Marieke Marieke

Shopping - past simple
Elementary level

Description

In this lesson, students practice using past simple in dialogues around the theme of shopping. They also get practice talking about prices and food items.

Materials

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Main Aims

  • To provide clarification of past simple verbs in the context of shopping for food

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide practice talking about money and how much things cost

Procedure

Warmer/Lead-in (3-5 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

Money - coins and bills - play a game - ask students to tell me which coins to use to make the amounts, practice saying the amounts and the names of the coins https://natwest.mymoneysense.com/students/students-5-8/coin-cruncher/

Exposure (8-10 minutes) • To provide a model of the task and highlight useful words and phrases

Read through first dialogue - review past simple verb forms - practice dialogue progressively removing more words SLIDES - Where were you?

Guided Practice (6-8 minutes) • To provide an opportunity to practice using target language

What were the last things you bought at a shop? Make a list. Then in pairs, ask each other, What did you buy? I bought... How much was it? It was £__. Switch.

Task (8-10 minutes) • To provide an opportunity to practice target productive skills

Activity - going shopping dialogue - Assign students A or B roles. Give B the photos of the items from the shop. A starts. Then switch roles. New B gets images. New A starts.

Language Analysis (6-8 minutes) • To clarify the meaning, form and pronunciation of the task language

SLIDES - past simple - look at structure of questions and negatives - look at verb forms for regular and irregular verbs

Language Practice (8-10 minutes) • To provide students with practice of the task language

Homework - Play the dialogues. (Ann's and Jim's weekend) Ask students to fill in the blanks with past simple verb forms.

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