Buying And Selling Classroom Activities

Shopping Role-Plays, ESL Activities, Worksheets and Games

Pre-intermediate (A2)
Intermediate (B1)
Upper-intermediate (B2)

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ESL Shoe Shopping Role-Play - Speaking Activity: Ordering a Dialogue, Creating and Presenting a Dialogue, Controlled and Freer Practise - Pair Work - Pre-intermediate (A2) - 30 minutes

In this fun shoe store role-play activity, students put a shoe shop conversation in lodge and function-play a shoe shopping dialogue. In pairs, one student takes on the role of the shop banana and the other is the client. Students then take it in turns to read each sentence to their partner and number the sentences in order. When the pairs take finished, they check the correct order and do the dialogue with their partner. After that, pairs create a new shoe shopping dialogue of their own which they then role-play in front of the class.

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ESL Shopping Office-Play - Speaking Activity: Asking and Answering Questions, Communicative Practise - Group Work - Pre-intermediate (A2) - 25 minutes

In this shopping office-play, students take on the roles of shop administration and customers and practice buying and selling items in a shop. Half the students are shop assistants and the other half are customers. The customers get around to each shop and endeavour to buy the items on their shopping list. When a customer makes a purchase, they write down the cost on their shopping list adjacent to the particular. Subsequently a customer has completed their shopping list, they write down the total price of all the items and show y'all their answer. If at that place is a mistake, the customer goes back to the shops and confirms the prices. When anybody has finished, the students bandy roles and echo the action, and so everyone has a chance to do being the shop banana and client.

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Shopping Around

ESL Store Function-Play Game - Speaking: Communicative Practice - Grouping Work - Pre-intermediate (A2) - thirty minutes

In this free shopping role-play game, students human action as customers and shop assistants, and do buying and selling items in a shop. In groups, students stand a card upwards on their table to evidence the proper name of their shop, eastward.thousand. baker. The aim of the action is to be the offset group to buy all the items on their shopping list. To exercise this, each group sends out one pupil (the client) from their group to buy the showtime detail on their shopping list. The students left waiting at the tabular array take information technology in turns to exist the shop assistant for their shop. The customer then goes to what they think is the right shop and begins a conversation with the shop banana, eastward.g. 'Hi, have you got...?' If the shop assistant has the particular, they sell it to the customer and mitt over a shopping item picture card. If the shop assistant doesn't accept the particular, the customer goes and finds the right shop. When the client has the particular, they return to their grouping and the second customer goes off in search of the next item on the list. The first group to purchase all the items on their shopping list wins.

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Shopping Dominoes

ESL Clothes Shopping Game - Vocabulary: Matching - Group Work - Pre-intermediate (A2) - 20 minutes

In this clothes store dialogue game, students build a clothes shop conversation between a shop assistant and customer by matching judgement halves together. The students look for the Hello, can I... domino and place it face up on the tabular array. The get-go actor and then puts down one of their dominoes on either side of the domino on the tabular array, making sure that the sentence halves go together to course a judgement or question by a store banana or client, e.yard. 'Hello, can I help you lot?' The other players and so take it in turns to match their dominoes in the same style by putting them downwards at either end of the domino chain. The kickoff player to get rid of all their dominoes wins the game. The remaining players keep putting downwardly their dominoes until all the dominoes take been placed correctly to form a apparel shop conversation.

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Shopping Role-Plays

ESL Shopping Role-Plays - Speaking Activity: Asking and Answering Questions, Communicative Practice - Pair Work - Pre-intermediate (A2) - 25 minutes

In these engaging shopping role-plays, students practice shopping linguistic communication in a newsagent'southward and in a clothes shop. One pupil takes on the role of a newsagent store assistant and the other is a customer. The information on the shop assistant's card shows the items they have for sale and the cost of each particular. If they don't accept what the customer wants, they try to sell them something else. The shopping listing shows details of the preferred items the customers desire to purchase and their total upkeep. Some shopping items may be too expensive to buy or the shop assistant may not have what they want. If that'south the instance, the customers buy a similar or cheaper detail. When the students have completed the role-play, they move on to the second role-play that focuses on clothes shopping. The students bandy roles so the store banana now becomes the customer and the client becomes the shop banana. The roles are the same equally before, but this time the customer has a $200 gift voucher which they can't become over budget on. Finally, students present their part-plays to the grade.

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