🛍️ Let's Go Shopping! Buying Things & Asking Prices

A2 Teens Lesson 37 introduces essential shopping language through relatable teen scenarios — buying clothes that don't fit, finding bargains at markets, returning items, and the universal panic of not having enough money at the till. The lesson opens with a warm-up asking teens about their own shopping habits and last purchase. The vocabulary core covers 12 high-frequency shopping words and phrases organised into three groups: (1) Money & Paying (price, cost, expensive, cheap, change, receipt, discount), (2) Clothes & Sizes (size, fit, try on, too big/small), and (3) Shop Types & Actions (shop/store, market, customer, cashier, queue). A dedicated 'Polite Phrases Toolkit' teaches the functional language needed for real transactions: 'How much is this?', 'Can I try this on?', 'Do you have this in a smaller size?', 'Can I pay by card?', 'Can I have a bag, please?', and 'I'd like to return this.' The reading is a 'Shopping Diaries' magazine feature with four teen stories from Mia (Germany), Elif (Turkey), Thabo (South Africa), and Lily (UK) — each rated on a satisfaction scale. Practice includes 8 multiple-choice questions covering vocabulary, polite phrases, and reading comprehension, a customer–shop assistant role-play with model dialogue, a 70–100 word 'my shopping story' writing task with checklist, and an 8-question quiz with progress bar and tiered feedback.