Shopping For Groceries

Objective: To be able to request assistance in a grocery store. To be able to name common foods.

Dialog:

A. Let's go to the store. I need some fresh vegetables.

B. O.K. I need to get some coffee and some hamburger meat. A. Excuse me. Where can I find the carrots?

C. They are over on aisle 12 in the produce section. A. Thank you. By the way, do you have any fresh strawberries?

C. No. We are all out of strawberries. We will have some in next Saturday.

Practice 1: Vocabulary Expansion

I need some milk.

butter.

lettuce.

corn.

ground meat.

fish.

 

Practice 2: Vocabulary Expansion

I need some eggs.

bananas.

lemons.

carrots.

potatoes.

 

Practice 3: Pattern Practice

Eggs? They are over on aisle 12.

Bananas?

Milk? It is over on aisle 12.

Butter?

Practice 4: Vocabulary Expansion

Where can I find the cereal?

flour?

sugar?

bread?

 

Practice 5: Vocabulary Expansion

Where can I find the onions?

apples?

pineapples?

watermelons?

strawberries?

donuts?

 

Practice 6: Vocabulary Expansion

Apples? They are in the produce section.

Watermelons? produce

Eggs? dairy

Donuts? bakery

 

Practice 7: Vocabulary Expansion

Milk? It is in the dairy section.

Bread? bakery

Lettuce? produce

Ham? meat department

 

Practice 8: Vocabulary Expansion

I need a gallon of milk.

Quart cream.

Pint juice.

half-gallon ice cream.

 

Practice 9: Vocabulary Expansion

I want a can of corn.

a head of lettuce.

a box of cereal.

a dozen eggs.

donuts.

 

Practice 10: Dictation

Dictate the dialog and have students write it. This should be done by

reading each sentence of the dialog once and allowing time for the students

to write. After you have gone through the entire dialog, one sentence at a

time, read the entire dialog through at normal conversational speed and have

them check their work. Then have them compare their written version to the

written version in the text and mark their mistakes.