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GOING SHOPPING

Pre-teach suitable language expressions of request you wish the class to practise (e.g. Could I have some...? I'd like some... Have you got any...?). You should also pre-teach other expressions useful for shopping (e.g. Good morning. Can I help you? Here you are. Thanks. Sorry, I haven't got any. How much is that? etc). When your learners are comfortable with this language, around the room, designate several tables as vegetable stalls in a vegetable market. Invite several volunteers to play stall-holders, and give each stall-holder a set of vegetable pictures. Ask the other learners to each write a shopping list of 5 different vegetables. When they have done this, tell them that they can now go shopping round the vegetable market for the items on their lists. The stall-holders should give the shoppers the vegetables they ask for only if the question is correct and if they (still) have the vegetables.

STAND UP IF...

Arrange the chairs in a large circle, and ask all your learners to sit down. Give each learner a different vegetable picture, and make sure they know the name of their vegetable. Explain that you will call out an instruction (e.g. Stand up if you grow under the ground). If this is true for the vegetable a learner is holding, the learner should stand up. If not, they should remain seated. For example, with the instruction above, the learner with a picture of a potato should stand up, and a learner with a picture of a pea would not move. Other possible instructions include:

• Stand up if people peel you.
• Stand up if you've got brown skin.
• Stand up if people eat you raw.

WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH...?

Elicit from the class the longest list of cooking verbs they can think of, and teach any that are new to them. This list would include to shell, to peel, to mash, to boil, to bake, to cut, to grate. Choose several pictures of the most common vegetables, and ask learners to call out which of the verbs they can use with each vegetable.

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