A shopping role play – Try - Activities © BBC | British Council 2006
A shopping role play
Worksheet B: Shopkeepers
List 1
You have a computer shop. You have the following in stock:
- Blank CDs to burn music – these are on special offer
- You are out of stock of extension leads for MP3 players
- Paper for printers – you have low, medium and high quality, but the high quality
is very expensive
- Headphones for computers – you have them with a microphone or without
- Pens that you can use to write on CDs – you have blue and red only
You don’t let people put cards in your window and don’t know what time it is, or where
the nearest bank is. You do know where the nearest post office is, and you have change
for 10 pounds.
List 2
You have a newsagent’s. You have the following in stock:
- Newspapers. You only have the ‘Independent’, the ‘Sun’ and the ‘Mirror’
- ‘Film Review’ magazine. This week if people pay extra they can get the special
guide to summer films also
- Chewing gum. You have peppermint, cherry and banana.
- Stamps. You have first and second class, in books of 10 and 20.Some
wholemeal bread
- Telephone cards to make international calls, at different values
You let people put cards in your window but don’t know what time it is, or where the
nearest bank or post office is. You have no change.
List 3
You have a bookshop specialising in learning languages. You have the following in
stock:
- Bilingual dictionaries for English and Spanish, French, Chinese and Arabic.
- Guides to English grammar for intermediate levels and below
- Vocabulary practice books, but no grammar practice books at the moment
- Special dictionaries for idioms and also for phrasal verbs
- Monolingual dictionaries, English-English, for all levels but only large size
editions
You don’t let people put cards in your window and don’t know what time it is, but you do
know where the nearest bank is. You have no change.
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List 4
You have a shop selling fruit and vegetables. You have the following in stock:
- Mangos, ripe and ready to eat today
- Oranges
- Bananas, for both dessert and cooking
- Peaches, which you are trying to get people to buy instead of nectarines
- Apples, green and crispy
You don’t let people put cards in your window and don’t know where the nearest bank of
post office is. You have no change but do know what the time is.
List 5
You have a small supermarket. You have the following in stock:
- Salted butter
- Instant noodles, in pots and packets, but only spicy ones
- Full-fat and low-fat milk
- Black pepper, in powder and as corns
- White bread
You let people put cards in your window but don’t know what time it is, or where the
nearest banks or post offices are. You have change for 10 pounds.
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