words what sounds
good to you what are you going to get
what are you gonna get so to respond to
this question specifically this question
specifically
i'm
gonna
get oops sorry i'm gonna get plus
the dish name
i'm gonna get plus the dish name okay
couple points a couple points here one
don't forget this
sound i hear many learners say i gonna
it's not correct i am gonna reduces to
i'm gonna i'm gonna so not i gonna i'm
gonna
get
dish don't forget this get either we
need that verb i'm going to get steak
i'm going to get a salad i'm going to
get shrimp whatever your dish is i'm
going to get this so this is a very easy
way
to express that
this is a situation where you can use
will like uh i'll get this thing
but because we've used going to in the
question it sounds a little more natural
to respond with going to so kind of
matching the feel of the question what
are you gonna get i'm gonna get
i don't know pizza
okay
uh blackout says can we use have instead
of get like what are you gonna have yeah
sure that's fine what are you gonna have
that sounds fine what are you gonna have
what are you gonna get also fine yeah no
problem
uh
other questions
i'm gonna get lasagna says lizette that
sounds good actually i would i would
like to get lasagna okay
uh
i'm gonna get ceviche yeah i had really
good ceviche earlier this summer it was
awesome
all right let's continue to the next
group of questions or rather the next
pair of questions
do you wanna get an
appetizer here's a good maybe new word
for some people
appetizer uh appetizer a p p e t i z e
appetizer an appetizer is the small
thing the small food that comes before
your main dish in some restaurants so
maybe it's like cheese and crackers or
like tapas that kind of thing so do you
wanna wanna is the reduced form of want
to do you want to get an appetizer and
we must include this article here and we
use and because appetizer begins with a
vowel sound do you want to get an
appetizer so would you like to get an
appetizer is what this question means
so
the answer to this is just yes or no yes
or no that's it
the short answer the short answer so
respond with yes
or
sure usually yeah or sure or yes is
great
of course if not
you can
change this to
nah
so i've written n-a-h that's how we
express nah it's not as direct as no
like no is quite direct so we might say
na instead so do you want to get an
appetizer yeah sure
that's great and then choose it
let's get so after you agree
let's
get
plus your dish
let's get shrimp
let's get
uh
what else is a good appetizer let's get
a salad let's get
cheese so small foods small foods
sausage
okay
nice one control desk okay i don't know
why that one's very funny to me okay uh
tg mac says no i don't want to get
nothing okay very casual response using
the double negative there good examples
though
uh so yes i want to get salad some
people say
uh
in french an appetizer is called andre
or apertif as well oh really
okay i don't know french sorry
okay
uh why does get have so many meanings
because get is it
it's a very exciting verb i guess there
are so many different meanings so many
different meanings it does have a lot of
different meanings
okay let's ah
i wondered i don't think i have a verb
video about get because get has many
many meanings so it's hard to make one
video about the verb get but yes it does
have quite a lot i have made some
whiteboard videos about it maybe they're
not out yet
okay let's go to the last point here the
last one are you gonna get a drink are
you gonna get a drink so we see here
again this gunna gonna just as we saw
here gonna this short form of going to
are you gonna get a drink that's what a
native person a native speaker would say
are you going to get a drink sounds very
stiff so we connect this
are you gonna get a drink
are you gonna get it gonna get a drink
so very quick very quick so again we can
answer with yes or no like yeah but with
this one
with this response are you gonna get a
drink we cannot use sure we cannot use
sure because sure is an agreement phrase
in these two
the speaker is asking a question like do
you want to do this thing like
suggesting i want to do this thing do
you want to do this thing with me
so you can answer with sure that sounds
good
here this is a yes or no question it's
not asking for like agreement so we
cannot use sure to respond to this are
you gonna get a drink
you can use
yeah
or
no or nah so just a simple yes or no
response is good
so you cannot use sure to respond to
this but these
very quick yes or no very quick yes or
no this one
expressing what you want to eat at the
restaurant with i'm gonna get plus your
dish name
okay
let's check the comments why don't you
make a series of videos about the verb
get a whole series about get i'll put it
i'll put it in my head i don't know
that's an idea that's an idea thanks for
that uh are you gonna get a drink yes
exactly very nice very nice
uh
why use are not do in the last question
oh i see why use here do you gonna get a
drink is grammatically incorrect
so
do you
want
to
do you going to is grammatically
incorrect so do you we're using do you
for a present tense like a present tense
situation do you want to right now do
you going to do you is for present tense
going to is future tense so there's a
mismatch there we cannot use do you
gonna
okay uh other ones my writing isn't
clear i'm very sorry i'm writing quickly
live uh i could say i'm gonna get a
drink i'm gonna get a drink yes i'm
gonna get a drink we don't use some for
one some is used for plural forms i'm
gonna get some drinks for my friends is
great perfect i'm gonna get some drinks
for the party great i'm gonna get a
drink for myself for myself so singular
we cannot use some
okay
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that that was uh like a good
introduction to how to answer these
questions
and a few grammatical points as well too
so please uh use these i hope that you
can use these the next time you make
plans to visit a restaurant in english
but i have to finish today's lesson so
next week we will be back next week what
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