Topic: Shopping
Mode: Interpretive
Level: Novice
Students will read a brief situation and choose how a clerk at a grocery store would most likely respond.
Components of this activity: A worksheet
Instructions to the teacher
Make a worksheet like the one below for your class. Expand and edit the activity as necessary for your context and purposes. Below, the correct answers appear in bold.
Instructions to students
Read the situations below and choose what the clerk would most likely say.
- You can’t find pickles and ask a clerk where to find them. What is the clerk most likely to say?
- They are in aisle 5
- Some pickles cost 1.99/jar.
- Pickles are on sale this week.
- The store is full and there are no more shopping carts. You ask a clerk to help you find a cart. What is the clerk most likely to say?
- Please come back tomorrow.
- I’ll find one for you.
- Share a cart with another customer.
- You are checking out and the self-check machine stops working. You ask a clerk for help. What is the clerk most likely to say?
- Next time, don’t use self-check.
- Apples are on sale this week..
- This machine is broken.
- You have a coupon for cat food, and you want to know how many cans you may buy at the sale price. What is the clerk most likely to say?
- You may buy 10 cans at the sale price.
- The cat food is in aisle 2.
- The store closes at 9:00pm.
- You ask the person at the fish counter what fish is freshest. What is the clerk most likely to say?
- Our fish comes from Argentina.
- This salmon arrived today.
- This beef is very fresh.
- You are done shopping and are at the cash register. You ask the cashier if you can pay with a credit card. What is the cashier most likely to say?
- Yes, we take cash or credit.
- Yes, we have several sales today.
- Yes, our store will be open on the holiday.