Objective:

To develop ability to use language for buying (and asking about exchanging/refunding) clothes by participating in a roleplay in a clothes shop.
15.00- STARTER: Pairs describe what each other is wearing & f/b. (Correct any errors/provide any language To check students can remember
15.10 needed). clothes vocab from yesterday.
12.10- Improv (we are in a clothes shop; choose a strong student to be the assistant.) Elicit: ‘Can I help you?’ To see if students can already
12.20 Pick up a jumper and ask: Do you have this in a different colour? Do you have it in a smaller size? How understand the relevant vocabulary
much is it? I want to buy it for a friend for her birthday. Can I return it if she doesn’t like it? Will I get my by demonstrating the situation.
money back? Great, I’ll take it – here’s £20. Can I have a receipt please?
12.20- In pairs students try to remember six questions that I asked. To check ability to produce the
12.30 Board the questions leaving gaps for the answers. Drill the pron. language. To check pron.
12.30- Fill in the gaps on the board by eliciting possible answers. Drill pron. To demo how to use the roleplay on
12.40 Choose a stronger student to be the customer and I’ll be the shop assistant – repeat the roleplay. the board to improvise.
12.40- Half the students are shoppers, half are shop assistants. Practice the roleplay. Swap roles and repeat. To practice spoken production of
12.50 Delete some of the roleplay off the board and repeat again. target language.
IF THE ROLEPLAY WAS EASY – do another improv for returning the item (I’d like my money back/what’s
the problem/do you have aa receipt etc.) & board prompts for that.
12.50- Correct any errors in a brief feedback session. To present the language used to
13.00 Get a couple of students (or all depending how many) to demo their roleplay. each other, to make corrections.