Kinds of Shops and a Theatre Play

Monday 12^th May

Hi everybody! How’s it going?

What did we do in our last class?

First, we started talking about The Eurovision Contest because Almudena is a great fan of it!.

After that, we learnt the names of different kinds of shops.

Chemist’s – greengrocer’s- fishmonger’s – baker’s – florist – confectionery – stationery – butcher’s – newsagent’s – hairdresser’s – shoe shop – book shop – clothes shop and of course, supermarket.

·                What can you buy at a greengrocer’s?

·                Where can you buy medicine?

·                What can you buy at the fishmonger’s?

·                Where can you buy lamb chops and sausages?

We continued practising shopping dialogues:

C: Good morning!

S: Morning! Can I help you?

C: Yes, please. Can I have a kilo of bananas?

S: yes, here you are. Anything else?

C: Yes. I’d like some tomatoes.

S: How many would you like?

C: A kilo, please.

S: Anything else?

C: No, thank you. How much is it?

S: the bananas are £2.50, the tomatoes are £1.99; so, that’s £4.49           

C: Here you are.

S: Your change, £0.51.Thank you.

C: Bye.

Then, we learnt the differences among several shopping places.

                   

·         Supermarket: is a place where you can buy different products: food, cleaning products, toiletries etc.

·         Street market: is a place where you can buy food and clothes. It’s in the street and the sellers use stalls to sell their products.

·         High street shops: different types of shops in the main street of towns or cities.

·         Department store: a big shop that has different floors (departments). They sell different products on each floor. E.g. “El Corte Inglés” “Harrods”etc.

·         Shopping centre (shopping mall – in American English): it’s a big place with lots of different shops inside. E.g. “Plaza Norte”, “Parquesur”

And we started reading the play we are going to perform for the end of the course!

Its title is “Island for Sale” We selected the characters. Our casting is this:

Leaping Larry    Manuel

Duncan                Nacho

Roxanne              Almudena

Jean                      Andrea

Storyteller           María

Homework: write the name of six shops and several items you can buy there. For example:

·           “Myriam’s” is a hairdresser’s or a hair salon. They wash, cut or dye your hair in here.

·           “Turkeys and chickens” is a butcher’s. You can buy meat, sausages, lamb chops and steaks in here etc.

… and read the play once.

GAME 5

Player 1	7
Player 2	11
Player 3	12
Player 4	11
Player 5	6

Have a look at this links.

Shopping

How much is / are?

Kinds of Shops

And … that’s all folks!