A2 Level Basic 10 – Active Speaking Task

Parallel Situations and Characters

Situation 1: In a clothing store

Student A: You’re the sales assistant
Student B: You’re the client
Student C: You’re the client’s friend and Student E’s sibling

Situation 2: In an electronics store

Student D: You’re the sales assistant
Student E: You’re the client and Student C’s sibling

Props (Utilería): clothes of different sizes and colors, cellphones

Grammar: Present Simple, Present Continuous, comparative and superlative adjectives
Vocabulary: Clothes, electronic items, technology, places for shopping
Expressions: Learning to shop for clothes, asking for help, checking instructions

Situation 1:
1) You three are in a clothing store
2) Student B wants to renew his/her outfit since he/she has a job interview
3) Student C helps Student B to choose what to buy, but you, Student C, have a very eclectic
style and Student B doesn’t seem to agree with you all the time
4) Student A overhears Students B and C’s conversation and jumps into it to also give
suggestions about what would be more suitable for a job interview since he/she is the sales
assistant and a fashionista as well
5) While this is happening, Student C gets a phone call from his/her sibling who is shopping for a
cellphone in an electronics store.

Situation 2:
1) You two are in an electronics store
2) Student D is interested in buying a new cellphone and is asking Student E about three or four
different kinds of cellphones.
3) After some consideration, Student E call his/her sibling to know his/her opinion
4) Student C answers the call and responds to Student E’s questions.
5) Student E decides on a cellphone, pays for it and thanks his/her sibling for the advice

Situation 1:
6) After finishing answering Student E’s call, Student C goes back to Student B.
7) Student B accepts the sales assistant’s ideas about what to buy, pays for the clothes he/she
was recommended, and leaves the store with Student C.

Elaborated by Mr. Jorge Torres

Idiomas Católica – San Miguel Branch
June 2019