Ordering Phrases

So whether you’re in a restaurant or not there are some common ways to ask for things and we’ve looked at a couple of these phrases before.

So some of this will be review.

But we do want to talk about a couple of key phrases especially for being in a restaurant.

We can say of course I’d like you can say this on an airplane.

You can say this in a restaurant.

You can say this to your friend do you need anything.

Yeah I’d like a glass of water that’s a little bit too polite.

In some situations but especially if you’re on an airplane if you’re at a restaurant.

Very very common.

I’ll have you go to Starbucks and you want to order a coffee.

You could say I’ll have a cappuccino.

I’ll have a latte.

I’ll have an Americano whatever you want to have.

Or you can make it a question.

Could I please have that question.

Could I please have an Americano.

Or could I please have a menu.

Could I please have diet coke whatever you want to say.

Very common as well.

Sometimes we may want to express a little bit less certainty and so we might say I guess I guess I’ll take this is just a way to make it sound a little bit more casual perhaps.

I guess I’ll take the chicken burrito chicken burrito.

Yeah sometimes it also shows that you’re not totally confident about your choice.

Can I get.

Can.

Can I get.

Can I get a glass of red wine please.

And this is also a question Can I get a glass of red wine please.

OK.

And then finally I think I’ll order.

I think I’ll order the chocolate cake for dessert.

I think I’ll order the chocolate cake.

So these are basically if you know how to use these well these are the most common phrases for asking for what you want.

If you stop this lesson right now stop watching at least you have this.

These are the basics but we are going to go into how they’re used in context remember we do things in context and the reason that we do everything in context in in this situation with real examples is because just knowing one sentence makes it hard to actually then use because you’re not sure if that one sentence exactly fits right.

So when we look at examples you can get a better feeling for how these phrases are used.

So we’ll go through a real situation ordering in a restaurant and leading up to ordering.

So let’s let’s do that.