Receptive Skills - Listening/Reading

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 2

Grocery Shopping

Lesson Schedule:

- Talk together about grocery shopping

- Watch a video on our reading strategy

- Read a short story together and complete a worksheet 

- Practice what we have learned with a fun role play!

- Discussion on what we have learned

Grocery Shopping

Lesson Goals:

At the end of the lesson, we will be able to talk in a grocery store and ask for help, using the vocabulary we learn from today's lesson.

National Learning Goals: 

13. Pupils learn to use strategies to acquire information from spoken and

written English texts.

16: Pupils learn to have standard conversations in English in order to ask

for help to buy something or get information.

Every Saturday, Max goes to the grocery store. He has a shopping list with items of food and beverages that he will need to purchase. Once Max gets to the store, he spends thirty minutes shopping for the items on his list. In the fruit and vegetable section, he finds the apples, potatoes, eggplants and paprika. In aisle three he finds instant coffee, a bag of sugar, and a packet of biscuits. There are a few items on the list that Max cannot find, so he asks the store assistant for help.

Max: ‘Excuse me. Where can I find the milk?’

Store assistant: ‘Milk can be found in the refrigerator shelves.’

Max: ‘I also need help finding toothpaste.’

Store assistant: ‘Toiletries are in aisle ten.’

Max: ‘Thank you very much.’

Max finds every item on his shopping list. He goes to the cash register and pays for all of his items. He is very happy that his trip to the grocery store was a success.

Shopping at the Grocery Store

Max is at the dentist.

1. True
2. False

Max spends thirty minutes shopping for the items on his list.

1. True
2. False

Max finds apples, potatoes, eggplants and paprika.

1. True
2. False

Max does not need any help finding milk and toothpaste.

1. True
2. False

Max is able to find every item on his shopping list.

1. True
2. False

Open Question

Talk with your desk buddy:

Your parents give you 30 Euros to spend at the grocery store. What will you buy?

Role Play Activity Guide

Complete this activity with your desk buddy. One of you will be the customer and the other will be the store assistant. 

The customer will ask for help finding their groceries and the store assistant will do their best to help the customer.

Try to use as many words from the vocabulary list as you can.

Once you have decided on your role, you may begin!

Vocabulary from the Story

Shopping list - a written note of items you need to buy.

Beverages - a drink that is not water.

Purchase - to buy something.

Eggplants - a type of vegetable.

Aisle - the walking area between shelves or benches.

Instant - to get something or do something straight away.

Store assistant - someone who works at the grocery store.

Found - to see something you were looking for.

Refrigerator shelves - the area in a grocery store that stores milk.

Toiletries - items used to take care of your body.

Cash register - the place where a shop worker helps you pay for your groceries.

Success - to achieve your goal.