Have you ever thought of using a supermarket till chit in class ?
You have a real authentic piece of English life in your hands to bring life to the
classroom.
Allow 10 minutes for an oral activity.
You could use it to:
Till Chit 1
– Revise food vocabulary.
– Activate revision on some , any, not….any
– Create a meaningful situation of the Preterit
: « I bought, I didn’t buy, Did you buy ?
»
– Revise How much, How many ? + was and were
Some suggestions:
-Start by getting your pupils to try and remember as much food vocabulary as possible.
-Take the opportunity
o to give abbreviations such as tom for tomato.
o To show the different sorts of milk: semi-skimmed etc
-You could make groups according to the number of pupils in your class.
-or you can start by saying : “I went shopping when I was on holiday in England ! Find out
what I bought. You can only ask yes/no questions”.
Write an example on the board.
-Recap by getting the class to say you bought.. you didn’t buy ? Prompt with “What
about ?”
(at the same time it makes pupils listen to each other.
)
-If you gave the chit to a pupil, you could get the others to ask him or her what the
teacher bought. And then all you have to do is “direct operations !”
You could always finish with a short paragraph in exercise books: « She bought some…, but she
didn’t buy any …, etc. »
Till Chit 2
Till Chit 3