A1 · Lesson 024

Street food

Choose a dish and quantity, ask for your preferred spice and specify takeaway.

By the end of this lesson

Order a simple street-food meal and understand the vendor’s reply.

Use food names and quantities, then practise a complete order and a takeaway request.

Say this now

Say as a mankhǒr sôm dtam mâi phèt mâak khrápขอส้มตำไม่เผ็ดมากครับ

Say as a womankhǒr sôm dtam mâi phèt mâak khâขอส้มตำไม่เผ็ดมากค่ะ

Prices in the conversations are invented practice examples.

Sentence shape: please give me → papaya salad → not very spicy → polite ending

please give me papaya saladkhǒr sôm dtamขอส้มตำ

not very spicymâi phèt mâakไม่เผ็ดมาก

polite endingkhrápครับ

Use complete lines and natural replies.

Recognise the words and their meaning.

Choose a response and build a sentence.

Follow a complete exchange.

Match taught words and phrases to meanings.

Understand the same language by ear.

Bring the useful language back from memory.