El Restaurante Fantástico – Spanish Food Role-Play

Students can order a meal in Spanish using vocabulary for drinks, breakfast, lunch, dinner, fruits, vegetables, and dessert.

Students can name the eight table-setting items in Spanish (el tenedor, el plato, la servilleta, and others).

Students can count out play money in Spanish to match a menu item's listed price.

Play the recommended YouTube video before the game so students arrive with the basic food vocabulary the role-play assumes.

Print the menu, flashcards, and place settings on cardstock and laminate them, as the file recommends, so the set holds up to repeated play.

Rotate which students play customer versus server across class periods so everyone practices both ordering and vocabulary recall.

Add the play-money counting step once students are comfortable with the food vocabulary, since the file frames it as an optional added challenge.

Spanish food-vocabulary recall — students order breakfast, lunch, dinner, drinks, fruits, vegetables, or dessert items by name from the menu.

Role-play/oral production — students take turns as customer and server, speaking requests and matching flashcards to orders.

Table-setting vocabulary — students learn eight place-setting terms (el tenedor, el plato, la servilleta, and others) from the labeled diagram.

Applied counting in Spanish — students count out play money to match a menu item's price.