Shops and shopping.
A2 level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide the Ss with chance to speak and produce the target language in context of shops and shopping.
Subsidiary Aims
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To teach vocabulary for shops in context of shopping.
Procedure (25-45 minutes)
-I will show Ss some bills from the shops and I will ask them: What is it? If I have some bills it means that I was shopping yesterday. -I want to elicit from Ss word "shops" and "shopping" to set the lesson context.
-I will give Ss a HO with pictures and shops vocabulary to match the name of the shop with the picture. -Ss will work in pairs, they can check their answers and then we can check together as a whole class on the WB. -I will teach Ss "chemist's" as an alternative of "pharmacy" . -I will teach more vocabulary like: cafe, patisserie, florist's -Next activity I will ask the Ss to answer: where do people normally buy these things in your country: a newspaper, potatoes, a dictionary, toothpaste, bread, a pair of jeans, aspirin, cakes, flowers, fruit, stamps, coffee, T-shirt, magazines, meat -Later on Ss in pairs, they will ask to each other questions, each student will have different list of things to ask: Where can you buy a newspaper? I can buy a newspaper from a newsagent's Where is the nearest newsagent's? It's in King Street. -I will show Ss a picture of the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul and I will ask: Do they know what it is? What can you buy there? -I want elicit from Ss words like: street market, jewellery, a carpet, a rug , souvenir. -I will do grouping now to change Ss positions for this task. -I will give Ss role-play activity , one student will be a tourist and second student will be working in the Tourist Information Office, telling a tourist about a famous market in their city. -using phrases like: Excuse me, Where is/Where's....Thank you.
- I will give Ss small HO with sentences to choose who's saying it: customer, assistant/cashier -Ss will work in two groups or three small groups, later on they can check their answers. - After that activity I will ask Ss to create a dialogue using the phrases from the task, aslo they will decide in which shop it is happening and what they are selling.
-I will ask Ss to not look and their notes. The will work in pairs this time. -They will create a dialoque without looking to their notes. They should decide who is customer and assistant, I will decide in which shops is happening by giving them a small HO to choose. -They will have 3-4 minutes to prepare and then some pairs will play their role in front of the class.
- when Ss are doing their activity I will be monitoring them. I will collect a selection of their errors and then after the activity I will write a selection of the mistakes on the board and ask students to correct them.