CHAPTER 12

SHOPPING
Elicitation
Look at the illustration before studying the dialogues below and then try to guess what the
people are talking about.

Well, in this chapter, you will study shopping skill. You will practice using expressions asking and
telling the sections in a supermarket, the items, the price, bargaining and calculating the total
items and price.

General Instructional Objective

After completing this lesson, students should be able to use the language expressions used in
shopping activities fluently and accurately both in spoken and written communication

Specific Instructional Objective:

• Ask the sections in a supermarket

 • Ask and tell the items
• Ask and tell the price
• Ask for bargain
• Calculate the total item and price

Dialogue 1.

Mrs. Carol goes shopping in the supermarket where Mrs. Kyle always buys goods. It’s the first
time Mrs. Carol has come to this supermarket. She wants to buy beef and chicken. She does not
know where they are. So she asks a shop assistant, Olda.

Mrs. Carol : Excuse me. Do you know where the meat section is?

Olda : Yes Madam. It’s over there at the back next to the produce. This way,
Madam

Mrs. Carol : Thank you.

Olda : Here you are, Madam.

Mrs. Carol : I want a kg of beef and a kg a chicken. How much does a kg of beef cost?

Olda : A kg beef costs Rp. 300,- and Rp. 2.500,- for chicken.

Mrs. Carol : I’ll have a kg of each please.

Questions

1. List Mrs. Carol’s shopping

2. Write down how much money Mrs. Carol spent.

Dialogue 2.

Endang works in a big supermarket. There are a lot of foreigners shopping in the supermarket.
One of them is Mrs. Kyle who knows Endang well. Mrs. Kyle now is at the counter paying her
bill.
Endang : Hello, Mrs. Kyle. How are you?

Mrs. Kyle : I am well. Thanks

Endang : Rp. 15.000,- Rp. 20.000,- Rp. 7.500,- Rp. 25.000,- Rp. 13.500,- and 10% tax.
That’s Rp. 73.000,-

Mrs. Kyle : Here two 50 thousands notes.

Endang : Rp. 73.000,- out of Rp. 100.000,- s0 that’s Rp. 27.000,- Here’s the change,
Mrs. Kyle.

Mrs. Kyle : Thanks.

Questions

1. How much money did Mrs. Kyle spend on her shopping?

2. How much money did Mrs. Kyle give to ending?
In the dialogues above, Endang uses arithmetic symbols in English. Learn the arithmetic
symbols below so that you can also use them easily.

+ = plus, add

= = equals, makes, is equal to

X = times, multiplied by

- = minus, less, out of, subtracts

: = divided by

Study the examples

15 + 10 = 25 you read : fifteen plus ten is twenty five

20 x 5 = 100 you read : twenty times five equals one hundred

75 - 70 = 5 you read : seventy five minus seventy is five

60: 2 = 30 you read : sixty divided by two is thirt

When you want to find out where items are you can use the following expressions:

• Do you know where the meat section is?

• Do you know where the butcher is?

To answer the questions, you can say:

• It’s at the back

• It’s in the middle
• It’s on the right/left
• It’s next to the produce
• It’s at the front

To ask the price, you can say:

• How much is a kg of tomato

• What’s the price of a kg of tomato

To tell the price, you can say:

• It is Rp 6.000,-
• 1 kg of tomato is Rp 6.000,-

To ask for bargain, you can say:

• Any bargain
• Can you lower the price
• Could you reduce the price

To calculate the total price, you can say:

• Rp15.000,- + Rp10.000,- = Rp 25.000,- (fifteen thousand plus ten thousand is twenty

five thousand)
• Rp 200 x 5 = Rp 1000 ( two hundred times five equals one thousand)
• Rp 750 – Rp 50 = 700 (seven hundred and fifty minus fifty is seven hundred)
Practice 1

Write down the arithmetic symbols below in letters

For example: 125 + 50 + 25 = 200 = one hundred and twenty five adds fifty plus twenty five
equals two hundred.

1. 500 + 350 + 150 =

2. 10% 15.000 =
3. 15 x 4 + 50.000 =
4. 2.050 : 2 =
5. 55.000 - 350 =
Practice 2

In some markets in Indonesia, it’s common to bargain. Study the example:

Comb Rp. 10.000,- - Rp. 7.500,-

Customer : What does this comb cost

Assistant : It’s Rp. 10.000,- sir

Customer : That’s too expensive. How about Rp. 5.000,-

Assistant : No I can’t, but I can let you have it for Rp. 7.500,-

Customer : All right. I’ll take it. Thank you

Take turn asking and bargaining prices using the prompts below.

Bargain: Response:

How about Rp………………….? I can let you have …………………………

Can you lower …………………? My lowest price is …………………………

Study the example:

A. : It’s Rp. 35.000,-

B. : How about Rp. 20.000,-?

A. : I can let you have Rp. 25.000,-

B. : I’ll take it.

B. : How about Rp. 20.000,-?

A. : I can let you have Rp. 25.000,-

Now you turn:

1. Rp. 50.000,-
2. Rp. 435.000,-
3. Rp. 155.000,-
4. Rp. 255.000,-
5. Rp. 15.000,-
Practice 3

When you ask and answer about prices when you are shopping you can use the following
expressions.

