1. Topic:Shopping: challenge or perspective for the 21st century
Type of the lesson: Introducing new contents (vocabulary, reading, speaking,listening)
Teacher:Lungu Svetlana, Access Skype Teacher
Program: Access Microscholarship Program, Moldova
Competences:
Communicative and pragmatic competence: oral production of the messages and interaction. Reception of the text messages.
Subcompetences:
1. Extracting essential information from videos.
2. Presenting orally ideas, opinions through expressing personal attitudes and using arguments.
3. Analyzing situations described in the video and text, identifying the personality traits of the main character.
4. Supporting a point of view with relevant arguments while exchanging oral messages on social-cultural topics.
Intercultural Competence: knowing other cultures and personalities
Subcompetences:
1. Identifying famous places in London from the video.
2. Distinguishing cultural aspects of the country presented in the video and comparing to our national culture.
Time: 90 minutes
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2. Nr Competen
ces
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Stages of
the lesson
Evocation
Sub competences
Objectives
To make a
warm
connection
with the
group of the
students
Procedure
Warming-up activity: Each
person gets a colour and they
are asked to speak about things
from the perspective of their
colour.
Red-is the stop/turn-off colour:
speak about a thing that you
have recently bought and was
really a turn-off in your life.
Orange-is the motivation
colour: what things you buy
motivate you for being in a
good mood
Yellow-is the inspiration
colour: what was the best thing
you have bought that inspired
you in for a new activity
Green-is the money colour:
what was the dumbest thing
you have ever bought for much
money
Blue-is the sky’s/limit colour:
what is your favourite fantasy
about shopping.
Purple-is the colour of royalty:
if you were the ruler of a
country for a day having a lot
of money, what would you buy
first?
Indigo-is the odd colour: what
is the most daring thing you
have ever bought.
Methods and Materials
techniques
“Colour
Coloured
Jacuzzi”
paper
Time
6-7
min
Evaluation
Notes

3. 2.
Presenting
orally ideas,
opinions
through
expressing
personal
attitudes and
using
arguments
To get
general
information
about
students’
preferences
and attitudes
The topic we are going to
discuss about is: Shopping:
challenge or perspective for the
21st century.
Conversation
Discussion questions:
1. Do you enjoy
shopping? Why?
2. How often do you go
shopping?
3. What are your favourite
shops?
4. How do you feel about
shops that are very
busy?
5. Do you use to shop
online?
6. Do you often spend
more money than you
planned?
7. What’s the best day for
shopping?
To revise the
types of
shops
Communi Meaning
cative and Realization
pragmatic
competence: oral
production
of the
messages
and
interaction
Town centre: Students have to
think of the centre of their city
or choose one shopping street
or area. Working in groups
they have to find some
different types of shops and
name 3 things they can buy in
each one.
Look at your labels: students
have a look at the labels on
their clothes, bags, pencils, etc.
they have to find out their
To speak
about the
origin of the
things they
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Questions
written on
cards
5 min
Word
order in
building
sentences
Group work
Vocabulary cards
3 min
Types of
shops
Individual
work
Making
stories
Labels of
personal
things:
pencils,
5 min
Names of
countries

4. have and to
make up a
story
origin and fill in the table with
the origin of 5 items. Then they
have to choose an item and
make up a story about the trip
it had. Example: My dress was
made in Turkey, but …. Till it
got to Moldova.
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To identify
the most
important
factors when
buying things
To find a
solution for a
dilemma
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Is it difficult to choose
an item when going
shopping?
Consumer Criteria: students
are given a chart and before
you start the activity ask them
to complete the 4th column of
the chart with an item that is
popular among them. Then
they have to imagine that they
are going to buy the items in
the chart.- What do you
consider before you decide
which one to buy? They have
to decide what are the most
important factors when
shopping for different items.
Price?
How it looks?
The quality?
The brand? Anything
else?
Consumer Quandary Cards:
A quandary is like a dilemma,
a problem. Students are
arranged in groups of 3-4 and
copybooks
, clothes,
etc.
Group work
Charts
6 min
Group work
Quandary
cards
5 min

