Learning Activity

Restaurant Virtual Visit, Review, and Conversation - Phase 3

Subject Area

World Languages

Grade(s)

7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Overview

Students will choose a restaurant in a target language city to research and visit virtually. Students will then write a review of the restaurant and finally complete an unrehearsed conversation with a classmate about their experiences during their virtual visit. (This lesson includes 3 phases, uploaded as separate learning activities.)

This activity was created as a result of the World Languages COS Resource Development Summit.

World Languages (2017) Grade(s): 07-12 - World Languages

WL17.WL.L1.1

Communicate and share on familiar topics with a variety of words, phrases, and simple sentences in the present time frame.

Unpacked Content

UP:WL17.WL.L1.1

Knowledge

Students know:
  • culturally appropriate ways to greet and leave others.
  • how to introduce themselves and provide basic information.
  • question words and how to recognize them in conversation.
  • how to describe themselves in first person.
  • how to describe others in third person.

Skills

Students are able to:
Novice Mid Level
  • use basic greetings.
  • introduce themselves.
  • respond to yes/no questions.
  • respond to either or questions.
  • answer who, what, when where.

Novice High Level students are able to:
  • use basic greetings.
  • introduce themselves.
  • respond to yes/no questions.
  • respond to either or questions.
  • answer who, what, when where.
  • say age.
  • say what one likes/dislikes.
  • talk about places.
  • talk about times and dates.

    • Understanding

    Students understand that:
    Novice Mid Level
    • effective communication requires knowing how when and why to say what to whom.
    • the purpose of language study is to communicate so one can understand others and be understood.
    • other understandings will depend on the theme being taught.
    Students understand that:
    Novice High Level
    • effective communication requires knowing how when and why to say what to whom.
    • the purpose of language study is to communicate so one can understand others and be understood.
    • other understandings will depend on the theme being taught.
    World Languages (2017) Grade(s): 07-12 - World Languages

    WL17.WL.L1.5

    Identify products of the target cultures.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:WL17.WL.L1.5

    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • the tangible products that are important to their life and culture.
    • the tangible products that are important to the target language life and culture.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    Novice Mid Level
    • list common target language cultural products such as paintings, songs, and foods.
    • watch video clips or music videos and identify cultural products.
    • describe basic craft products from target language countries.
    Novice High Level
    Students are able to:
    • list common target language cultural products such as paintings, songs, and foods.
    • watch video clips or music videos and identify cultural products.
    • describe basic craft products from target language countries.
    • investigate the relationship between cultural products and perspectives.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • an ability to communicate in another language fosters a better.
    • understanding of my own language and culture.
    • custom and tradition vary within a culture, as well as between cultures.
    • other understandings will vary according to theme being taught.
    World Languages (2017) Grade(s): 07-12 - World Languages

    WL17.WL.L1.11

    Identify opportunities to use the target language beyond the classroom environment.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:WL17.WL.L1.11

    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • the locations of the target language specific countries.
    • the key attractions within the target language specific countries.
    • the key celebrations within the target language specific countries.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    Novice Mid Level
    • access important travel documents and safety information online.
    • use physical and online resources to identify and participate in celebrations within the target language countries.
    Novice High Level
    Students are able to:
    • access important travel documents and safety information online.
    • use online resources to evaluate hotels and attractions within target language countries.
    • use physical and online resources to identify and participate in celebrations within the target language countries.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • the target language is used around the world every day in many different contexts.
    • the target language can help one better understand the world around them.
    • the study of world languages expands one's opportunities.
    • language is a tool to connect with the world.
    • other understandings will depend on theme being taught.

    Phase

    After/Explain/Elaborate
    Learning Objectives

    Learning Objectives

    *Students can ask and answer questions about a virtual restaurant visit in original sentences with details in the target language, describing and giving their opinions on its atmosphere, service, food and drink items, and prices.

    *Students can recommend a restaurant and food and drink items in the target culture in writing in the target language.

    Activity Details

    Phase 3: Partner Conversation

    *After visiting a target language website for a restaurant in the target culture, students will practice discussing the following aspects of their virtual restaurant visit with a classmate who visited a different restaurant: name of restaurant, atmosphere, service, food, drink, prices, and whether they recommend the restaurant. They should practice asking and answering questions on each topic. Students should also practice responding to their partners with natural interjections and follow-up questions to show understanding and ability to keep the conversation going.

    *Once students are ready, they should be placed with a new classmate (who also visited a different restaurant) to have an unrehearsed conversation about their mutual restaurant experiences and record their conversation for an interpersonal speaking assessment. Students may use Voice Memos on their phones or another recording software or website.  

    *Students will conduct and record their conversation, asking and answering questions about each required aspect (name of the restaurant, service, atmosphere, food, drink, prices, and recommendation). Students will turn in their recordings for the teacher to assess.

    Assessment Strategies

    Assessment Strategies

    *Formally assess whether students are able to ask and answer questions about each required aspect of the restaurant visit in a conversation, utilizing a rubric that checks off each required topic and measures whether a student is speaking at the Novice-Mid, Novice High, or Intermediate Low proficiency level.

    *Formally assess whether students’ speech in the recording is comprehensible, or whether errors in grammar and pronunciation impede comprehension, utilizing a rubric that measures whether a students’ fluency and grammar structure are at the Novice-Mid, Novice High, or Intermediate Low proficiency level.

    Background and Preparation

    Background / Preparation

    Teachers should:

    *View all 3 phases of this lesson. (See https://alex.state.al.us/learningasset_view.php?asset_id=2005 & https://alex.state.al.us/learningasset_view.php?asset_id=2029)

    *create a list of restaurant website links for students to choose from. German examples:

    www.augustineramdom.de 

    www.der-pschorr.de

    www.diemetzgerei.at

    www.cafe-fraeulein.de

    www.bieberbau-berlin.de

    www.hamburgerei.de

    *Choose optimal student partners or groups of 3.

    *Create a handout of instructions for the virtual visit, written review, and conversation.

    *Create rubrics to assess the proficiency level of the written review and the conversation.

    *Choose a software or website for students to use to record themselves.

    Digital Tools / Resources

    Augustiner am Dom
    https://www.augustineramdom.de/

    Approved Date

    Owner (Author)

    buderlj
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