Shopping #1

Lesson plan. 

Duration: 60 min.

Course book: Go Getter 3rd, SB  P. 24, Audio 38, 39, 40

Topic: Shopping 

Aim: Lexic

Stage: Warm up

Snow ball game:

In my shopping bag there is a carton of cream.

In my shopping bag there is a carton of cream and a can of corn.

In my shopping bag there isa carton of cream, a can of corn and a jar of jam. 

(I used beautiful alliteration here! Can you make the list longer by adding up one item at a time and starting over each time?)

Stage: Lead-in

Word map for shopping:

• Shopping bag, basket, list, trolley, center…

• To do shopping, to go shopping

• Who usually does shopping in your family?

What is shopping?

Tasya believed shopping was about buying some clothes. I explained that we do everyday shopping when we want to bring some milk and bread home.

Stage: Pre-listening - pics

Tasya performed this task amazingly! She said: There must be something with her bag, that made her worry, because she frowned her face. And on the second picture I can see the boys are surprized. There must be something wrong with the delivery, it is not what they had expected.

Listening.

The audio story about Harry and George was funny. 

Stage: post-listening ex.2, reading the prices, matching

Lexic: 

Remember the opposites:

Size: (Big/small) 

Weight: (light/heavy)

Price: (cheap/expensive)

Design: (nice/beautiful/ugly)

I've noticed how hard she gets through this type of task: words don't come easy. She can not say what's the opposite to 'hard'. It took a while till she said 'easy', and I accepted that. But she tried to think of another meaning of 'hard' (as hard as stone) and then she could not come up with any ideas at all, till I said: "is it the word 'soft' that you are trying to call to mind?"

It keeps me thinking - was the sask tiresome? How can she fail with this "Lower Order Thinking Skills" and perform brilliantly with "Higher Order Thinking Skills" anyway?

Comparatives: 

Big-bigger-the biggest

Bad-worse-the worst

Expensive-more expesive-the most expensive

I reminded her the episode from "Frozen" where two sisters see each other for the first time on the ceremony of coronation.

Elsa: You're beautiful!

Anna: You're beautifullER. Oh, no! sorry, I didn't mean 'FOOLER' but 'more beautiful'.

Tasya knew it quite well, the comparatives for short and long words okay, still I believe it was worth paying attention to. Done ✔

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But Tasya fell off her chair because she could not sit still without putting her feet above her head and prop them against the wall. She pushed the wall too hard so it made her chair topple over LOL :D

 Shall I set the rules for her to remember how to sit, how to behave and show respect - or probably add some TPR activities...

However, we went on with the task and listened to the second part of the audio (it made her relax a bit and forget the chair accident)

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The boys ordered a toy bag by mistake. 

Inferred meaning:

Granny: Do you like my new bag?

Boys: Yes, it's a good, big bag.

New listening episode: 

https://www.esl-lab.com/easy/shopping-centers/

The story is so sweet! It is about a 6-7 year old girl trying to buy a present for her daddy using some money from her piggy bank.

Target words: wallet, purse, piggy bank

Did you like the dialogue?

What title would you give to it?

Did you hear the jingling coins? What does it say? (money from a piggy bank) isn't it sweet?

She has been collecting it for days and days by helping her mom around the house.

What would you do if you were a shop assistant?

Stage: Post-listening

Do the quiz (on the same webpage)

Done ✔

Tasya learned to read the prices, numerals like $34.99

Target phrase: Let's say it went on sale.

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60 min Lesson is over.

Tasya gets the "Hometask" which she goes on doing immediately ♥ My girl!

Production Task: Make a dialogue.

She did! A cartoon! Good job! I made a video of her reading it. Watch here