Talking About Shopping
A one-page B1 conversation worksheet with 20 questions about shopping. Learners exchange personal experiences, explain preferences and discuss everyday choices.
What’s in the worksheet?
- 20 conversation questions
- Personal experiences, preferences and everyday choices
- Pair discussion with reasons and follow-up questions
Discuss shopping habits, prices, online reviews, second-hand products and local businesses through 20 prompts. This is an opinion-and-experience conversation sheet, not a customer-and-assistant role play.
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A simple way to teach it
Before the lesson
Print one page per learner or pair. Review second-hand, special offer and returns if needed. Learners can use ordinary purchases or imagined examples rather than revealing personal spending.
- Begin with online purchases and preferred kinds of shops. Model a preference with a reason and invite one follow-up question.
- Pairs choose prompts about comparing prices, trusting sellers or buying unnecessary items. Ask for an example of what affects a decision.
- Finish with advice for a big purchase or an improvement to shopping. Have partners explain which suggestion would be most useful and why.
Support and extension
For support, use I compare… and I would check… as starters. For an extension, compare buying fewer expensive things with more cheap things in question 16. There is no fixed answer key; evaluate the explanation rather than endorsing a particular spending habit.
Suggested approach. Adjust the pace and number of questions to suit your class.
