Let's Go Shopping
This shopping ESL lesson teaches shops, everyday products and simple buyer-and-seller language. Students sort items by shop, ask what classmates want to buy and practise prices with play money. They create a shopping-list booklet and roleplay purchases at mini classroom shops.
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Lesson format
2 × 45 minutes
Level
Beginner
Age group
Ages 6–9
Main focus
Speaking first
What students will learn
Lesson flow
Children pull items from a shopping bag naming the shop they belong to, watch a Let's Go Shopping video answering 'Where do they go?', and drill shop and item flashcards. The second lesson interviews classmates about what they want to buy, sets up mini classroom shops roleplaying customer and shopkeeper with fake coins, and makes a shopping-list booklet to present.
Target language
- • 'Where do you want to go?'
- • 'What do you want to buy?'
- • 'How much is it?'
- • Shop and item vocabulary
Key vocabulary
- buy
- sell
- shop
- price
- cheap
- expensive
- money
- coin
- market
- supermarket
Speaking questions students answer
- • Where do you want to go?
- • What do you want to buy?
- • How much is it?
- • What did they buy?
- • What would you buy?
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Why this lesson works
The lesson follows a clear progression: Guess items and their shop in a bag-grab game, roleplay buyer and shopkeeper at mini shops, make a shopping-list booklet. Teachers can open the materials and start immediately, while students move from supported vocabulary practice to purposeful spoken English.