LESSON OVERVIEW

This B1 lesson focuses on shopping but instead of looking at the typical “at a shop” language it will teach your students the online shopping vocabulary. There are two lexical tasks, followed by speaking task to reinforce new language items. Students will also read about Singles’ Day, the biggest online shopping day in the world, and watch a video about new shopping trend, i.e. livestream shopping.

ONLINE SHOPPING VOCABULARY

The lesson plan starts with checking and introducing online shopping vocabulary through a “group the words” task. This way you can put your class in pairs/small groups and ask them to categorize the words themselves and learn from each other. After clearing any doubts, in the next exercise, your students need to discuss a few points. They are designed so that students have an opportunity to use the language from previous tasks. Next exercise again introduces some typical online shopping vocabulary but this time with focus on verb collocations. Students need to fill in the gaps with verbs to complete the sentences and create collocations. Afterwards, they need to get a bit creative. First, they create questions with new key phrases and then ask and answer each others questions. Having done both language sections, your students will have all the basic language needed for talking about e-commerce.

READING AND VIDEO

After working with vocabulary, it’s time to read and watch. The topic of the lesson is online shopping so what could be better than talking about different shopping trends. First, students will read a short text about Singles’ Day, the largest shopping day in the world. Then, they watch a video about livestream shopping. There is a listening comprehension task that your students need to do while watching the video. Their task is to choose the correct summary about the trend in the US. This part of the lesson ends with a short discussion where students can express their views on the new trend.

ONLINE SHOPPING DEBATE

At the end of the lesson, students should know quite an extensive range of online shopping vocabulary and be able to talk about shopping on the Internet and its various aspects easily. The video should give them a few ideas about the pros and cons of the rising online market. Having said that, you can move to the next section which is a debate. Present your students with the topic and give them a few minutes to brainstorm in groups either benefits or drawbacks of e-commerce. After that, manage the debate and give each group enough time to express their opinions and provide counter-arguments.

RELATED WORKSHEET – ONLINE SHOPPING ADDICTION

We have an additional worksheet that you can use as a standalone material, homework or follow-up to this lesson plan. It looks into the problem of online shopaholics and provides some authentic info on how to identify whether somebody is addicted to online shopping. With this worksheet students will discover new vocabulary, learn something important but also practice their speaking and writing skills. Find it here.