F-03.03 Understand Menus, Bills, Math, Measurements & Labels, Write Lists (with Plurals & Possessives)

WorkLife English: a Competency-Based Reading / Writing Book 2: English in Everyday Life, Chapter 4 / “Food & Things,” pages 46-61

16 pages  

Who It’s For: New Readers / Writers of Data & Phrasing in Menus, Checks, Math Equations, Plurals & Possessives, Measures, Labels, Shopping Lists, & More   

Why You Need It: (Just about) Everybody eats, drinks, and deals with food + amounts (or money) in everyday life.  Here’s (high) beginning material for (all language-skills) practice in use of edibles, money, & amount-related vocabulary (with plurals & possessives) in realia (simulations of real objects) and other practical contexts.     

What You’ll / They’ll Do:  

[1] In Part One / Read & Understand, scan and understand simulated menus.  Improve comprehension and other skills further with real-life realia.   

[2] In Part Two / Information, extract data from a sample restaurant check. With given amounts, read and write math calculations.  Use these as models for dealing with real-life bills. 

[3] In Part Three / Spelling, go over the letters used to spell more possibly confusing consonant sounds.  Review rules for regular & irregular plural and possessive forms.  Follow these in exercises that follow. 

[4]  In Part Four / Read & Write, insert words and phrases for (amounts or numbers of) foods, costs, people, and items in lists.