2　 Revise How many + countables, How much + uncountables. Note How much are the apples? = How much (money) are the apples?, but the word money is not used.

3　 Have a student acting as a shopkeeper. Get students to ask How much is the …? Oh, that's expensive / cheap!

4　 Get students to “buy” their own items, ending the dialogue with OK Here's (one yuan). And thank you. Here's your (pen).

Step 2　 Game

Play the Memory Selling Game in Lesson 113, Step 3 of the TB. See if the students can think of items in alphabetical order, e.g. apples for A, bananas for B, etc.

Step 3　 Read and act

SB Page 63, Part 1, Speech Cassette Lesson 115. Books closed! Ask What does Tom buy? Play the tape. Check the answers. (Tomatoes and potatoes.) Then books open! Play the tape again; students listen and repeat. Discuss any problems. Get some students to read the passage aloud. Do Wb Lesson 115, Ex. 2. Get the students to answer Right or Wrong in pairs. Check the answers in class.

Step 4 Practice

SB Page 63, Part 2. In pairs have the students make up dialogues using the dialogue as a model. They should substitute the items in the box into the dialogue. Have several pairs volunteer to read their dialogue for the class.

Step 5 Listen and answer

SB Page 63, Part 3, Listening Cassette Lesson 115. Get the students to read the questions in Wb Lesson 115 Ex. 1 before you play the tape.

Listening Text

FATHER: Bill! BILL: Yes, Dad? FATHER: I want to go shopping now. Can you help me, please? BILL: Certainly, Dad. What do you want me to do? FATHER: Do you have a pencil? BILL: Yes, I have one here. FATHER: Good! Please write down the things we want to buy. Now, let me see. Yes — 12 eggs. BILL: Right, twelve eggs. FATHER: Now, what about bread? No, we have a lot of bread. Oh —milk — two bottles of milk. BILL: Yes, two bottles of milk. OK. FATHER: Now, for supper this evening. Fish or meat? What would you like? BILL: Let's have some fish! FATHER: OK! Half a kilo — no, a kilo of fish. BILL: What about fruit? FATHER: OK. Let's buy half a kilo of pears, and half a kilo of oranges. BILL: Can we buy some bananas, too? FATHER: OK, some bananas. Do you have the list? BILL: Yes, Dad. FATHER: OK! Let's go. Bring the shopping basket. BILL: OK, Dad, I have it here.

The answers are: 1 He wants to go shopping. 2 Yes, he does. 3 12 eggs. 4 Yes, they do. 5 Pears, oranges and bananas. 6 12 eggs, two bottles of milk, a kilo of fish, half a kilo of pears, half a kilo of oranges, bananas.

Step 6　 Workbook

SB Page 145, Wb Lesson 115, Ex. 3. Let the students work in pairs and then call out some pairs to give their performance.

Homework

Revise the dialogues in SB Wb Lesson 115.

Unit 29 Shopping Lesson 115教学设计