Bargaining & Negotiating Prices

A2 · Elementary57 minTravelLesson 4 of 8 · Outline

Aims

Goal: negotiate a price politely — ask for a discount, make an offer, and agree a deal.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: Name your price

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: Getting a Good Deal

    Read a 157-word text about Getting a Good Deal

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Bargaining Words

    7 items

  3. Practice7 min

    Practice: Bargaining Sentences

    Gap-fill exercise, 5 items

  4. Practice7 min

    Practice: Make Bargaining Sentences

    Word-ordering exercise, 5 items

  5. Dialogue10 min

    Dialogue: Negotiate a Price

    Role-play: You're at a market and want to buy a leather belt. The seller says it costs 40 euros. (6 lines)

  6. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Your mission: get the deal

    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.

bargaindiscountofferdealexpensivecheapprice

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