Speisen and Getränke

The days are flying by now, and yesterday was our seventh lesson!  It was a particularly useful one for us all as we learnt about food, drink, and ordering in a restaurant.  I’d already picked up a bit of this vocab from my first month in Munich, but I’m really glad that I can now attempt to speak to waiters and waitresses in German.We had fun making up a mock menu, and then taking it in turns to ask how much things cost, and then order beir, wein, kasebrot, wurst etc.  We then learnt how to say ‘I like to eat/drink…’ and ‘I don’t like to eat/drink…’.   For instance, ‘Ich esse gern curry’ (I am British after all! ;) ) and ‘Ich trinke gern wein’.  Before I arrived in Germany, I would’ve said ‘Ich trinke nicht gern bier’, but that’s definitely not true anymore – I order it where ever I go.  We went on to do some listening exercises, and then to had to get into pairs and perform a restaurant scene.  This was particularly good fun, as we all try and make them a bit funny :)Towards the end of the lesson we had a bit of test on what we’d learnt this week (lektion 2 of the book).  It was good to see where I needed to do the most work – in this week’s case on learning which of der, die and das goes with each word.  I’m hoping this will come with time!