Language Circle

1. Restaurant Workers
Language circle
Lesson adapted from: https://www.cbc.ca/learning-english/restaurant-workers-
level-2-1.5444428

2. Objectives
• Recall specific details in a news story about
restaurant workers shortage
• Discuss different factors that discourage young
people from working in restaurant industry
• Reflect on possible solutions to the problem of
restaurant workers shortage
• Practice using present perfect in context

3. Learning English with CBC
Screenshot of CBC learning-English website

4. Agenda
1. Speaking
2. Vocabulary
3. Listening
4. Grammar
5. Reading
6. Reflect on learning

5. Speaking

6. Restaurant Workers
• Today’s topic is about restaurant workers.
– Do you like to eat out? If so what are your
favorite cuisines?
– How would you feel if you eat in a restaurant
that is understaffed?
– In your opinion, how can restaurants attract
young workers again and solve the labour
shortage problem?

7. Vocabulary

8. labour shortage core exploding to be delayed
job vacancy one’s own making scour
1. to search for something thoroughly
2. to cause the situation or create the problem for oneself
3. growing or increasing very quickly
4. the center or most important part of something
5. lack of enough qualified candidates for employment in a
specific field
6. to be waiting to start or begin
7. a job that is open and available for someone to take.

9. labour shortage core exploding to be delayed
job vacancy one’s own making
1. to search for something thoroughly scour
2. to cause the situation or create the problem for oneself
3. growing or increasing very quickly
4. the center or most important part of something
5. lack of enough qualified candidates for employment in a
specific field
6. to be waiting to start or begin
7. a job that is open and available for someone to take.

10. labour shortage core exploding to be delayed
job vacancy
1. to search for something thoroughly scour
2. to cause the situation or create the problem for oneself one’s own making
3. growing or increasing very quickly
4. the center or most important part of something
5. lack of enough qualified candidates for employment in a
specific field
6. to be waiting to start or begin
7. a job that is open and available for someone to take.

11. labour shortage core to be delayed
job vacancy
1. to search for something thoroughly scour
2. to cause the situation or create the problem for oneself one’s own making
3. growing or increasing very quickly exploding
4. the center or most important part of something
5. lack of enough qualified candidates for employment in a
specific field
6. to be waiting to start or begin
7. a job that is open and available for someone to take.

12. labour shortage to be delayed
job vacancy
1. to search for something thoroughly scour
2. to cause the situation or create the problem for oneself one’s own making
3. growing or increasing very quickly exploding
4. the center or most important part of something core
5. lack of enough qualified candidates for employment in a
specific field
6. to be waiting to start or begin
7. a job that is open and available for someone to take.

13. to be delayed
job vacancy
1. to search for something thoroughly scour
2. to cause the situation or create the problem for oneself one’s own making
3. growing or increasing very quickly exploding
4. the center or most important part of something core
5. lack of enough qualified candidates for employment labour shortage
6. to be waiting to start or begin
7. a job that is open and available for someone to take.

14. job vacancy
1. to search for something thoroughly scour
2. to cause the situation or create the problem for oneself one’s own making
3. growing or increasing very quickly exploding
4. the center or most important part of something core
5. lack of enough qualified candidates for employment labour shortage
6. to be waiting to start or begin to be delayed
7. a job that is open and available for someone to take.

15. 1. to search for something thoroughly scour
2. to cause the situation or create the problem for oneself one’s own making
3. growing or increasing very quickly exploding
4. the center or most important part of something core
5. lack of enough qualified candidates for employment labour shortage
6. to be waiting to start or begin to be delayed
7. a job that is open and available for someone to take. job vacancy

16. LISTENING

17. Listening
Let’s listen to “Restaurant workers”by
Learning English with CBC.
https://www.cbc.ca/learning-
english/restaurant-workers-level-2-
1.5444428

18. 1- Listening for details
The grand opening of the Burmese restaurant Popa
has been___________ a month because there is no
staff to work.
a. detained
b. delayed
c. determined
d. destroyed
Link to original lesson CBC website

19. 1- Listening for details
The grand opening of the Burmese restaurant Popa
has been___________ a month because there is no
staff to work.
a. detained
b. delayed
c. determined
d. destroyed
Link to original lesson CBC website

20. 2- Listening for details
While the overall job market is tight, the number of
job vacancies in bars and restaurants is the highest in
almost five years. The meaning of ‘job vacancies’
is_____________.
a. jobs available
b. jobs taken
c. difficult jobs
d. hard to find jobs
Link to original lesson CBC website

21. 2- Listening for details
While the overall job market is tight, the number of
job vacancies in bars and restaurants is the highest in
almost five years. The meaning of ‘job vacancies’
is_____________.
a. jobs available
b. jobs taken
c. difficult jobs
d. hard to find jobs
Link to original lesson CBC website

22. 3- Listening for details
Young people are finding jobs in other fields, even
though they were traditionally the core of the food-
service industry. In this sentence, the meaning of
‘core’ is_____________.
a. the center of a piece of fruit
b. part of a nuclear reactor
c. the center of the planet
d. the most important part
Link to original lesson CBC website

23. 3- Listening for details
Young people are finding jobs in other fields, even
though they were traditionally the core of the food-
service industry. In this sentence, the meaning of
‘core’ is_____________.
a. the center of a piece of fruit
b. part of a nuclear reactor
c. the center of the planet
d. the most important part
Link to original lesson CBC website

24. 4- Listening for details
Today, there is greater demand for staff because the
food industry ___________ with new restaurants and
new services available.
a. is exploring
b. are exploring
c. is exploding
d. are exploding
Link to original lesson CBC website

25. 4- Listening for details
Today, there is greater demand for staff because the
food industry ___________ with new restaurants and
new services available.
a. is exploring
b. are exploring
c. is exploding
d. are exploding
Link to original lesson CBC website

