black friday
Save 40% on all Premium packages cyber monday

At the Chinese restaurant

"Au restaurant chinois"
French A2 writing exercise

James is ordering food in a Chinese restaurant.

Pay attention to the hints!

Some vocabulary you may want to look up before or during this exercise: "to make one's choice", "a menu", "sushi", "to serve [something]", "Japanese", "an idiot", "to have (food)", "fried shrimps", "egg fried rice", "a beer", "a shot of (drink)", "to digest".

Written by Qualified French Expert Aurélie Drouard HKH, Licence d'anglais LLCE
Last updated: 2023-03-13

I’ll give you some sentences to translate into French

  • I’ll show you where you make mistakes
  • I’ll keep track of what you need to practise
  • Change my choices if you want
Start the exercise
How the test works
You’ll practise: Le Présent (Indicatif), Forme négative, Le Passé Composé (Indicatif)

Here's a preview of the text for the writing challenge, when you're ready click the start button above:

- Hello, have you made your choice? - Not yet. I have a question for you: I didn't find sushi on your menu... - We don't serve sushi sir, this is a Chinese restaurant, not Japanese. - Oh, I'm sorry! What an idiot! I'm going to have fried shrimps and egg fried rice please. - Very good, and what would you like to drink with that? - I don't know if you have Tiger beer? - Yes, of course! - So, I would like a Tiger beer, and a shot of huangjiu to digest!

Clever stuff happening!