Ordering food: good for practicing food vocabulary, ordering skills and basic computer skills

This is an activity that is inspired by Betsy's blog. Betsy posted an activity related to ordering shoes from the Nike site, and I thought an interesting related activity would be to order food online. This would be useful for practicing vegetable and meat vocabulary, since those are most of the toppings. Pizza Hut probably has the most straightforward site to use: the main page gives you a direct link to the online ordering page, and the directions are easy to follow from there. Domino's and Papa John's are a little more complicated: you would need to make sure your students click on the "Build your own pizza" option on the Domino's site and the "Create your own pizza" option on the Papa John's site. But these sites have the advantage of a much more fun and knowledge-cementing pizza-building experience: when you click on a topping, they fall onto a picture of the pizza.

As I said, this activity could be useful for practicing food vocabulary. It could also give students another tool to order food, since phone interactions are usually difficult. Speaking of phone interactions, an extension of this activity could be to call the pizza place and order a pizza once they are comfortable with all the options available online. Finally, I think these sites can be useful if your students are interested in improving their computer skills. Theses sites are easy to maneuver and the vocabulary should be pretty familiar to most adults in Community Ed classes (most people order pizza at some point and many of your students may have a Pizza Hut and Domino's in their home countries). It is a very practical activity, and students could maybe order a pizza for a class party.