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Daily Life - Seafood Dinner #D0343

A: This is such a nice restaurant! I feel so classy!

B: Yeah, it’s a little bit pricey, but they serve the best seafood in town.

C: May I Take your order?

B: Yes, I would like some marinated grilled shrimp for starters and I’ll also have the lobster.

C: Excellent choice sir. And for you madam?

B: I would like the baked oysters and the seafood platter.

C: Very good madam.

B: That seafood platter sounds good. Excuse me, what does the platter have?

C: It’s a great combination of clams, scallops, squid mussels, calamari and fillets of salmon and tuna. It comes with a side of butter sauce and french fries.

B: That sounds great! Cancel the lobster and give me one of the same please.

C: Very well sir. Anything to drink?

A: Can we get a bottle of your house white wine please?

C: Superb choice. I will be back shortly with the wine.

Key Vocabulary

class - high class

pricey - expensive

marinated - to leave something to be soaked in a sauce for its flavour

starter - as the first step or part

platter - a course of a meal, usually consisting of a variety of foods served on the same plate

clams - edible sea creature that buries it self in the sand

scallops - edible sea creature similar to oysters that move in the water by opening and closing their shell

squid - a sea creature having a having a torpedo shaped body

mussels - edible sea creature that attaches it to something such as a rock

calamari - cooked squid cut into rings

Supplementary Vocabulary

eel - a creature with a long snakelike body, a smooth slimy skin

sushi - cold boiled rice moistened with rice vinegar, usually shaped into bite-size pieces and topped with raw seafood

dodgy - something not good

crab - a hard shelled sea creature