Retail and Hospitality - WAITER / WAITRESS/BAR ATTENDANT

Where do those knives and forks go?

Primary

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Personal and social capability

1. Have a look at the following table setting and memorise the way the table is set.

2. Practice at home for when you have:

a. Soup and the main meal

b. Main meal and dessert

b. Main meal and buttered roll

Comedy Drama: There's a rat in my soup! or Basil the Rat

Middle  Secondary

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Critical and creative thinking

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Literacy

Cooperative Learning Activity

1. Form groups of 5 - 6 students.

Watch the episodes [not complete] of Fawlty Towers called "Basil the Rat"

a. Siberian Hamster

https://youtu.be/khoJsN3nNzM

b. Rat and biscuits

https://youtu.be/Y7rdmhMRX7w

2. You are to remake this episode with some different ideas but the main character is to be Manuel, the waiter!

3. You are to allocate the following characters:

• John Cleese's character, Basil Fawlty
• Sybil, his wife
• the waiter Manuel
• Polly the waitress, and
• Terry the chef.

These characters will be joined by someone playing the Health Inspector.

What to do:

4. Together as a group, write an exciting, fun scene involving these characters after you have viewed the episode of Fawlty Towers and after looking at the following:

How to Write a Television Script
https://youtu.be/o0XH2VgQm1U

How to write a TV show script

5. Act out the script you have just made and make a movie of your play using Magisto 

6. Present it to the class. Which is the funniest script and presentation?

7. Send it in to "On the Job" so we can put it on this web site.

Websites, Games & Apps:

The Waitress Primary Middle  Australian Curriculum General Capability: ICT Capability
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Restaurant Waiter: Thrills and Spills Primary Middle  Australian Curriculum General Capability: ICT Capability