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Shopping Role Play Instructions

The document outlines a classroom activity where students role-play shopping on a British high street, with half acting as shoppers and the other half as shop owners. It includes preparation steps, such as distributing shopping lists and shop cards, and suggests useful language structures for the role-play. The activity aims to encourage negotiation and conversation, with opportunities for feedback on language use afterwards.

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Shopping Role Play Instructions

The document outlines a classroom activity where students role-play shopping on a British high street, with half acting as shoppers and the other half as shop owners. It includes preparation steps, such as distributing shopping lists and shop cards, and suggests useful language structures for the role-play. The activity aims to encourage negotiation and conversation, with opportunities for feedback on language use afterwards.

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The task: going shopping along a typical British high street.

Half the class have


shopping lists and the other half own a shop.

There are five shops:

 a computer shop

 a newsagent's

 a fruit shop

 a small supermarket

 a language bookshop

The cards are structured so that some discussion and negotiation is necessary
to find most of the things on the learners' shopping lists. In addition, each list
also has a short task typical of normal interaction in the street, for example
asking the time or directions to a bank. At higher levels learners can be
encouraged to elaborate on the conversations and make them more complex.

Preparation
Before the class, copy and cut up the cards on worksheets A and B, so that
there are an equal number of shoppers (worksheet A) and shop owners (B). The
ideal number is five of each, you can duplicate the cards if your class is larger
than 10. If you have less than 10, your learners won't be able to find everything
on their lists, so warn them.
Worksheet A (shoppers)
Worksheet B (shopkeepers)

Procedure

 If you are practising language, review useful structures with the class first,
e.g. 'I'm looking for a…', 'I wonder if you can help me, I…', 'How much is
that?', etc.

 Hand out the cards to the students making sure there is an equal number
of shopping lists and shops.

 Give the learners time to read their cards and ask you about any problem
language. They also need to think about what they are going to say, and
what language they will need. You can group the shoppers together and
shop owners together to do this.

 Point out to the shop owners that they may need to decide how much their
products cost before starting.
 Set up your classroom to represent a street, with each table being a shop
if possible. Ask the learners who own a shop to prepare a card (folded
piece of paper) saying what shop they own.

 Start the role-play. The shoppers need to find everything on their lists and
complete their short task also.

 Monitor the activity for interesting language or for problems, which you can
feedback afterwards. Try not to intervene too much at this stage.

 Keep the role-play going until enough shoppers have completed their
tasks.

 Put the class into groups and ask them to explain how the shopping (and
selling) went, and what problems they had.

 Feedback open class on any interesting language points.

N.B. These cards can be exploited in any way, e.g. as practice after looking at
interactional language or common vocabulary, as a spontaneous speaking
exercise, or as a diagnostic for you to see what your learners know. You can
review the language needed for the task before or after the role-play, depending
on your aims.

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