Grocery Store Field Trip

Target Language:
Sections of a Grocery Store / Describing Packaging of Products

Context:
Grocery Store Field Trip

Teacher’s Instructions & Answers:
Included on the last pages.

This is a 7 page lesson for a grocery store field trip, with one page of homework, and teacher’s instructions.

It focuses on:

• Learning the section names of a grocery store / department store.
  (canned goods / seafood / produce / household items / etc.)
• Expressing products including their packaging.
  (a tube of toothpaste / a jar of jam / a carton of milk / etc.)
• Giving directions in a grocery store.
  (Milk is in aisle 12 in the dairy section. On the left side on the 2nd shelf from the top.)
• Describing the different jobs and work responsibilities in a grocery store.

It includes:

• 2 activities of target vocabulary (Teach before the grocery store field trip).
• 4 Activities to practice speaking the target language (During the grocery store field trip).
• 4 Activities for homework or as review in class (After the grocery store field trip).
• One page of teacher’s instructions on how to execute the the grocery store field trip.

Tips:

• The grocery store field trip and other field trips should be divided into 3 sections.
  (One class before to prepare / One class to do the field trip / One class after to review)
• The teacher should spend the field trip time questioning the students as much as possible to get them speaking the target language (Sections/Packaging).
• This lesson leads into a cooking lesson very well. At the grocery store you can also have students make an ingredients list for a recipe.

Please leave any comments below that will be helpful for other teachers using this lesson. All your feedback is greatly appreciated!

For example:
What worked well and what didn’t?
How did you group students?
Did you add in any other exercises?
Did you find any errors in the lesson plan itself?