TESL 0120
Assignment 4
Assignment 4
TOPIC:
- Shopping
CONTEXT:
- This lesson caters to adult immigrants who have recently moved to Winnipeg with an upper beginner level of English.
FOCUS:
- Students will learn to ask for and understand the price while shopping. This lesson will focus on task-based, transactional communication, making use of both fluency and accuracy speech.
STRATEGIES:
- Speaking:
· Use recordings of the students role-play to help students reflect on their performance and improve on their pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary usage.
- Listening:
· Students will listen to a recording and a video to listen to specific information and learn about ask questions and understand prices while shopping, also, the correct pronunciation of the numbers.
MATERIALS:
- Activity 1 question sheet printouts
- Activity 2 dialogue worksheet
- Activity 3 survey worksheet
- Whiteboard Marker
ACTIVITY SEQUENCE:
Activating (30 minutes)
- Begin the lesson by with a conversation about shopping. Find out how your students shopped in their home country. Did they have stores, or did they go to an open-air market? Did they have a chain or department stores like Wal-Mart?
- Next, get students to work in groups of three or four and brainstorm vocabulary that they would use when talking about shopping and comparing prices.
- After 5 minutes or so, ask each group to share at least three words they came up with and write these on the board. Introduce and review additional vocabulary that hasn’t been mentioned.
- Then, introduce phrases that the students can use by combining the words they gave. (ex: “the price of this shirt is reasonable”). Invite students to come up with a few phrases and write them on the board.
Some examples of shopping vocabulary include:
· Words that describe the items they want to purchase
· Where can I find . . .?
· I'm looking for . . .?
· Do you have . . .?
· How much does it cost?
· Thank you. Have a nice day.
Acquiring (60 minutes)
Activity 1 (listening):
Goal: Students will learn to understand prices in dollars and cents. They will also learn the pronunciation of the numbers.
- Pass out the question sheet to the learners and play an audio recording from this link: https://www.esl-lab.com/eslbasic/shopping-prices-1.htm. A Copy of the answer key will also be found here. There will be a series of ten questions and every question has 3 options to choose from. Speaker will say a price and learners have to mark the correct option.
- Give the students a minute to have a look at the questions.
- After playing the audio recording once, ask the students to compare their answers.
- Play the audio again and ask them to confirm their answers.
Corrective Feedback:
- If a student gives the wrong answer, use gentle correction and ask them to listen to the audio when it is played the second time.
- Explain why the answer is wrong by putting the recording on pause immediately.
Assessment Method:
- Use formative assessment to check students’ understanding of pronunciation and dollars and cents having them mark the correct amount.
Activity 2 (Speaking and Listening):
- Pass out the dialogue worksheets to the students and divide them into pairs. The dialogue worksheet will have dialogues written for the customer and shop assistant.
- Explain to the class that they will practice these dialogues in pairs. Tell them that while one person will say the dialogues for a shop assistant, the other one will respond with customer dialogues. Once finished, Students will then switch roles and repeat the activity.
- Tell your students to take a look at the worksheet before starting the activity, practice pronunciation and ask vocabulary they are not aware of.
- Ask students to use expressions understanding the context of the dialogue.
Corrective Feedback:
- During this activity, while the students are performing dialogues, note down the mistakes they are making regarding pronunciation, expressions, and intonation and offer a correction.
Assessment Method:
- Speaking: check students understanding of expressions, vocabulary, and vocabulary related by observing them while they say dialogues.
Activity 3 (speaking and listening):
- Start the activity by showing this video “Let's go shopping” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-1tfWzHgOA&feature=related to the students.
- Teach the students how to ask questions while shopping. This can include questions such as how much does this cost? Do you have it in red color?
- Ask the students to walk around the class and talk to other class members asking them questions about one clothes item they are wearing. Use the questions below:
- Ask them to fill the following information on the survey sheet.
· Name
· Item
· Shop
· Price
· Date of purchase
· Payment method
· Satisfied?
Corrective Feedback:
- During this activity, walk around the classroom and check in on the students to see if they are having any difficulty with the task. Take note of any speech errors they may be making. Near the end of the activity, offer a correction on the common errors that you noted.