1. How much is this / that / bucket?

2. What does bucket cost?
3. How much is that all together?
4. How much will that be all together?
5. How much are these / those?
6. How much do the shoes cost nowadays?
7. It’s Rp. 25.000,-
8. A bucket costs Rp. 25.000,-
9. Rp. 25.000,-
10. They cost Rp. 75.000,-
Now, take turn asking and answering questions about prices using the following prompts. Study
the example:

A pair of shoes Rp. 75.000,-

A. : What does this pair of shoes cost?

B. : They cost Rp. 75.000,-

1. Paper cups - Rp. 20.000,- / 5 cups

2. Cheese - Rp. 2.550,- / bar

3. Bananas - Rp. 750,- / kg

4. Pork - Rp. 5.500,- / kg

5. Apples - Rp. 6.500,- / kg

Practice 4

When you want to express want or requests you can use the following expression

I want ………………………….

I’d like …………………………

Take turns expressing wants or requests using the following prompts. Study the example. A kg
of potatoes

A. : I want a kg of potatoes

B. : Sure

A. : How much is that

B. : It’s only Rp. 500,-

1. a kg of peaches
2. a kg of carrots

3. a kg of cheese4. a kg of lambs

5. a kg of shampoo

Summary.

The arithmetic symbols and expressions used in shopping activities are as follows:

The arithmetic symbol:

+ = plus, add

= = equals, makes, is equal to

X = times, multiplied by

- = minus, less, out of, subtracts

: = divided by

The language exprssions:

To find out where items are, you can say:

• Do you know where the meat section is?

• Do you know where the butcher is?

To answer the questions, you can say:

• It’s at the back

• It’s in the middle
• It’s on the right/left
• It’s next to the produce
• It’s at the front

To ask the price, you can say:

• How much is a kg of tomato

 • What’s the price of a kg of tomato

To tell the price, you can say:

• It is Rp 6.000,-
• 1 kg of tomato is Rp 6.000,-

To ask for bargain, you can say:

• Any bargain
• Can you lower the price
• Could you reduce the price

To calculate the price, you can say:

• Rp15.000,- + Rp10.000,- = Rp 25.000,- (fifteen thousand plus ten thousand is twenty

five thousand)
• Rp 200 x 5 = Rp 1000 ( two hundred times five equals one thousand)
• Rp 750 – Rp 50 = 700 (seven hundred and fifty minus fifty is seven hundred)

Formative Test

Complete the following dialogues by crossing the best option A, B, C, or D!

1. X : …………………… is 1 kg of sugar?
Y : 1 kg of sugar is twelve thousand rupiahs.
A. How long
B. How many
C. How price
D. How much
2. X : ……………is the price of one bottle of red wine?
Y : One bottle of red wine is $ 5
A. How much
B. How many
C. What
D. What dollars
3. X : What ……….one hundred and twenty five divided by five equal?
 Y : One hundred and twenty five divided by five equals twenty five
A. Is
B. Are
C. Do
D. Does
4. X : What is two thousand and five hundred divided by five hundred equal to?
Y : Two thousand and five hundred divided by five hundred is equal to………..
A. Twenty five
B. Five
C. One hundred and twenty five
D. Five hundred
5. X : …………….. I help you?
Y : Yes please
A. do
B. am
C. what may
D. can
6. X : ………………….you got any T-shirts?
Y : Yes, I have
A. do
B. are
C. have
D. what have
7. X : On which floor is the meat section?
Y : The meat section is on the ……………… floor.
A. two
B. second
C. fiveth
D. five
 8. X : He spent everything he had at supermarket yesterday.
Y : Doesn’t he have …………………money left?
X : No, he doesn’t
A. some
B. many
C. any
D. much
9. X : I’d like to have one laptop, two computers and three camera. A laptop is $ 75,
A computer is $ 55, and a camera is $ 25. How much are they altogether?
Y : Seventy five plus two times fifty five plus three times twenty five equal………..
A. $ two hundred and sixty
B. $ one hundred and fifty five
C. $ two hundred and fifty five
D. One hundred and sixty
10. X : May I see your bill?
Y : Certainly. Here you are
X : two kgs of tomato is Rp12.000,- and 3 kgs of rice is Rp 27.900,-
It is Rp………………………….altogether, madam
A. Thirty nine hundred and nine
B. Thirty nine hundred and nine hundred
C. Thirty nine and nine thousand
D. Thirty nine thousand and nine hundred

Use the key to formative test 12 given at the end of this book to check your answer. Calculate
your correct answers and then use the formula below to see the degree of your comprehension
to the material of chapter 12.

The total of correct answers

The degree of comprehension = --------------------------------------- X 100 %
The total of items
Note: 90 – 100 % = very good

80 – 89 % = good

70 -79 % = Ok

< 70 % = bad

If your comprehension is ≥ 80 %, It is good. However, if it is < 80 %, you have to read unit 12

again especially the materials that you do not understand well yet.

Glossary

section add

Plus times

Minus divided

Multiply subtract

Calculate much

Many some

A little a few

Price buy

How what

Equal kg

Cheap expensive

Bargain fixed price

Help got

Shirt shoes

Bag trousers

Salt rice

Apple tomato

Try on taste

See have a look

How much take

Bill pay

In cash credit card