Food, glorious food

Teacher’s notes
Types of shop
1. Check your students know the shops vocabulary. You can tell them the general type of thing
that each one sells, e.g. A greengrocer’s sells fruit and vegetables, but avoid giving specific
examples.
2. Divide students into groups of three and ask them to make a list of things that each shop sells.
Groups score a point for each correct word that no other group has found.
3. Check all the students can pronounce the new words.

Find someone who doesn’t like…

1. Check your students know the food vocabulary.
2. Get them to complete the ‘like/dislike’ column for themselves.
3. Elicit the question and answer, Do you like…? Yes, I do. / No, I don’t.
4. Explain that for each type of food, they must find someone who answers No, I don’t and write
that person’s name in the right‐hand box.
5. The first person to complete all the boxes is the winner.
6. If there is no winner after 10 minutes, stop the activity anyway.

Shopping for food

1. Have students do the exercise on the worksheet.

Answers:
Customer: Good morning. I’d like a kilo of oranges, please.
Shopkeeper: Here you are. Would you like anything else?
Customer: Yes, please – a pineapple and half a kilo of tomatoes.
Shopkeeper: Certainly. Anything else?
Customer: Oh, yes – I’d like a lettuce as well please. And that’s all, thank you.
Shopkeeper: That’s £4.15, please. Would you like a bag?
Customer: No, it’s OK thank you. Goodbye.
Shopkeeper: Goodbye.

2. Get them to practise the conversation in pairs.

3. Give each student a shopping list. Check that they know the vocabulary. Have them practise
the same conversation as above but with the things on their shopping list.

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Containers and quantities

1. Get students to do the matching activity.

Answers:
a tin of baked beans
a piece of cheese
a bottle of vinegar
a bag of groceries
a tube of toothpaste
a packet of tea
a jar of jam
a dozen / half a dozen eggs
500 grammes of / a kilo of flour
a slice of bread
a glass of wine
a box of cereal
a litre of water

2. Ask them to cover their answers. Elicit the containers and their contents using the pictures as
flashcards.
3. Ask students to work in pairs to make a shopping list for two of the following: a picnic; a
packed lunch; a children’s party; a cocktail party; a traditional English breakfast; afternoon tea.
They should include at least six items of food or drink for each, with weight, quantity and
description as appropriate.

In a department store
This can be used as an extra activity for early finishers or as homework.

Answers:
1. on the ground floor
2. in the cafeteria on the lower ground floor
3. on the second floor
4. on the second floor
5. to Returns on the lower ground floor
6. on the second floor
7. in Children’s wear on the first floor
8. on the lower ground floor
9. to Lost property on the lower ground floor
10. in Perfumes and toiletries on the ground floor.

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Worksheet

Types of shop
What does each shop sell?
a) greengrocer’s
b) fishmonger’s
c) butcher’s
d) hardware shop / DIY shop
e) chemist’s
f) bakery/baker’s

Find someone who doesn’t like …

type of food like/dislike someone who dislikes it
prawns
spinach
bananas
mushrooms
coffee
liver
cheese
chocolate
beef
wine

Shopping for food

At the greengrocer’s
Who says each sentence, the shopkeeper or the customer?
 Certainly. Anything else?
 That’s £4.15, please. Would you like a bag?
 Goodbye.
 Here you are. Would you like anything else?
 Yes, please – a pineapple and half a kilo of tomatoes.
 Oh, yes – I’d like a lettuce as well please. And that’s all, thank you.
 No, it’s OK thank you. Goodbye.
 Good morning. I’d like a kilo of oranges, please.

Now put the sentences in the correct order.

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Shopping lists

melon grapefruit
black grapes peaches
apricots raspberries
cauliflower lettuce
onions cucumber
potatoes green beans

Containers and quantities

Match the containers or quantities on the left with the products on the right. Use the pictures on
the next page to help you.

a slice of flour

a packet of baked beans

a litre of eggs

500 grammes of/ a kilo of bread

a dozen / half a dozen jam

a tube of tea

a tin of wine

a piece of toothpaste

a bottle of groceries

a jar of vinegar

a box of cheese

a bag of water

a glass of cereal

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In a department store

JAN LEWINS DEPARTMENT STORE

LOWER GROUND FLOOR
Food hall
Cafeteria
Lost property
Returns

GROUND FLOOR
Perfumes and toiletries
Hats and gloves
Handbags
Shoes

FIRST FLOOR
Ladies fashions
Evening wear
Menswear
Children’s wear

SECOND FLOOR
Luggage
Gifts and china
Restaurant
Toilets

Look at the information above and answer the questions.

1. On which floor can I buy some sandals?

2. I am really tired after a day’s shopping. Where can I get a cup of tea?
3. On which floor can I buy a new suitcase?
4. Where are the toilets?
5. My sister doesn’t like the present I bought her from the store last week. Where should I go?
6. On which floor can I buy some plates?
7. Where can I buy clothes for a 5‐year‐old?
8. On which floor can I do my grocery shopping?
9. I think I left my umbrella in the store yesterday. Where should I go?
10. Where can I buy some make‐up?

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