“Shopping” listening and speaking practice

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Situational Dialogues

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Presentation

Hand out the worksheet and ask Ss where the dialogue is taking place. Elicit some keywords connected with shopping.

Tell Ss to complete in pairs first column of the dialogue.

Ss listen to the recording and check their answers.

Ss listen to all the dialogues and complete the gaps. At this point they will have recreated the whole dialogue and should have a correct version of it.

Practice

Notice that dialogues are substitional. It means that the meaning of all items in any given same row is the same – they are just reworded. Therefore, they can be freely mixed within a row in the table. You can:

Practice dialogues in pairs.

Ask every Ss in a class to learn one item by heart and then try to recreate the dialogue orally in a group.

Role play the dialogue. Just place a desk and a chair in the middle of the classroom – that will be the counter.

Experiment and experiment. Be careful though not to overuse it – it quickly bores Ss. Preferably, you could begin a lesson with it as a warmup for a few lessons.