5. situation
Extracting
essential
information
from videos
Intercultu
ral
Competen
ce:
knowing
other
cultures
and
personaliti
es
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Identifying
famous
places
in
London from
the video
Distinguishin
g
cultural
aspects of the
country
presented in
the video and
comparing to
our national
culture
To speak
about places
to go
shopping in
London and
in Chisinau
To express
opinions on
the given
quotes
each group gets a card. Their
task is to read it and find the
solution.
- What countries would
you like to go
shopping? Why?
Video-watching: students are
going to watch a video about
best shopping places in
London.
After watching the students get
a quiz.
- What are the most
popular places to go
shopping in our city?
Commenting the quotations:
students are divided in groups.
Each group gets a quotation
and express their points of
view:
1. Shopping is the best
therapy when you are
depressed and almost
all women agree to it.
2. “Shopping is a woman
thing. It’s a contact
sport like football.
Women enjoy the
scrimmage, the noisy
crowds, the danger of
being trampled to death
and the ecstasy of the
purchase.” (Erma
Bombeck)
VideoWatching
Quiz
Video:
Shopping
in London
10
min
Group work
Commenting
Quotations 5 min
Oral
compre
hension of
a message
The use of
tenses in
speech

6. To express
opinions and
give
arguments
about
compulsive
shoppers
To identify
the possible
consequences
of
compulsive
shopping
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3. “If men liked shopping
they’d call it research.”
(Cynthia Nelms)
Debate:
- Who are more
compulsive shoppers:
men or women?
Reading: It is believed that
usually women are more
addicted to shopping than men,
but a recent survey has shown
that men also like shopping.
Students are given an article:
Men suffer from compulsive
shopping too. They read the
article and answer some
questions based on it.
1. What did Dr.
LorrinKoram state?
2. How does Dr. Koram
call this addiction?
3. What is said about men
in psychiatry? Why?
4. What do you think
about what you read?
5. How do we call people
who suffer from the
addiction to shop?
Consequences of compulsive
shopping:
Financial problems
Depression
Anxiety
Low self-esteem
Debating
Discussion
6 min
Reading
Conversation
The
article:
8 min
Men suffer
from
compulsiv
e shopping
too
Brainstorming
Conversation
3 min

7. Analyzing
situations
described in
the video and
text,
identifying
the
personality
traits of the
main
character
To
characterize
the main
character of
the movie
To set steps
for reducing
shopaholism
Intercultu
ral Comp:
knowing
other
cultures
and
personalities
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To get
familiarized
with
celebrities
suffering
from
compulsive
shopping
Family harmony
deteriorates
Video-watching:students are
given some pictures and they
have to predict what the video
will be about.
Then they watch the trailer of
the movie “Confessions of a
shopaholic”.
After watching: Their task is
to characterize the main
character of the movie.
Then, they have to distinguish
some personality traits of a
shopaholic: low self-esteem,
emotional problems, they are
materialistic,etc.
Tips for reducing
shopaholism:
- What solutions are
there for people who
are compulsive
shoppers? How can
they be helped?
Students have to think of tips
for reducing shopaholism.
Famous people:
- Do you know that not
only simple people face
this problem, but also
celebrities.
The teacher presents the
students the top of shopaholic
celebrities.
Predicting
Conversation
Listening
Describing
people
Brainstorming
The trailer
of the
movie
“Confessions of a
shopaholic”
7 min
Conversation
Reading
Brainstorming
Power
Point
Presentation
5 min
Conversation
Power
Point
Presentation
3 min
Celebrities

8. Reflection
Extension
Supporting a
point of view
with relevant
arguments
while
exchanging
oral messages
on socialcultural
topics
To express
likes and
dislikes about
shopping
To make a
video about
best shopping
places in our
country
To make a
survey
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Likes / dislikes: students get a
chart and they complete it with
things they really like/are
ok/dislike/really dislike about
shopping.
Making a conclusion:
students are asked to make a
conclusion and express their
points of view: What is
shopping? Challenge or
Perspective?
As for the homework students
1. have to take a walk through
their city and make a video on:
Best Shopping places in
Chisinau.
2. Imagine in our country is
celebrated a new holiday ”Buy
Nothing Day”. Students have
to describe this holiday and tell
their opinions about it. Make a
survey and find out how many
people agree to have such a
holiday in our country. Speak
about the advantages and
disadvantages of this holiday.
Likes &
Dislikes
Chart Filling
Conversation
Likes &
Dislikes
Chart
2 min
6 min
4 min