Listening task 1: What would you like?
A Listen. People are ordering food in a restaurant. Check (✓) their orders.
Answer & Audioscripts
1 French onion
2 Large
3 ketchup, lettuce, mushrooms, mustard, onions, pickles, tomatoes (everything except cheese)
4 pasta salad
Audioscripts in B below
B Listen again. Circle the correct information.
1 The woman doesn’t like vegetables / chicken.
2 Active Lemon Light has no flavor / too much sugar.
3 The man thinks cheese has too much fat / doesn’t taste good.
4 She doesn’t like onions / tomatoes.
Answer & Audioscripts
1 The woman doesn’t like vegetables.
2 Active Lemon Light has no flavor.
3 The man thinks cheese has too much fat.
4 She doesn’t like tomatoes.
Audioscripts
1 soup
Server: Have you decided?
Woman: Yes, I’d like some soup, please. What’s the soup of the day?
Server: Soup of the day? It’s chicken vegetable.
Woman: Chicken vegetable? I don’t think so. I don’t like vegetables very much. I guess I’ll have the French onion.
Server: French onion soup? Very good. And would you like something to drink with that?
2 drink
Server: And what would you like to drink with that?
Man: Active Lemon. Large, please.
Server: OK. Would you like to try the new Active Lemon Light? It’s got no sugar or caffeine and just one calorie.
Man: Hmm … I tried some the other day. No sugar and no flavor. I’ll go with the original one.
Server: One Active Lemon Original. You said large?
Man: Right.
3 toppings
Man: Let’s see. Give me a … giant Monster Burger.
Server: One Monster Burger – giant size. And what would you like on that?
Man: Pretty much everything. Ketchup, uh … mustard, onions, lettuce, pickles, and, uh, tomatoes.
Server: Any mushrooms?
Man: Mushrooms? Yeah. They’re good for me, right?
Server: How about cheese?
Man: No cheese. I’d better watch the fat.
Server: OK. One giant Monster Burger with everything. Except … no cheese!
Man: Gotta start counting calories somewhere.
Server: Right.
4 salad
Server: And would you like a salad with that?
Woman: Yes, um, the garden salad. Are there tomatoes in that?
Server: Yes ma’am. There are.
Woman: Oh, I don’t like tomatoes much. How about in the pasta salad?
Server: No tomatoes in that. There’s broccoli and, uh, mushrooms and onions, but no tomatoes.
Woman: Let me have the pasta salad then. And for dessert, I’ll have the chocolate cake.
Listening task 2: This looks great!
A Listen. Which foods are the people talking about? Number the pictures from 1 to 6. (There is one extra food item.)
Answer & Audioscripts
1 ice cream 3 sushi 5 fish
2 pizza 4 burritos 6 Coffee
Audioscripts in B below
B Listen again. How did you know? Write the words that gave you the hints.
1 _______________
2 _______________
3 _______________
4 _______________
5 _______________
6 _______________
Answer & Audioscripts
1 dessert, chocolate, vanilla
2 toppings (mushrooms, black olives, green peppers, extra cheese), a slice
3 Asia center, rice, sticky, raw fish
4 chicken, beef, hot sauce, salsa, spicy
5 with lemon, bones, ocean
6 pot, cream and sugar, black
Audioscripts
1
Woman: Hey, this is a nice restaurant. Let’s eat here.
Man: It is nice, and the food’s great. I’ve eaten here before.
Woman: OK. Let’s check out the menu board.
Man: Sure.
Woman: Well, I know what I’m having for dessert. Just look at this picture!
Man: You’ll get chocolate, right? You always get chocolate.
Woman: I know, but maybe I’ll have vanilla today for something different.
Man: Wow! Vanilla? That’s a change.
2
Man: OK. Now that you’ve decided on dessert, let’s order the real food!
Woman: All right. Hey, look at all the toppings on that. Mushrooms, onions, black olives, green peppers, and extra cheese. It looks great.
Man: Yeah, it looks delicious. I’m going to order one. A big one.
Woman: Can I have a slice of yours?
3
Woman: Or we could get some of this. It looks really good, too.
Man: It does look good, but I can make it at home now. I’m taking a cooking class at the Asia Center. You know, it’s actually pretty easy to make.
Woman: Really? So how do you get the rice to stick together?
Man: Oh, it’s the kind of rice. You need to use short-grain rice. It’s kind of sticky. You just stick it together with your hands and put a piece of raw fish on it.
Woman: Hmm. It sounds easy enough. Will you teach me sometime?
4
Woman: Gee, these look good, too. What’s in them?
Man: Well, you can get chicken or beef, and they have onions, peppers, and tomatoes in them.
Woman: Maybe I’ll try one with beef.
Man: I’ve had them here before, and they’re really spicy. You don’t need to put hot sauce, salsa, or anything on them.
Woman: Hmm. I’m not sure I want spicy food. Maybe I’ll try them some other day.
5
Woman: Oh, that looks delicious. Mmm, with some lemon. I think I’ll have that. Yep. I’ve decided.
Man: Gee, maybe I will, too. But I hope there aren’t a lot of bones.
Woman: Oh, don’t be silly. They’ll take the bones out for you, and I’m sure it’s fresh from the ocean. It’ll taste delicious.
Man: That’s true. I guess I will order that. Let’s hurry up and order. I’m Starving.
6
Woman: Oh, and one last thing. With my dessert, I’m going to order a whole pot of that! I’ll be sleepy after all that food.
Man: And you’ll add lots of cream and sugar, right?
Woman: No, no. Just black. I don’t want to overdo it!
Man: I know what you mean. Well, are you ready to order?
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