Assessment Method:
- Listening: check students’ understanding of expressions and vocabulary related to shopping by looking at their ability to comprehend the question and responding appropriately.
- Speaking: check students understanding of interrogatives, expressions, and vocabulary related to shopping by looking at their ability to ask questions and respond to the questions.
Applying (40 minutes)
Activity 4 (Speaking):
Goal: The goal of the activity is to practice the vocabulary they have learned and learn to ask questions while shopping.
- In this shopping role-play activity, the students take on the roles of shop assistants and customers and practice buying and selling items in a clothes shop.
- Divide the students into pairs, one student will play the role of the shop assistant and other will play the role of the customer.
- Write down the list of the items on the board and ask the students to select one item and develop a conversation around it.
- The customer needs to ask questions about the item and shop assistant needs to answer the questions, ask questions about the preference of the customer and provide additional information about the item. The questions can be about size, color, and quality and price etcetera.
- Once the activity is finished, the students swap roles and repeat the activity but with a different item, so everyone has a chance to practice being the shop assistant and customer.
Corrective Feedback:
- Observe the pair while they are performing role-play. If students are struggling to come up with dialogue, feel free to offer a few suggestions to help get their imaginations active. Continue to take note of any speech errors the students are making, and offer feedback after they are finished.
- Ask the other students to observe them closely and note down the errors they are making for an active participation and making sure everyone is paying attention.
Assessment Method:
- Check Students’ ability to incorporate target vocabulary and expressions into a role-play skit. These performances can be recorded and graded at a later time. Then, feel free to let each student have a copy of these recordings to use as a self-assessment resource in the future.
WRAP-UP:
- Use this time to bring up a few common speech errors that you noticed in the class and explain to the students how to correct them. Have the students write down these points in their notebooks for future reference.
- Conclude the lesson by discussing with the students the importance of helping others who are lost.
RESOURCES:
Randall, D. (2017). Shopping and Prices. Retrieved from:
Video: Lets’ go shopping (English Lesson). Retrieved from:
Activity 1 Question Sheet
Listen to the recording and then, choose the price you hear.
1.
A. $2.15
B. $2.05
C. $2.50
2.
A. $7.40
B. $7.14
C. $7.44
3.
A. $22.18
B. $22.12
C. $ 22.80
4.
A. $15.13
B. $15.33
C. $15.30
5.
A. $40.16
B. $46.16
C. $41.60
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6.
A. $84.90
B. $89.40
C. $88.19
7.
A. $60.90
B. $60.19
C. $60.09
8.
A. $113.70
B. $130.17
C. $131.07
9.
A. $270.50
B. $217.50
C. $270.15
10.
A. $580.52
B. $508.25
C. $518.05
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Activity 2 Dialogue worksheet
Dialogue 1
A: Pardon me. Could you help me?
B: Of course. How can I help you? A: I am looking for a sweater. B: What size do you wear? A: Medium, I think. B: Here. How do you like this one? A: It's pretty. Can I try it on? B: You can try it on in the fitting room over there. |
Dialogue 2
A: Excuse me. Can you help me?
B: Certainly. What can I do for you?
A: I need to purchase a sweater.
B: What is your size?
A: Medium should be fine.
B: Is this one okay?
A: Can I try it on somewhere?
B: The fitting room is in the left corner
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Dialogue 3
A: May I ask you a question?
B: Yes. How can I assist you? A: I want to buy a sweater. B: What size? A: I think a medium should fit me. B: How about this one? A: The color is nice. Do you have a dressing room? B: There's a fitting room right over there |
Dialogue 4
A: Do you have a second?
B: Sure. What do you need? A: I'm here to buy a sweater. B: What size do you wear? A: I usually wear medium. B: What do you think about this one? A: It's nice. Where is your fitting room? B: The dressing room is in that corner. |
Dialogue 5
A: Excuse me. Could you help me with something?
B: I'll certainly try. A: I'm looking for a nice sweater. B: What size do you wear in a sweater? A: Medium is my size for shirts and sweaters. B: Here's a medium. What do you think? A: I like it. Where can I try it on? B: We have a large fitting room in that corner. |
ACTIVITY 3 SURVEY WORKSHEET
Name
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Item
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Shop
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Price
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Date of purchase
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Payment method
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Satisfied?
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