Delicious Phrases to Talk About Food in English Basic English Phrases
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answers that you can train so you can
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begin today we’re going to begin with
questions about like making a decision
like what you want to eat talking about
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 - lets go - 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
regions food food from a specific region
so like Italian are 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 a 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 question so let’s continue
to the next one
so this is the basic 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 what sounds good to you so
you can use this let’s go pattern again
or just use
good in here what sounds good to you
Italian what sounds good to you Chinese
what sounds good to you
Thai 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 is 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 to uh 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
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 I’m 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
the same meaning but it’s focusing on
your feeling 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
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 ok ah 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 ok
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
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 it’s a quick introduction part
there all right I don’t see any other
questions yet masa hey masa on facebook
says food or foods
should this be singular or plural in
this case which we’re probably going to
use food or probably going to use the
singular food foods has some
applications we use foods some in some
specific situations like when we’re
talking about like foods from another
country like specific types of dishes
but for these questions you’re probably
going to use the singular form okay 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
you can use all of these patterns to
answer all of these questions yeah yeah
okay 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
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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 nouns 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 rest
Durrant these are vocabulary words you
can use to finish the questions we
talked about in part 1 so I’ll show you
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let’s continue to part two of today’s
lesson then if you’re just joining today
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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
1 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 I’m 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 hmm 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 do okay another way to
describe like the features like
something you want inside the restaurant
or some feeling about the restaurant is
again starting with let’s go let’s go
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 it let’s go
somewhere also perfectly fine they’re
all ok so some examples are coming in
then some other good ideas at Gertrude
is on youtube says let’s go someplace
romantic good ok and princess let’s go
someplace fancy no I’m broke good ok
Wren says let’s go to Italy restaurant
clothes
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 you sander
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
ok cool what else ah easy and fun
English hello uh says shall we eat to a
restaurant can we say that nope 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 alright on Facebook bori says
let’s go to a place that has a special
dessert menu dessert menu 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 desert
desert has one s small difference but
other things don’t see other example
Lizette on facebook says let’s go to a
place that has a terrace nice perfect
perfect perfect
exactly very nice job okay
resize that our research ok 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
ok
nice Wow really good examples let’s go
to a place that has kabobs that’s good I
ate kebabs yesterday great very nice
example is everybody ok um let’s see we
got about 10 minutes left so I will take
one more break and then we’ll go to the
last part of today’s lesson keep sending
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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 there kind of
three categories and this is the one I
was looking at table requests in the
restaurant we’re going to talk about
ordering at the restaurant at the table
in just a minute
and we’re also going to talk a little
bit maybemaybe a little bit about
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 champion PDF cheat
sheet 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 I saw
someone what does fancy mean gute says
what does fancy mean fancy means some
place where the 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
see 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 and this one’s that good really
nice okay let’s continue to part three
of today’s lesson than Judah says let’s
go to a place that has okay all right
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 gonna get what are you
gonna 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 gonna get what are you gonna get so
to respond to this question specifically
this question specifically I’m gonna get
I’m sorry I’m gonna get plus the dish
name I’m gonna get plus the dish name
okay couple points a couple of points
here one don’t forget this mmm 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
gonna get this so this is a very easy
way to express that this is a situation
where you can use will like yeah 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 no pizza okay
blackout says can we use have instead of
get like what are you gonna have
make sure that’s fine what are you gonna
have that sounds fine what are you gonna
have what are you gonna get also fine
okay no problem uh other questions I’m
gonna get lasagna says Lisette 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
appetizer a PP et ize aren’t 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
man so I’ve written n 8h that’s how we
express man it’s not as direct as no
like no is quite direct so we might say
nah 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 trip let’s get uh what else is
a good appetizer let’s get a salad let’s
get cheese so small food small foods
nice one control desk okay I don’t know
why oh okay
TG Mac says no I don’t want to get
nothing okay a very casual response
using the double negative they’re good
examples though so yes I want to get
salad some people zing uh in French and
appetizer is called entree or aperitif
as well really yeah okay I don’t know
French sorry okay
why does get have so many meanings
because get is it it was 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 gonna
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 its
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 to 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 yeah 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
getting 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 ah
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
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 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 good
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hope that that was like a good
introduction to how to answer these
questions and a few grammatical points
as well too so please use these I hope
that you can use these the next time you
make plans to visit a restaurant in
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