Grocery Store
Level 2 - Medium Beginning ESL level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide practice of identifying, naming, locating, and counting groceries
Subsidiary Aims
Perhaps the most important element of any plan is the part where we say what our aims are.Jeremy Harmer in The Practice of English Language Teaching
Procedure (154-182 minutes)
Based on the shopping cart handout, ask students what foods they see.
Using the food category handout, split Ss into two groups to identify as many foods as possible from the word bank at the bottom of the page.
T introduce measure articles (some, a, an) and ask Ss to name back foods using appropriate article.
Ss each formulate a question using 3 elements: 1) W-question (which, what) 2) preposition from previous lesson (next to, near, under, on, beside, etc.) 3) new food vocabulary + measure word Ss ask and answer questions in the large group.
Ss watch a video of a shopper asking for foods in a grocery store and are asked to practice pronunciation as they hear familiar words. T/Ss ask follow-up questions about scenario.
students get a 15-minute break.
Review containers and fill in blanks in handout as a group.
T explain concept of "how much" vs "how many" and give examples for context. Recall previous examples of countable items (a, an, some) and how they relate to "much" vs "many." Relate to container words. Optional: little/few. Ss each write two questions about quantity of foods.
T choose 5 S-written questions for group ask -- lead in to semi-controlled practice. Ss pair up to practice asking and answering questions using all previous frameworks and handouts: 1) W- + preposition + food vocab 2) How much/many + food vocab 3) Container vocab + food vocab
Asking questions using all previous frameworks introduced
Using all previously reviewed materials, Ss use shopping list template to write their own shopping list for their favorite meal. As a group, Ss share list of ingredients and others try to guess the dish they are making!
Ss talk about what they will shop for this evening.