Sub-topic 8: En la tienda de ropa
Suggested Lexical Content
In this lesson, the student will apply the vocabulary studied in the previous level (A2.1) and in the previous lessons.
Specific Learning Objectives
After completing this subtopic, the student will be able to:
- Understand what shopping lists are.
- Understand simple inventories made at a boutique.
- Understand short dialogues related to selling and purchasing clothing.
- Understand emails that request information on a boutique’s products and prices.
- Understand short writing about the latest experience being at a boutique.
- Write inventories of clothing items found in his/her store.
- Write paragraphs about different types of clothing a person wears at church, at the park, at school and at the beach.
- Write dialogues that take place at a boutique.
- Write brochures promoting the boutique.
- Create emails requesting information about the boutique’s products and prices.
- Write advertisement signs announcing a current promotion in the boutique.
- Write paragraphs about the last time he/she visited the boutique.
- Understand when individuals describe the places where clothing is sold.
- Understand simple conversations related to buying clothing.
- Understand simple stories about one’s experience at a store or boutique.
- Describe a clothing store (boutique).
- Buy or sell clothing.
- Use courteous words and phrases when making a purchase or sale.
- Request a discount.
- Express emotions towards clothing.
- Give thanks for goods or services received.
- Maintain simple dialogues related to purchasing clothing.
- Narrate one’s last experience about being at the boutique.
Suggested Activities
Written Expression
Step 1
▪ With anticipation, the teacher will ask students to bring to class different clothes items, for example: camisas, pantalones, blusas, faldas, zapatos, calcetines, gorras, suéteres, sombrero, etc. Also, they have to bring hangers to display the clothes.
▪ The teacher will provide a string where to hang the different hold clothes.
Step 2
The teacher will tie the string in front of the class.
The students will hang the clothes making sure to group them by item; example, all the shirts together, pants together etc.
Step 3
Having everything ready, the teacher will ask students to complete exercise # 62 of the workbook. In this exercise, students will write inventories of the clothing items found in the store (Classroom). In this inventory, the students have to consider the following:
Nombre de la prenda y su cantidad total
Tipo de prenda y su cantidad total
Material del que fue fabricada y su cantidad total.
Written Comprehension and Expression
Step 1
The teacher will divide the class in groups of three.
With anticipation, the teacher will ask the students bring to class two Bristol board, markers, glue, and colorful images of clothing. The images should be large enough to be visible from far. The images of clothing shall be categorized as follows: To attend a religious event (church), to go to the park, to go to school and to go to the beach.
Step 2
The groups will create a brochure in which they will promote a boutique. On the brochure, they should include:
name of the boutique, location, and contact number.
A section displaying the different clothes one can wear to attend the church, park, school and the beach.
In each section, they must write a motivational message to encourage the reader to want to buy the clothes for the different occasions.
The images of clothing should be pasted unto the section that it corresponds.
Each image has to have the price next to it.
Step 3
Ask students to move their chairs to the center of the classroom.
Ask the groups to place their brochure on one side of the classroom, leaving space between each other, so the groups can have space to go around the classroom to see the brochures.
Step 4
Each group has to go around the classroom observing all the brochures.
Having hold of a brochure, the groups have to make a list of the items they are interested in buying. When writing the this list, the groups have to write the name of the boutique, the items they are interested in buying for various occasions (to go to church, park, school and the beach), and the price for each item
Oral Comprehension and Expression
Step 1
Each group will present their list; making sure to mention the, name of the boutiques, its location, and list of the items that they are interested in buying for the four different occasions. They need to give the name and price for each item.
Each group has to include at least 3 different boutiques from where they will buy the items.
As soon as each group has presented their list, the teacher will select a student to whom he/she will ask questions about the presentation, for example:
¿Cuáles son los nombres de las boutiques que el grupo mencionó?
¿Qué prendas de vestir seleccionaron de la boutique X?
¿Cuál es el precio del vestido que tiene la boutique X?
Note: Before the presentations start, the teacher has to remind students that he/she or other student will ask questions based on the presentation.
The students have to respond in Spanish and in a complete sentence.
Written Comprehension and Expression
Step 1
For this activity, students will play the game “The Challenge”. The teacher will ask students to bring to class; 2 typing sheets and a marker. To carry on with the game, follow the steps below.
