Shopping

Spanish 1
Lesson Activities
Shopping
The Lesson Activities will help you meet these educational goals:
 Vocabulary Skills—You will use new and learned vocabulary in different real-world
situations.
 Cultural Awareness—You will investigate the culture and customs of other countries
and compare them to your own.
 Communication Skills—You will practice reading, writing, and listening skills to
communicate meaningfully in a new language.
 21st Century Skills—You will employ online tools for research and analysis.
Directions
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answers directly in the document.
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Self-Checked Activities
Read the instructions for the following activities and type in your responses. Click the link to
the Student Answer Sheet at the end of the lesson. Use the answers or sample responses to
evaluate your own work.
1. De compras en el mercado central
Read the following sentences about a shopping trip and arrange them in the most logical
sequence.
 Pagamos el dinero.
 Compramos la comida para el cumpleaños.
 Fuimos a casa.
 Fuimos de compras a la Vega Central.
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2. La experiencia de ir de compras
a. What is your preferred shopping location? Would you like to walk around an open-air
artisan’s fair or would you rather go to a mall where you could find everything you need
under one roof?
Do some research on malls and open-air artisan’s fairs in Chile. Explore both options
and write an essay of 150 words or less, in English, describing what you like or dislike
about both. Describe, in detail, your personal preferences in clothing, mode of
payment, preferred shopping times, and the structure of the shopping venue.
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b. Use the sentences from the following list to complete the descriptions of the situations
below. Match each prompt to the situation where it best fits. Pay special attention to
the use of the preterit or imperfect tense in the following sentences:
 Fuimos al almacén y compramos una botella de agua.
 Fui al supermercado y pagué con mi tarjeta de crédito.
 Fue a la Vega Central y compró carne, verduras, y una sandía.
 Fui al mall y compré un vestido azul.
i.
Eran las 8 de la noche. Al siguiente día era el cumpleaños de mi hermana y
necesitaba comprar un regalo para ella.
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ii.
Mi mamá quería comprar comida para un asado grande.
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iii.
Hacía mucho calor y teníamos mucha sed.
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iv.
Fui a comprar comida, pero no tenía efectivo.
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3. Leer y escribir
Emily decides to write about the various shopping experiences in Chile on her Spanishlanguage blog. She wants to describe the different shopping environments, stores, and
the gift she bought for her cousin. Write the blog entry, in Spanish, from Emily’s
perspective.
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¡Excelente!—I included all of the same ideas as the model response on the Student Answer Sheet.
Más o menos—I included most of the ideas in the model response on the Student Answer Sheet.
No muy bien—I did not include any of the ideas in the model response on the Student Answer Sheet.
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