Two years of French, and today you walk into a café and handle it yourselves.

Picture a sunny terrace café in a French town square. On the counter sits a small chalkboard menu of drinks with prices in euros, glasses stacked ready, and a waiter waiting to take your order.

Today's board menu (carte des boissons):

• L'eau (carafe): free if you ask
• Le jus d'orange: 3 €
• Le jus de pomme: 3 €
• Le lait: 2 €
• Le café: 2 €
• Le thé: 2 €
• Le chocolat chaud: 3 €
• La limonade: 3 €

You can already greet someone, ask for something, say thank you, and say goodbye. Today you put all four moves together in one short café exchange, and you learn eight drinks from that menu. By the end you will stand up and run the full chat with a partner.

We are at the café counter, reading today's chalkboard menu.

Watch and listen first, because the whole point is that you hear each drink before you try to say it, so there is no guessing here.

For every card you will see the English word and the picture, then hear the French drink with its article from your teacher or the audio, then repeat it together as a class, and only then flip the card to confirm how the French is spelled.

We meet the drinks in two groups of four.

After the first group, you and the class will lock in this order line together, listening to it first and then saying it:

Je voudrais…, s'il vous plaît. (zhuh voo-DREH…, seel voo PLEH)

Full model on the board:

Je voudrais un chocolat chaud, s'il vous plaît.

Then you meet the second group, and after each new drink a volunteer slots it into the same order line using the café form on the board (un / une / de l').

Whole class on the board. Volunteers flip two cards at a time and find each French drink with its English meaning. When a pair is found, say the French together, then one volunteer slots that drink into a full café order:

Je voudrais un / une / de l'…, s'il vous plaît.

Examples: Je voudrais une limonade, s'il vous plaît. · Je voudrais de l'eau, s'il vous plaît.

You will each get a printed bingo card for your desk. If there is no card for you, write the eight drinks from the board menu in a list in your copy and tick them as you hear each one.

Listen for the French drink your teacher calls, and if it is on your card or your list, mark it. The first person with a full line stands up and orders that last drink aloud: Je voudrais…, s'il vous plaît. (use un, une or de l'eau as needed).

We play one quick round only (two only if time is left).