Mecatronica

Shopping at the minimarket
Submitted by joanna_adkin on 17 February, 2010 - 14:08
This speaking activity reviews uncountable and countable nouns (food), some/any and prices and is suitable for pre-intermediate 9 -11 year olds. Students draw their own shop and contents and write lists of things they want to buy. The teacher elicits a dialogue and then students mingle to go shopping at the shops to try to buy everything on their list.
The activity also contains an element of mathematics as students add up how much they spend at the shops. The activity could be adapted for different kinds of shops (e.g. clothes).
To set up the activity requires quite a lot of preparation. However, this activity can be repeated over future lessons as a review (using new shopping lists) and develops a number of skills (CLIL) and creates an appropriate context for students to communicate at this age.
Materials
Shopping at the minimarket student worksheet (1 per student)
Colouring pencils
Procedure
* Draw a big diagram of the shop on the board or large piece of paper (see outline on students worksheet) but don’t tell students what it is yet. Draw yourself in the shop. Draw a table and a cash till on it. Ask the following questions. * Who is this? (you) * What’s this (a cash till) * So where am I? (in a shop) * What is my job? (shop assistant) * Whose shop is it? (mine). * What does the shop sell ? (food) * Can you think of a name for my shop? (e.g. Jo’s mini-market) * Write the name of the shop in the top box. * Draw some shelves and tables. Draw some apples on a table and elicit what is in the shop (e.g. There are some apples). Elicit from the students what is in the shop (e.g. there are some pears, there is some milk etc) and draw them in the shop until the shop is full. However, leave a space so that you have room to draw an extra person – see stage 6). * (Optional activity: Give students 2 minutes to memorise what is in the shop.