26. 5- Listening for details
Some people say the labour shortage is the industry’s
own making. What does the phrase, ‘ one’s own
making’ mean?
a. to cause the situation or problem for yourself
b. to solve the problem on your own
c. to respond to the problem
d. to work alone to fix the problem
Link to original lesson CBC website

27. 5- Listening for details
Some people say the labour shortage is the industry’s
own making. What does the phrase, ‘ one’s own
making’ mean?
a. to cause the situation or problem for yourself
b. to solve the problem on your own
c. to respond to the problem
d. to work alone to fix the problem
Link to original lesson CBC website

28. 6- Listening for details
Hemant Bhagwani scoured ( searched carefully) the
world and offered profit sharing and ownership shares
to find workers for his new restaurant. ‘ profit sharing’
means______________.
a. workers share in the work
b. employees give some tips to their employer
c. Workers profit from flexible schedules
d. employees will get a percentage of the profit (
income minus expenses)
Link to original lesson CBC website

29. 6- Listening for details
Hemant Bhagwani scoured ( searched carefully) the
world and offered profit sharing and ownership shares
to find workers for his new restaurant. ‘ profit sharing’
means______________.
a. workers share in the work
b. employees give some tips to their employer
c. Workers profit from flexible schedules
d. employees will get a percentage of the profit (
income minus expenses)
Link to original lesson CBC website

30. Grammar

31. Present Perfect Tense
• We use the present perfect to show a
finished past action. The exact time isn’t
mentioned because it is unknown or
unimportant.
• We use the present perfect to show an
action that started in the past, continues
into the present and may continue into the
future.

32. Present Perfect Tense
Examples:
– It’s been a tough ride.
– We’ve advertised on Job Bank.
– The bar has been put here in at a different
way.
– Hemant Bhagwani has offered ownership
shares and profit sharing.
– It hasn’t completely changed, but that
shortage has created that kind of change.

33. Present Perfect Tense
Put the verb in parenthesis into the present perfect tense.
1. Mona ( walk) __________ on the Great Wall of China.
2. Jaimy ( go)____________on vacation.
3. My friends ( travel) ____________ a long way to visit me.
4. We ( drive) _____________ across the country.
5. I ( buy)____________ tickets to go to Cuba next month.
6. You ( sail) ____________ a boat before, haven’t you?

34. Present Perfect Tense
Put the verb in parenthesis into the present perfect tense.
1. Mona ( walk) has walked on the Great Wall of China.
2. Jaimy ( go)____________on vacation.
3. My friends ( travel) ____________ a long way to visit me.
4. We ( drive) _____________ across the country.
5. I ( buy)____________ tickets to go to Cuba next month.
6. You ( sail) ____________ a boat before, haven’t you?

35. Present Perfect Tense
Put the verb in parenthesis into the present perfect tense.
1. Mona has walked on the Great Wall of China.
2. Jaimy has gone on vacation.
3. My friends ( travel) ____________ a long way to visit me.
4. We ( drive) _____________ across the country.
5. I ( buy)____________ tickets to go to Cuba next month.
6. You ( sail) ____________ a boat before, haven’t you?

36. Present Perfect Tense
Put the verb in parenthesis into the present perfect tense.
1. Mona has walked on the Great Wall of China.
2. Jaimy has gone on vacation.
3. My friends have travelled a long way to visit me.
4. We ( drive) _____________ across the country.
5. I ( buy)____________ tickets to go to Cuba next month.
6. You ( sail) ____________ a boat before, haven’t you?

37. Present Perfect Tense
Put the verb in parenthesis into the present perfect tense.
1. Mona has walked on the Great Wall of China.
2. Jaimy has gone on vacation.
3. My friends have travelled a long way to visit me.
4. We have driven across the country.
5. I ( buy)____________ tickets to go to Cuba next month.
6. You ( sail) ____________ a boat before, haven’t you?

38. Present Perfect Tense
Put the verb in parenthesis into the present perfect tense.
1. Mona has walked on the Great Wall of China.
2. Jaimy has gone on vacation.
3. My friends have travelled a long way to visit me.
4. We have driven across the country.
5. I have bought tickets to go to Cuba next month.
6. You ( sail) ____________ a boat before, haven’t you?

39. Present Perfect Tense
Put the verb in parenthesis into the present perfect tense.
1. Mona has walked on the Great Wall of China.
2. Jaimy has gone on vacation.
3. My friends have travelled a long way to visit me.
4. We have driven across the country.
5. I have bought tickets to go to Cuba next month.
6. You have sailed a boat before, haven’t you?

40. Present Perfect Tense
Practice asking questions in present perfect
using ‘ever’ and give short answers.
1- travel/ another country
2- see/ Eiffel Tower
3- go/ cruise
4- be stuck/ in an elevator
5- fall/ down the stairs in front of others
6- forget/ your mom’s birthday

41. Reading

42. Do Robots Make Good Waiters?
Please, go to
https://www.sld.com/blog/food-service/robots-as-
waitstaff-in-restaurants/
- Do you agree or disagree of the idea of using
robots in restaurants? Why?
-In point form, paraphrase ( re-write) in your own
words a few of the advantages and disadvantages
to having non-human waiters in restaurants as
presented in the article.
.

43. Reflect on
Learning

44. What did you learn today?
• Discuss possible reasons that deter
young people from working in
restaurant industry.
• Reflect on some solutions that
restaurant owners can implement to
attract more qualified applicants to the
business.

45. Homework
• Go to the CBC lesson below
https://www.cbc.ca/learning-
english/restaurant-workers-level-2-
1.5444428
• Work on other skills in the lesson

47. Date or Other Description Goes Here
See you next time!