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Shopping Lists

SHOPPING LIST 1 loaf white bread 1 bottle of nail polish 1 bag of rice 1/2 a kilo of broccoli 2 cans of coke 500 grams of bacon

SHOPPING LIST 1 box of chocolates 3 pork chops 1 bottle of aspirin 1 cake 1 packet of coffee 1 lettuce

SHOPPING LIST 4 carrots 5 croissants 1 bottle of vitamins 1 box of sugar cubes 250 grams of sweets 1 rack of ribs

SHOPPING LIST Half a dozen eggs 4 tomatoes 1 magazine 4 steaks 2 bread rolls 1 bar of soap

SHOPPING LIST 1 chicken 4 blueberry muffins 1 box of plasters 1 carton of milk 3 cobs of corn 1 bar of chocolate

SHOPPING LIST 4 cartons of yogurt 1 kilo of apples 1 newspaper 200 grams ham 1 baguette 1 tube of toothpaste

Shop Names (Fold along the dotted line)

BAKERY

CHEMIST

SUPERMARKET

GREENGROCER

NEWSAGENT

BUTCHER

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Shopping Items

Bakery

Chemist

Supermarket

Greengrocer

Newsagent

Butcher

Written by Christian Walker for Teach-This.com 20I3

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In this role-play activity, students practice asking for things in different shops. Before class, make one copy of the shop names, shopping lists and shopping items for the whole class. This game works best with a minimum of twelve students. There should be six groups altogether with at least two students in each group. Procedure Pre-teach or revise the language for asking for things in a shop: Customers: Have you got any ...? I would like ... Shop Assistants: How much/many do you want? Yes, here you are. No, Im sorry, I havent. Ask the students what kind of shopping items they would expect to find in the following shops: bakery, chemist, supermarket, greengrocer, newsagent and butcher. Next, divide your class into six groups. Seat each group around a table. Give each group a shop name. Get them to stand it on their table. Also, give each group the shopping items for their shop and a shopping list. The object of the game is for each group to obtain the products on their shopping list. To do this, they must send out one student from their group to obtain the first item on the list from another shop. They should go to the right shop (or what they think is the right shop) and ask, "Have you got any ...?" The shop assistant will ask, "How much/many do you want?" and wait for the reply, before handing over the shopping item card. When they have got the shopping item card, they return to their table, and the next student can go off in search of the next item on the list. Demonstrate how to play by playing the first round (first item) with the whole class together. Make sure each group knows that only one student can go shopping, and that the students left waiting at the table will be the shop assistants for their shop. You can make this role-play into a race to see which group can get all the items on their list first.

Written by Christian Walker for Teach-This.com 20I3