shopping

i'm actually a pretty staunch anti-capitalist who hates shopping and things shopping related. it's kind of a bummer for me that this technique is so good with the kids. but there you have it.
kids like to practice shopping. this is a really good way to teach food words and have the kids practice short conversation in a situation that they will probably encounter sometime in their life.
it works best if you have toy versions of food. review the names of the food and lay them out on a table. this becomes the store. then give the kids some fake money. one at a time they get to come up to the store, talk to the shopkeeper and make their purchase. some sentence structures that you can use when doing this are:
*i want....
*do you have ...?
*i'd like...
*...please.
if the kids are older, you can play mean lil tricks on them like asking for more money than they have and seeing how they deal with the situation.
Tags: esl, food vocab, shopping game

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