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What are restaurants you go to frequently?

Fast food places?

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Match the following reviews with the correct restaurant listed underneath.

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From Virginia, USA

Background in anthropology

Taught English in USA, Honduras, and Ecuador

English for Academic Purposes, Intensive English Program, Adult Education

Currently teach courses in American Studies and academic writing at University of Bahrain

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Demonstrate various methods of using online restaurant reviews to teach reading and writing

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Students write a Yelp review of their favorite or most recent restaurant visit.

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What are your favorite types of food?

Beverages?

Dessert?

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Have you ever had a bad experience at a restaurant?

If so, what happened?

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Okay, so I really wish I could give this place a better review but the carne asada was OK at best. Way over-priced per taco. I am from california where you can purchase the same tacos for $1 each. I will say that I did like the atmosphere and the barbacoa tacos were delicious, but this is overrated and I will not be returning, especially when you can purchase the ingredients and make them at home.

a. Nords Bakery b. Time for Thai c. El Taco Luchador

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A+ food, A+ service, mush try. My kids loves it too! We always order 3,4 times per week from hear. Yummy food, you wont disappointed, 5 stars!

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Cashier lady yelled at me and she's the one that butchered my order. She forgot to give me dipping sauce for my steamed dumplings and asks me what I want her to do about it. Are you serious?? Completely unprofessional, and I'm stuck with dry dumplings. This restaurant does not value my business at all and I'm willing to travel 12 miles away to the next closest Chinese food restaurant so I don't ever deal with this one ever again! You have officially lost my business.

yelled at: to scold or reprimand

stuck with: to have a burden, something you do not want

deal with: to interact with someone or something

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Okay, so I really wish I could give this place a better review but the carne asada was OK at best. Way over-priced per taco. I am from California where you can purchase the same tacos for $1 each. I will say that I did like the atmosphere and the barbacoa tacos were delicious, but this is overrated and I will not be returning, especially when you can purchase the ingredients and make them at home.

El Taco Luchador

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FIVE STARS! If you are a fan of sweets you need to give this place a try. My personal favorites are the white icing sprinkle donut, the maple creme filled, and the creme filled long john. A dozen usually runs you under $8. The sugar cookies are the best in town. I always get a few dozen for parties that I host. They run $15 a dozen and keep them in stock. They also take specialty orders for cakes and cookies.

a. Nords Bakery b. Time for Thai c. El Taco Luchador

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FIVE STARS! If you are a fan of sweets you need to give this place a try. My personal favorites are the white icing sprinkle donut, the maple creme filled, and the creme filled long john. A dozen usually runs you under $8. The sugar cookies are the best in town. I always get a few dozen for parties that I host. They run $15 a dozen and keep them in stock. They also take specialty orders for cakes and cookies.

Nords Bakery

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This place was hot, slow and the service was super unorganized (probably 4 different people approached our table for different things). The bean sprouts in my pad thai tasted funky. I love pad thai and I truly did not like theirs. We never got refills and they messed up our check twice. I really wanted this place to be my new fave Thai joint since it's near our house. But nope, not with that experience. Not going back.

a. Nords Bakery b. Time for Thai c. El Taco Luchador

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Dramatic reading of a Yelp review - listening

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Dramatic reading of a Yelp review - listening

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Pre-listening questions:

What restaurant is she reviewing?

What did she order?

Why was she unhappy with her order?

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Yelp is a website where anyone can write a review of a business

Started in 2004 and is one of the most popular sites in the US for crowdsourcing reviews

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This place was hot, slow and the service was super unorganized (probably 4 different people approached our table for different things). The bean sprouts in my pad thai tasted funky. I love pad thai and I truly did not like theirs. We never got refills and they messed up our check twice. I really wanted this place to be my new fave Thai joint since it's near our house. But nope, not with that experience. Not going back.

Time for Thai

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blown away

a) very impressed

b) very disappointed

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blown away

a) very impressed

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decked out: to be decorated or dressed for a special event

comfy: comfortable

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Topic sentence: Name the restaurant and type of experience (positive or negative)

Supporting sentences: What made this experience good or bad; quality of food, service

Conclusion: Make a recommendation based on experience

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Students will each write the name of a popular restaurant on a piece of paper, which the teacher will collect and list on the board.

Students will write a Yelp review of the restaurant they chose that excludes the name, then exchange their reviews with classmates and try to guess which restaurant matches the review.

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Yelp review incorporates related vocabulary:

descriptions of food

dining experience

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recent visit to a new restaurant

simple past

a restaurant they go to frequently

simple present (routine), present perfect

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Recently used this to introduce steps in paraphrasing a text

After playing the video, listed the main ideas of the review

ordered everything bagel at DD

unhappy with amount of cream cheese

upset about perceived regulation of fat consumption

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polklaurae@gmail.com

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Includes information about operating hours, type of cuisine, atmosphere, services offered, etc

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Reviews tend to use straightforward, conversational language

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Using Yelp review for paraphrasing practice

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Using Yelp review for paraphrasing practice

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If they had 0 stars I would have rated it 0. I had heard about the great reviews and thought since I was downtown I would give it a try. The appetizer was about a 6, the scallops were not the greatest but the black beans had a good flavor. Main dish was the meat of the day. I assume it was prepared correctly but it was just not to my taste at all.  I was very hungry going to dinner but was unable to make myself finish even half of my meal. I may have gone on a bad night, but from my personal experience 1 star is all I could give it.

Students list main ideas, then write their own paraphrase of the review.

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A+ food, A+ service, mush try. My kids loves it too! We always order 3,4 times per week from hear. Yummy food, you wont disappointed, 5 stars!

must try

My kids love it

here

won't be disappointed