Shopping: cost; prices; special offers; shopping centre; online shopping; pocket money; window shopping;
Bella and Tom meet their friend Kelly at the coffee shop. They notice her new red shoes and are surprised that Kelly paid a lot for them. They talk about their shopping habits. What do they like to do when they go shopping? Do they prefer online shopping or going to stores? Find out more about their shopping habits!
To check students’ understanding of the video, sensitise them to the use of subject questions and the use and order of adjectives through comprehension questions, and further develop their speaking skills by encouraging comprehensive and extended answers to comprehension questions.
Click here to start: Activity 1a
Click here to start: Activity 1b
There are 2 activities focussing on:
Both activities can be run individually, in small groups or as a whole class.
📍Encourage students to provide full, not one-word, answers.
📍Before students start the activity, get them to remember as much as they can about the three items the characters in the video talked about (shoes, bracelet, smart watch). In pairs, students answer the three questions:
Get students to complete Task 1b and check their ideas.
Activity 2a Language presentation (mini-activity)
To introduce the three examples of the target language presented in the video (order of adjectives), and elicit the order of adjectives.
Activities 2b & 2c Language practice
To extend students’ vocabulary (shopping/fashion adjectives), and practise order of adjectives in the context of fashion & shopping.
Click the link: Activity 2a
Click the link: Activity 2b
Click the link: Activity 2c
Click the link: Activity 2d
Activities 2a, 2b and 2c can be skipped. You can go straight to task 2d to practise order of adjectives.
Click the link: Activity 2a
Click the link: Activity 2b
This activity introduces more adjectives relating to fashion. Students will have further opportunity to use this language in Activities 2c & 4.
Click the link: Activity 2c
This activity helps students practise the order of adjectives and fashion adjectives introduced in Activity 2b.
📍 Point it out to students or elicit that adjectives describe nouns, so articles need to be used before adjectives + noun:
a lovely little bracelet
Click the link: Activity 2d
This is a follow up task to practise the target language (order of adjectives).
📍Pdf worksheets can be downloaded for all three activities for students’ reference and/or to set as homework for students to further review/practise the target language.
Download Activity 2a worksheet here
Download Activity 2b worksheet here
Download Activity 2c worksheet here
To help students in practicing the pronunciation of key words from the lexical set related to shopping, providing further practice and drilling of the target language from the video, sensitising students to word stress in compound adjectives and compound nouns, as well as familiarizing them with weak forms in the phrase “Do you…?“.
Watch the video and repeat
Click the link: Activity 3
Play the video and drill the target language.
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To help students in reviewing and practicing vocabulary learned in Activity 2b; practise the order of adjectives, and make connections between the target language and real life via describing celebrities and influencers popular among young people
To scaffold this activity, ensure pairs/small groups can see a copy of the word cloud that reviews adjectives learnt in the previous activities. Students should be encouraged to use these adjectives when describing people in this activity. However, students are not limited to the list of adjectives on the worksheet- they are free to use any adjectives they like.
Step 3
📍 You can personalise the activity and the images better using: www.classtools.net/reveal/
You know your students and you know what images would work better for them.
📍Instructions for how to use classtools.net slow image reveal tool:
You can upload images in real time. To add more fun and relevance, let students/groups choose images they want for other groups to guess/describe.
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To help students in integrating speaking skills and life competences, including collaboration, teamwork, negotiation and critical thinking, as well as practising and personalising the target language in the context of designing their own clothing shop window, ultimately aiming to develop their presentation skills.
1. Find two or three pictures of clothing shop windows to show the class.
📍You can use slow image reveal tool to turn this stage of the lesson into a fun activity.
2. Show the class two or three images of a clothing store window. e.g.
3. Explain that their task will be to design a window for their own clothing shop.
📍Students can draw or use Canva to complete the activity. Click here to download Bost Step-by-Step Guide How to Use Canva
4. To complete the activity, students have to:
📍 Use authentic clothing shop websites to help students generate more language they can use in their presentations, e.g https://www.next.co.uk/
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The BOOST Project (Building Open Online Series for Teaching) aims to improve the digital readiness of teachers of English as a foreign language to students aged 8 -14 by providing an open-access series of engaging native-speaker content videos linked with a Resource Pack of ready-made activities to stimulate production of the language in online learning.
