Bargaining at a Flea Market
ESL Lesson PlansBargaining at a Flea Market

Bargaining at a Flea Market

This ESL lesson plan focuses on vocabulary and speaking skills needed for bargaining at a flea market. Aimed at B1-level adult learners, the 60-minute lesson features group activities, including discussion questions, video-based listening exercises, and vocabulary matching tasks. Students will also practice speaking in realistic role-play scenarios, where they negotiate prices and use key phrases for haggling.

Skills

  • Can cope with less routine situations in shops, post offices, banks.
Online Interactive
Based on CEFR
Fully Customizable
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Warm-up

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How do you feel about bargaining when shopping? Do you feel comfortable doing it?
2
Have you ever successfully negotiated a price for something? What was it?
3
How do you decide how much to spend on something you want?
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What strategies do you think are effective when trying to get a better price?
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Have you ever been to a flea market? What can you find there?
2

Watch a conversation where a customer is negotiating the price, and mark the sentences as true or false.

3

Match the words to the definitions.

4

Complete the conversation with the missing words.

5

Role-play the conversations!

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