Divide the class in two groups (“A” & “B”).
Ask students to move their chairs to the right hand side of the classroom,
Ask students to form 2 lines facing each other.
Assign a number to each student repeating the numbers in each line.
The student who has the number one, from line “A”, will pair with the student who has the number one, from line “B”.
The students from line “A” are the customers, and students from line “B” will be the sellers.
As soon as they complete the first part of the game, they will change the role.
Step 2
As a second part of the game, the teacher will ask the students from line “A”, to write an email to their partner from line “B”, using the typing sheet and the markers. In this email, the students (customers) from line “A” should include:
His name as sender
Ask the seller for clothing items for him/her to go to the church, park, school and the beach, with their respective prices. This should be in a paragraph format.
The students from line “B” (sellers) will receive the email (written in the typing sheet) and will respond to the customer (in a paragraph format) writing his/her name as “receiver’, and specifying what kind of clothes items he/she has for the different occasions and the prices for each item. The seller has to provide brief descriptions of the items.
Step 3
As soon the students finish writing the email, each pair read the email in front of the class.
Note:
For this game no notes are allowed.
Everything should be in Spanish
The teacher will set a time to for students to write the email
If the school allows the students can use social media for more effectiveness of the game.
Written Comprehension and Expression
Step 1
With anticipation, divide students in groups of three, and he/she will ask them bring to class a Bristol board, markers, ruler, images of clothes, an image of a boutique, and glue. This to create a poster in class.
Step 2
Each group has to create a poster advertising a boutique. In this poster they should include:
The name of the boutique (something funny)
Location
Contac number or email
The kind of clothes items they offer
A promotion
Opening hours
A message persuading the customers to visit the boutique.
Each student should be creative in this activity.
Everything should be in Spanish.
Step 3
Each group will present their poster in front of the class.
As soon each presentation finishes, the teacher will call on any student randomly and ask a few of the following questions based on the poster presented. For example:
¿Cómo se llama la tienda de ropa/boutique?
¿Qué productos ofrecen?
¿Cuánto cuesta/vale un/una….?
¿En dónde está ubicada?
¿Cuál es el número de teléfono?
The student should respond in Spanish and in complete sentence.
Oral Comprehension and Written Expression
Step 1
The teacher will play an audio where a boutique is being advertised.
The teacher will ask students to complete exercise # 63 of the workbook. In this exercise the students have to complete an comprehensive exercise based on the audio.
Written Comprehension
Step 1
The teacher will ask students to complete exercise # 64. This exercise contains a dialogue related to buying clothes. The students have to complete a comprehensive exercise based on the dialogue.
Written Expression
Step 1
The teacher will ask students to complete exercise # 65. In this exercise, students will write a story based on his/her experience in a clothing shop, which can be real or factual. In this story, the student should include the following points:
The name of the clothing shop
Its location
Describe the shop (material, color, size, appearance, etc.)
List the product that can be found in the shop.
Talk about the prices.
List the products he/she bought.
State how much paid and how much discount he/she gets.
State what from the shop motivate him/her.
State when he/she visited the shop.
Talk about the person who attended him/her in the shop.
Note:
The order of the points in the story is not important.
The story should be in a paragraph format. Not answering the points.
The story should be in Spanish.
Writings in present and past tense is mandatory.
Oral Expression
Step 1
Using the same information from exercise #65, students will present his/her story in front the class
The teacher or any student will ask questions to the presenter based on his/her presentation.
Written and Oral Expression
Step 1
The teacher will divide place the class in pairs.
With anticipation, each pair will prepare a dialogue based on their experience in a boutique. In this dialogue they should include:
Describir la boutique
Hablar de los productos de la boutique.
Detallar cómo fueron atendidos. (Incluir palabras de cortesía utilizado por la vendedora y el cliente)
Hablar de medidas y tallas
Hablar de materiales
Hablar de tipos de vestuarios (para diferentes ocasiones)
Hablar sobre lo que compró.
Hablar sobre lo que más le llamó la atención en la boutique.
Hablar sobre descuentos y sobre la cantidad que pagó.
Mostrar agradecimiento por el servicio.
Each student should be familiar with the content of the dialogue, because no notes will be allowed for the next step of this activity.
Step 2
Each pair should role play the dialogue, without any notes.
