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Subject: Bad Fruit: A Shoppers' Nightmare

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Jenifer

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Date Posted: 13:55:29 04/24/06 Mon
In reply to: Panchito 's message, "We finally have a forum" on 07:52:07 04/19/06 Wed

It's an excellent activity for students from primary level. This game is designed for practicing "shopping" dialogues and vocabulary.
The material that you will need is money (made by the teacher). At least you will need 10 minutes. The object of the game is to accumulate as many products as possible. Students are divided into clerks and shoppers. The clerks set up "stands" to allow easy access for all shoppers (e.g. around the outsides of the room with their backs to the wall). The shoppers are given a set amount of money (e.g. dollars, euros,etc.) and begin at a stand where there is an open space. Students shop, trying to accumulate as many items as possible (each item is 1 unit of currency). Periodically, the instructor will say "stop" (a bell or other device may be needed to attract attention in some cultural and classroom contexts) and call out a name of one of the products. Students with that product must then put ALL their products in a basket at the front of the room. The remaining students continue shopping. Students who had to dump their products must begin again from scratch (with fewer units of currency). The student with the most products at the end wins. Students then switch roles.
*It is recommended giving students as much money as possible since students who run out can no longer participate.
Now your students will learn by having a lot of fun.

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