The English Cafe

"Oh my Gosh, I want some of those sweets! How much are they?"

The English Cafe is a role-play class specificially designed to give learners first-hand experience at shopping in the English language. Above, you can see a "waiter" expertly pouring a glass of coke for a "customer".

Next (see below), the customer has to go to the checkout to pay. In the activity, each student is given real english money (the grand total of 40pence) with which to buy sweets, drinks or something to eat. Above, Brian, the Teacher, is explaining one of the finer points of shopping and bargaining to one of the learners.

Leaners really enjoy this activity. It is spit up into two seperate classes - Cafe language and Drama Cafe. In the first class, learners practice and do exercises on phrases, customs and vocabulary relating to visiting a cafe. They learn about what customers and waiters say. Then, in Drama Cafe, they are brought to a specially set-up room on Campus in which to practice the activity with real food and money. This activity proved to be very very popular among our students.