Measurements and Quantities

A1 · Beginner57 minBasic BasicsLesson 8 of 8 · Outline

Aims

Goal: buy food with quantities — a kilo of rice, a litre of milk, a dozen eggs.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: How much do you need?

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: At the Supermarket

    Read a 81-word text about At the Supermarket

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Measurement Words

    6 items

  3. Practice7 min

    Practice: Complete the Quantities

    Gap-fill exercise, 5 items

  4. Practice7 min

    Practice: Match Quantities and Items

    Matching exercise, 5 items

  5. Dialogue10 min

    Dialogue: Shopping for Food

    Role-play: You buy food at the supermarket (6 lines)

  6. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Your mission: the shopping list

    3 discussion questions

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Target vocabulary

In a Tuton account these words become your student's vocabulary deck, so they come back in practice between lessons.

kilogramlitrebottlea dozena bag of

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