Topic Four (1.4): Guten Appetit!
Objectives for this topic
- Reading restaurant reviews
- Starting to use the perfect tense with haben
Introduction
In this topic, you will learn how to read and understand restaurant reviews. You will also start building sentences in the past tense, using the perfect tense with the verb haben.
Working through your coursebook
Please work through the following sections in your coursebook, completing all listed exercises:
- Complete exercise 1 on page 104. Read the menus and find the German words for the English expressions (a-h). Fill the gaps with the information from the weather forecast.
- Complete exercise 2 on page 104. Listen to the audio. What are they ordering?
LISTEN – Audio Exercise 2 Links to an external site.
- Complete exercise 3 on page 104. Pretend you are in one of these restaurants. Create a role play, ordering food from those menus.
Extra: why not add more restaurant language, such as asking for the price.
- Complete exercises 4 and 5 on page 105. Read the restaurant reviews and match the restaurants to the menus from exercise 1. Then find the German translation for the English expressions (a-f).
- Complete exercise 6 on page 105. Listen to the audio and complete the sentences in English.
LISTEN – Audio Exercise 6 Links to an external site.
Review
Read the Strategie box on page 105 for some more tips on how to write creatively in German. Then complete exercise 7 on page 105. Write a positive or a negative restaurant review. Use the texts from exercise 3 to help you.
Extra: why not design it so it looks like a Tripadvisor review?
Interactive Kerboodle activities
Log into Kerboodle and complete the following activities for this module:
- Complete this exercise on using the perfect tense with haben:
COMPLETE – Using the perfect tense (Kerboodle) Links to an external site.
- Complete this listening exercise:
LISTEN – Restaurant Reviews (Kerboodle) Links to an external site.
- Complete this strategy worksheet:
COMPLETE – Using German creatively (Kerboodle) Links to an external site.
- Complete this writing and translation worksheet:
COMPLETE – Writing and Translation Worksheet (Kerboodle) Links to an external site.
Interactive LanguageNut activities
Log into Language Nut and try the Module 1 Topic 4 activities. As usual you can access these under the 'Assignments' tab, but they are also listed here in case you wish to navigate to them independently.
- grammar and verbs; grammar; beginner; perfect tense (haben)
- grammar and verbs; verbs; haben
- vocab trainer; vocab trainer; eating out; eating out
Support and extension exercises for this topic
Watch the following video on YouTube to learn some more about how to order food in a restaurant:
WATCH – Ordering food in German (YouTube) Links to an external site.
Cultural Understanding
German cuisine is wholesome and tasty. For a detailed overview of the German diet, read this interesting article below.
READ – How to eat like a GermanLinks to an external site
Check your answers
If you would like to check your answers for this topic, you can do so by consulting the Echt module answers for Topic 1.4.
CHECK – Answers 1.4 Download CHECK – Answers 1.4
CHECK – Worksheet Answers 1.4 Download CHECK – Worksheet Answers 1.4
CHECK – Audio Transcript 1.4 Links to an external site.
Grammar Alert
Study the Grammatik box on page 105 to learn how to use the perfect tense with haben
Vocabulary
Study the vocabulary section Guten Appetit! on page 117 of your textbook.