At the Shop!

Objective & content

This activity sheet is about shopping. A shop board, The Corner Shop, shows eight things, each with a picture and a price tag but no name: an apple (40p), a banana (30p), an orange (50p), a juice (80p), a chocolate (90p), an ice cream (£1), a sandwich (£2) and a ball (£3). Pupils solve riddles with the board, complete a shop dialogue and play shops with a friend. By the end, pupils name food and toy words, read prices and say Can I have a sandwich, please? How much is it? It's £2.

Pedagogical guide

Every price on the board is different, so the price always settles the answer. Task 1 is the board: look at it together and say the prices aloud ("forty p", "two pounds"); there is nothing to write, and there are no names under the pictures. Task 2 gives six riddles with two clues each ("It's yellow. It's 30p.") and a word box with the eight words. Pupils read both clues, find the thing on the board and complete "It's a ..." or "It's an ...": the article is already printed. The answers are banana, apple, ice cream, sandwich, ball and orange. The juice is orange too, but it is 80p, so the price settles riddle 6; in the black and white copy, the price alone is always enough. Two words in the box are never used: juice and chocolate. Task 3 is a dialogue between a shopkeeper and a girl with six gaps and a box of six words, each used once: help, have, much, It's, Here, Thank. Then pupils play shops in pairs with the same dialogue: the shopkeeper uses the board for the prices. Page 2 gives the answer key and the teacher notes.

Suggested procedure

1. (5 min) Put price tags on a few classroom things and ask: "How much is the pencil?"
2. (5 min) Task 1: look at the shop together and say the eight prices ("forty p", "two pounds").
3. (10 min) Task 2: pupils read each riddle, find the thing on the board and write the word; check together.
4. (5 min) Task 3: pupils complete the dialogue with the words in the box; read it aloud in two voices.
5. (10 min) In pairs, pupils play shops with the dialogue: the shopkeeper uses the board, the customer chooses a thing.

Adaptations

[S] Say the eight words with the pictures first, pointing at the board.

[A] Pupils write a riddle for a partner: "It's green. It's ..."

Materials & prerequisites

One copy per pupil of page 1, in colour or black and white. Pupils need only a pencil. Page 2 is the answer key with teacher notes: keep it. A few classroom things with paper price tags for the warm-up. Pupils should know the numbers up to ninety for the prices and the colours yellow, red and orange; the eight words are in the word box of task 2.