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El Restaurante Fantástico – Spanish Food Role-Play

Students role-play ordering and serving meals in Spanish, using a priced menu, food cards, place-setting diagrams and play money.
Grades
Grades 1–5
Pages
10
File type
PDF
Preparation
Print ready

Updated Sep 27, 2026

Subject
Foreign Languages, Spanish
Topic
Spanish Food, Restaurant Role-Play
Resource types
Activities, Flashcards, Games
Preparation
Print ready

Product description

From the author

Practise Spanish food vocabulary with a restaurant role-play game. Students should first be familiar with basic food vocabulary in Spanish. Use menus, play money, place setting, and food flashcards and have kids role-play ordering food in Spanish at a restaurant.

Included with this resource:

  • - Menu for “El Restaurante Fantástico”

  • - Place setting, one with labels and one without, (fork, knife, spoon, plate, glass, napkin, salt & pepper)

  • - 44 Food Flashcards for breakfast, lunch, dinner, drinks, and desserts

  • - Fake dollar bills (1's, 5's, and 10's)

  • - Detailed instructions for playing the game

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • 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.

Teaching tips

  • Check access to and preview 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.

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

Skills covered

  • 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.

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

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

How many students can play at once?

Up to four students can be customers at a time, ordering from one server who matches their requests to the food flashcards.

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Concepts & topics

Core concepts

  • Spanish food vocabulary

  • Role-play game

  • Table-setting vocabulary

  • Counting in Spanish

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