The Price of Free Delivery
B2 reading: The bakery's website advertised free delivery on orders above twenty pounds. Includes vocabulary, six comprehension questions, discussion prompts and full-sentence answers.
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- 4 vocabulary explanations
- Six comprehension questions and two discussion prompts
- Separate full-sentence answer key and teaching notes
Investigate the hidden costs and unequal effects of a bakery's free-delivery offer. The fictional example compares a spending threshold, a flat fee and grouped neighbourhood deliveries rather than advocating one universal pricing rule.
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Before the lesson
Prepare the three pages and review threshold, scattered, flat fee and supported. Keep commercial opinions separate from answers about Saira's decisions.
- Read to test Saira's assumption that increased orders mean new customers. Locate the evidence about regular customers and scattered journeys.
- Answer the questions comparing who bears the cost under each alternative. Explain how lower sales can accompany a larger reduction in costs.
- Use the key to check evidence and reasonable paraphrases. Discuss whether cheaper delivery on limited days would suit different customers.
Support and extension
Support with a customer / cost / convenience chart. Extend by justifying a fictional delivery policy that considers both collection customers and people unable to collect.
Suggested approach. Adjust the pace and number of questions to suit your class.
