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Unit 8: For sale

Online session 1

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Unit 8: For sale

Session 1 communicative objective

By the end of this session, you will be able to talk about

ads announcing a sale.

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 Vocabulary review
Warm-up • Think of a sentence with the word your instructor will assign to you.
• Activate your microphone and camera and share your sentence.

Example:
I know that women’s clothes are fifty percent off the
regular price at Ripley’s cyber wow this week.

3-5 minutes

whole class

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Word bank
fifty percent off
Ads
• for sale
• free
• Read these ads.
• furniture store • Then answer the question below.
• low prices
• open
• price
What information is necessary in an ad?
• product
• regular price
• sale

Pre-production 1 4
3-5 minutes whole class
 Ads

• Watch one of these ads.

• Come back and share your answers to the questions below.

1. Sandcliffe Big Sale ad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vpYBIkrDbM (0´30”)

2. DMC Basic Display Ad Video - Appliance Store https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNh3t8poefs (0’49”)

• What things are on sale?

• What are the prices?
• When is the sale?

3-5 minutes
Optional pre-production
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whole class
 Ads
• Work in pairs.
• Talk about ads.

1. What things are announced in ads?

2. What information is included in an ad?
3. Are there any pictures in ads? Give examples.
4. What’s your favorite ad? Show examples.
5. Give examples of sentences you can write in an ad.

8 minutes
Production 1
pairs 6
 Ads

Feedback
• Tell us about your favorite ad.

6 minutes

whole class

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 A sale
• Talk about sales in your town/city/country.

What things are on sale? When is the sale? What are the prices?

Language bank
• There is a (winter / summer/ Christmas/etc.) sale at .
• They’re having a (type of sale).
• They’re selling (products).
• (products) are for sale.
• Everything is percent off the regular price.
• For example, a (product) is percent off the regular price.
• A (product) is (price).
• The price of a (product) is .
• You get a free .
• This sale is for (how long).
• They’re open (days-times).
• They are at (address).

3-5 minutes
Pre production 2
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whole class
 A sale
• Work in pairs. Talk about sales in your town/city/country. Ask and answer questions too.
• What things are on sale?
• What about (products)? Language bank
• When is the sale?
• What are the prices? • There is a (winter / summer/ Christmas/etc.) sale at .
• When is the store open? • They’re having a (type of sale).
• They’re selling (products).
• Are the (products) on sale?
• (products) are for sale.
• Is (name of a store) open (when)?
• Everything is percent off the regular price.
• For example, a (product) is percent off the regular price.
• A (product) is (price).
• The price of a (product) is .
• You get a free .
• This sale is for (how long).
• They’re open (days-times).
• They are at (address).

8 minutes
Production 2
pairs 9
 A sale

Feedback
• Tell us about sales in your town/city/country.

6 minutes

whole class

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Summary

Now I can…
√talk about ads announcing a sale.

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Preparation for
next class

Reinforce Unit 8.
Do Grammar Practice component exercises.
Work on the Enrichment Practice component.

Study the Use of English file.

Check out the Practice Resources folder.

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Sources
🞄https://thenounproject.com/
🞄https://www.shutterstock.com/
🞄https://dictionary.cambridge.org/es/diccionario/ingles-
espanol/credit
🞄http://iteslj.org/questions/movies.html
🞄English Discoveries Student platform

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