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1 loaf white bread 1 box of chocolates 4 carrots

1 bottle of nail polish 3 pork chops 5 croissants
1 bag of rice 1 bottle of aspirin 1 bottle of vitamins
1/2 a kilo of broccoli 1 cake 1 box of sugar cubes
2 cans of coke 1 packet of coffee 250 grams of sweets
500 grams of bacon 1 lettuce 1 rack of ribs

SHOPPING LIST SHOPPING LIST SHOPPING LIST

Half a dozen eggs 1 chicken 4 cartons of yogurt

4 tomatoes 4 blueberry muffins 1 kilo of apples
1 magazine 1 box of plasters 1 newspaper
4 steaks 1 carton of milk 200 grams ham
2 bread rolls 3 cobs of corn 1 baguette
1 bar of soap 1 bar of chocolate 1 tube of toothpaste

Shop Names (Fold along the dotted line)

BAKERY CHEMIST SUPERMARKET

GREENGROCER NEWSAGENT BUTCHER

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Bakery Chemist Supermarket Greengrocer Newsagent Butcher

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In this noteworthy role-play activity, students act as customers and shop assistants and
practice the language for buying and selling things in a shop.

Before class, make one copy of the shop names, shopping items and shopping lists and cut
as indicated.

Procedure

Pre-teach or revise the language for buying and selling things in a shop:

Examples:

Customer
Have you got any...?
I would like...

Shop Assistant
How much/many do you want?
Yes, here you are. / No, I’m sorry, I haven’t.

Ask the students what kind of shopping items they would expect to find in the following
shops: a bakery, a chemist, a supermarket, a greengrocer, a newsagent and a butcher's
shop.

Next, divide the class into six groups.

Ask each group to sit around a table. Give each group a shop name. Get them to stand it on
their table. Also, give each group the shopping items for their shop and a shopping list.

The object of the activity is for each group to obtain the products on their shopping list.

To do this, they send out one student from their group to obtain the first item on the list from
another shop. They should go to the right shop (or what they think is the right shop) and ask
"Have you got any...?"

The shop assistant asks "How much/many do you want?" and waits for the reply, before
handing over the shopping item card.

When a student has got the shopping item card, they return to their table, and the next
student goes off in search of the next item on the list.

Make sure each group knows that only one student can go shopping and that the students
left waiting at the table are the shop assistants for their shop.

You can make this role-play into a race to see which group can get all the items on their list
first.

When everyone has finished, have the groups swap their materials and repeat the activity.

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