Beginner Money Shopping Tutor Notes

Beginner Money Shopping Tutor Notes

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Beginner Money Shopping – Tutor Notes

Prices

Task 1: / Can identify dollars and cents in prices
Vocabulary: / dollar/dollars, cents, price, kilo/kilos
Language structure: / What’s the price? The price is ___.

Activity instructions

Revise dollars and cents

Worksheet 1: Dollars and cents

Ask learner to name the notes and coins on the worksheet. (Listen for the ‘s’ on dollars.)

Learner matches the pictures to the symbols.

Identify the correct price

Worksheet 2: Which price is it?

Ask learner to name the items on the worksheet.

Ask learner to read all the prices.

Point to different prices and ask: What’s the price? Learner responds.

Read the script and learner circles the correct price. (Each price can be repeated up to three times.)

Script

The price of the eggs is $5.15.
The price of the television is $297.
The price of the jug is $16.
The price of the watch is $99.
The price of the shirt is $22.
The price of the toaster is $63.80.
The price of the coffee is $3.25.
The price of the milk is $1.45.
The price of the chocolate is $1.90.
The price of the coat is $44.
The price of the socks is $2.
The price of the shoes is $38.80

Once completed ask learner to say the sentences with the correct prices: The price of the shirt is $22. Etc.

Read a shopping catalogue

Worksheet 3: Shopping advertisement

Ask learner to name the fruit and vegetables and say the prices.

Introduce vocabulary: kilo/kilos.

Learner reads the advertisement and answers the questions.

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Types of shops

Task 2: / Can identify different types of shops
Vocabulary: / Post Office, chemist, hairdressers, butcher, newsagent, greengrocer, florist, bank, supermarket
Language structure: / I go to the ___ to buy ___.

Preparation

Prepare flash cards 1.

Activity instructions

Identify the different types of shops

Flash cards 1: Types of shops

Show the picture cards and talk about each shop.

Read the words and learner finds the corresponding picture cards.

Ask questions: What is this shop?

What can you buy in this shop?

Do you go to these shops?

Are any of these shops at your local shopping centre?

Which ones?

Worksheet 4: Which shop?

Learner reads the words at the top of the worksheet.

Learner reads the sentences and writes in the correct shop names.

Ask questions: Where can I buy ___ (a newspaper, some makeup, some apples, meat for a barbecue etc)?

Worksheet 5: Birthday party

Learner reads the words at the top of the worksheet.

Learner reads the stories and writes in the correct shop names.

Write simple sentences

Learner writes simple sentences about the different types of shops: I go to the ___ (post office, butcher etc) to buy ___.

Answer questions about a story

Worksheet 6: Shopping in Vietnam

Learner reads the story and ticks True or False to the statements.

Learner reads the sentences again and changes the false statements to make them true.

Extension activities

Revise items, prices, colours and actions

Authentic shopping catalogues

Cut out a variety of pictures from shopping catalogues with their prices intact.

The number of pictures will depend on the level of your learner. (The aim of the activities is not just learning the names of things but using language in a structure. The repetitive nature of some activities will build confidence in oral expression.)

Below are some teaching ideas for the cut out pictures.

Items and prices

Learner names items.

Learner reads prices.

Learner identifies quantities and abbreviations: kg = kilogram, pkt = packet etc.

Discuss shopping habits: where, what day, who with etc.

Colours

Sort pictures into colour groups.

Write short sentences. Note singular and plural (is, are): Apples are red. This apple is red.

Actions

Sort pictures into action groups, e.g. things that you eat, drink, cook, wash with, clean with etc.

Write short sentences: I eat/don’t eat ___. I drink/don’t drink ___. Etc.

Change the subject to husband/wife, son/daughter: He/She eats/doesn’t eat ___. He/She drinks/doesn’t drink ___.

Use the food pictures to make short sentences: I like ___. He likes ___. She likes ___. They like ___. I don’t like ___. He doesn’t like ___. She doesn’t like ___. They don’t like___.

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