Ordering in a café

Listen to people ordering food and drinks in a café to practise and improve your listening skills.

Do the preparation task first. Then listen to the audio and do the exercises.

Preparation

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Transcript

Customer 1: Can I have an orange juice, please?

Server: Regular or large?

Customer 1: How big is a large?

Server: This is a large. This is a regular.

Customer 1: I'll have a large, then, please. Without ice.

Server: OK, coming up.

Customer 1: Sorry, I wanted freshly squeezed orange juice.

Server: I'm afraid we only have bottled juices.

Customer 1: Oh, then I'll have an apple juice instead, please.

Server: Here you go. That's £3.50, please.

Customer: Thanks.

Server: Thank you.

Server: Can I help anyone?

Customer 2: Who's next?

Customer 3: You were first, I think.

Customer 2: What teas do you have?

Server: Breakfast tea, mint and green tea.

Customer 2: A mint tea and a slice of lemon cake, please.

Server: To eat in or take away?

Customer 2: Take away, please.

Server: There you go. That'll be £4.20, please.

Customer 2: Sorry, I've only got a fifty.

Server: That's OK. Here's your change … 5, 10, 30, 50.

Server: Who's next?

Customer 4: Can I have a ...

Customer 3: Sorry, I think I was in front of you.

Customer 4: Oh, sorry!

Customer 3: Can I have a chocolate chip cookie, please?

Server: Would you like a drink with that?

Customer 3: No, thanks. Just the cookie.

Server: OK, then. That's 95p, please.

Customer 3: Thanks. I think that's right.

Server: 50, 70, 80, 85, 90, 92, 94, yep, 95. Thank you.

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Discussion

How often do you buy drinks or snacks from cafés?

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I like going to cafés, I buy drinks and snacks every weekend, I will go there as soon as I can.

when i going to the cofes i onlyn buy drinks for example i like frappes.

Maybe 3 or 2 times in a week.

When I go out If I tired I buy coffee as drink. If I very hungry I buy some snacks when I was out.

Only about one time per month because i prefer to eating my mom's cook

I buy food or drinks from coffees around one or two times per week.

I think I have never bought drinks or snacks from cafés.

I often buy drinks and snacks from cafés. I like to buy cofee and drink and eat snacks on the cafés

I´m going to cafe sometimes in the month, I buy a slice of cake and coffee and I eat in

I often buy drinks and snacks. I like squeezed juice more than bottle. But at the moment, I have to drink bottle juice because of the covid 19, the cafe are close.