How to Explain What You Want While Shopping
ESL Lesson PlansHow to Explain What You Want While Shopping

How to Explain What You Want While Shopping

This ESL lesson plan teaches students how to communicate their preferences and needs when shopping, in a 45-minute group session. Through speaking exercises and vocabulary practice, teens and adults will build confidence in explaining what they want as customers and responding as shop assistants. With engaging dialogue activities, students will practice organizing questions and answers in real-world shopping scenarios.

Skills

  • Can give an example of something in a very simple text using “like” or “for example”.
Online Interactive
Based on CEFR
Fully Customizable
1

Read two different opinions about asking for help when shopping.

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M
Maria
I think it's good to tell the shop assistant what I want. Once, I needed a dress for a party. I told the lady my size and style, and she found the perfect one for me. It made shopping so much easier!
J
James
I don't like asking for help when I shop. I remember once I wanted shoes but felt shy to ask. I ended up leaving without any shoes. I just hate having to talk to strangers.
Your answer:
2

In pairs, decide which opinion you agree with the most and why. Then, answer the following questions.

3

Can you match these words to their definitions?

4

Look at the picture and imagine that you want to buy a red bag.

5

Choose the sentences that can help you explain to the shop assistant what kind of bag you want.

6

You work at a store and a client comes in looking for a bag. Select only the questions you can ask to understand what the client wants.

7

In pairs, organize the sentences and questions into a dialogue between a customer and a shop assistant. Read it out loud to each other.

8

Create a dialogue based on the situation below. One person will act as the customer, and the other as the shop assistant. Practice your dialogue a few times, then switch roles.

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