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TEACHER’S

TALKING SHOP NOTES

Age: Teenager/Adult Focus on ways to describe something, e.g.


Level: Pre-intermediate (A2)
-- you use it for + ing
Time: 30 minutes
-- it’s a round, square, rectangular thing
Activity: In this lesson, students will: -- it’s made of glass, wood, plastic, etc.
1. learn shopping expressions
2. complete a shopping dialogue Students complete the sentence in number 6. Then they
3. role-play buying clothes practise the dialogues in pairs, extending the conversations
4. match descriptions and objects as they wish.
5. practise describing objects Key:
Language focus: shopping expressions, describing /
defining objects Exercise 1:
Materials: one copy of the worksheet per student
1. c

2. h
PROCEDURE
Ask students to work in pairs and make a list of 3. b
expressions people use when they go shopping. Write 4. e
some of these on the board, correcting and improving the
English as you do so. 5. f

6. a
Hand out copies of the worksheet. Students do Exercise
1. Check answers and work on the pronunciation of the 7. g
expressions. Ask students what type of shop they could use
8. d
these expressions in. (Answer: in a clothes shop.)

Tell students they are going to put the expressions in a Exercise 2:


conversation. Students do Exercise 2. Check answers. Can I help you?
Students practise the conversation in pairs until they have Yes. I’d like to try on that red sweater in the window.
memorized it.
What size?
As an extension activity, ask everyone in the class to put
their coats and jackets in one place. Students work in Medium, I think.
pairs and take turns as a shop assistant and customer. Here you are.
The customers want to buy a coat or jacket and the shop
Thanks. Can I try it on?
assistants have to try to sell them one. The customer can
try on different models and discuss the size, colour and Yes, of course.
style with the shop assistant. The role play ends when the
Where are the changing rooms?
customer chooses a coat or jacket, or decides to leave the
shop. Students swap roles and repeat. They’re over there on the right.

Ask students how you can ask for something in a shop if Does it fit OK?
you don’t know the name for it. (Answer: by describing it Well, it feels a bit small.
and what it’s used for.)
That’s the style.
Students do Exercise 3. They read the descriptions of
What about the colour?
objects and match each with a picture. Check answers and
also the names of the objects. The colour really suits you.

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TEACHER’S
TALKING SHOP NOTES

Do you think it goes with these jeans? Exercise 3:

Oh, yeah. Red goes really well with blue. 1. c (Tippex, white out)

How much is it? 2. f (a light bulb)

€30 3. a (toothpaste)

OK. I’ll take it. 4. b (an electric drill)

How would you like to pay? 5. e (drawing pins, thumb tacks)

I haven’t got much cash on me. Can I pay by credit 6. d (washing-up liquid, sponge or rubber gloves)
card?

Of course you can.

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Everyday Life: Talking shop
TALKING SHOP WORKSHEET
EXERCISE 1: SHOPPING EXPRESSIONS
Match the shopping expressions (1–8) with the meanings (a–h).

____ 1. Can I help you? a. I want to know the price

____ 2. Can I try it on? b. I don’t want to put it on in front of other customers.

____ 3. Where are the changing rooms? c. I know what we have in the shop.

____ 4. Does it fit OK? d. I want to know what ways I can pay.

____ 5. Do you think it goes with these jeans? e. I want to know if the size is correct.

____ 6. How much is it? f. I want to know if the combination of colours is OK.

____ 7. It’ll take it. g. I want to buy it.

____ 8. Can I pay by credit card? h. I want to put it on to see if I like it.

EXERCISE 2: A SHOPPING CONVERSATION


Put the questions from Exercise 1 into this dialogue. You decide where they go!

Customer: Yes. I’d like to try on the at red sweater in the window.

Shop assistant: What size?

Customer: Medium, I think.

Shop assistant: Here you are.

Customer: Thanks.

Shop assistant: Yes, of course.

Shop assistant: They’re over there on the right.

[The customer goes to the changing rooms.]

Customer: Well, it feels a bit small.

Shop assistant: That’s the style.

Customer: What about the colour?

Shop assistant: The colour really suits you.

Shop assistant: Oh, yeah. Red goes really well with blue.

Shop assistant: €30.

Shop assistant: How would you like to pay?

Customer: I haven’t got much cash on me.

Shop assistant: Of course you can.

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TALKING SHOP WORKSHEET

EXERCISE 3: BUYING SOMETHING YOU DON’T KNOW THE NAME FOR


Match each shop dialogue 1–6 with one of the objects a–f. Complete the final sentence for the final object.

1. – Can I help you?


– Yes. I’d like a bottle of that white liquid you use for correcting mistakes when you’re writing.

2. – Can I help you?


– Yes. I need one of those round things made of glass that go in lamps.

3. – Can I help you?


– Yes. I don’t know what it’s called, but it’s that stuff you use for cleaning your teeth.

4. – Can I help you?


– Yes. I want to buy one of those electrical machines for making holes in walls.

5. – Can I help you?


– Yes. Have you got any of those things you use for putting posters on a cork board?

6. – Can I help you?


– Yes. I’_______________________________________________________________.

a. b. c.

d. e. f.

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