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Grade 4 · Unit 6 · Mi Región y Tradiciones

En el Restaurante
At the Restaurant

Full-service Spanish: multi-course ordering, special requests, problems politely solved, and the whole restaurant experience role-played to mastery.

🎯 Novice Mid → Novice High📚 4 lessons planned🚧 Lessons in production

Unit objectives

  • Order a three-course meal with drinks
  • Make requests and handle problems: Falta un tenedor
  • Play both customer and server fluently
  • Understand a real menu from a Spanish-speaking country

Can-Do targets

  • I can order a full meal and handle problems politely.
  • I can take an order as a server.
  • I can read a real menu from another country.

Vocabulary scope

de primero, de segundo, el postre, la propina, ¿me trae…?, falta, está frío, delicioso, la especialidad, atender

How this unit builds

The Grade 3 restaurant basics gain courses, problems, and both sides of the exchange — a two-role interpersonal workout preparing IPA-style assessment.

Planned lessons

What this unit will contain

Lessons are produced in the same fully interactive format as Kindergarten — flashcards with audio, games, listening tasks, and take-home activities — and will unlock here as they are finished.

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Lesson 1

El menú completo — courses

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Lesson 2

¿Me trae…? — requests and problems

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Lesson 3

El servidor — playing the server

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Lesson 4

Restaurante abierto — full role-play

Cultural connection

La sobremesa

In Spain and Latin America, the meal doesn’t end when the food does — la sobremesa, lingering at the table talking, can outlast the meal itself. No one brings the check until asked.