Shopping Vocabulary: Gap-Fill
Build confidence with 15 useful shopping words and phrases. Complete contextual gap-fill sentences, then discuss the topic with a partner. Includes a full-sentence answer key.
What’s in the worksheet?
- 15-word vocabulary bank
- 15 contextual gap-fill sentences
- Three partner-discussion questions
- Full-sentence answer key on page 2
Practise 15 B1 shopping words in a once-only gap-fill, then discuss shopping preferences, value and advertising. The answer page gives the intended choices in complete sentences.
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A simple way to teach it
Before the lesson
Review receipt, refund and exchange as different terms, and afford versus budget. Retain page 2 for checking. Use fictional purchases rather than asking learners for financial details.
- Read the bank and attempt the gaps, using the surrounding sentence to identify the action or object needed.
- Compare and check the key. Contrast receiving a discount, finding a bargain and reading a customer review.
- Use the three discussion prompts to explain a preference or purchase decision. Encourage a follow-up about the reason for a choice.
Support and extension
For support, group money, people and shopping actions. For an extension, write a brief review of an invented product using selected words. Gap answers follow the bank; opinions vary. Guarantee and refund are vocabulary examples here, not statements of a shop's actual policy or a country's consumer rights.
Suggested approach. Adjust the pace and number of questions to suit your class.
