A Shopping Role Play Worksheet B

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A Shopping role play – Worksheet B: Shopkeepers

List 1

You have a computer shop. You have the following in stock:

- Blank CDs to burn music – these are on special offer


- You are out of stock of chargers for mobile phones
- Paper for printers – you have low, medium and high quality, but the high quality is very
expensive
- Headphones for computers – you have them with a microphone or without
- Pens that you can use to write on CDs – you have blue and red only

You don’t let people put cards in your window and don’t know what time it is, or where the
nearest bank is. You do know where the nearest post office is, and you have change for 10
pounds.

List 2

You have a newsagent’s. You have the following in stock:

- Newspapers. You only have the ‘Independent’, ‘The Sun’ and the ‘The Mirror’
- ‘Film Review’ magazine. This week if people pay extra they can get an extra guide to
summer films
- Stamps. You have first and second class, in books of 10 and 20
- Chewing gum, cherry and peppermint flavour
- Telephone cards to make international calls, at different values

You let people put cards in your window but don’t know what time it is, or where the nearest
bank or post office is. You have no change.

List 3

You are a bookshop specialising in learning languages. You have the following in stock:

- Bilingual dictionaries for English to Spanish, French, Chinese and Arabic.


- Guides to English grammar for intermediate levels and below
- Vocabulary practice books, but no grammar practice books at the moment
- Special dictionaries for idioms and also for phrasal verbs
- Monolingual dictionaries, English-English, for all levels but only large size editions

You don’t let people put cards in your shop and you don’t know what time it is, but you do know
where the nearest bank is. You have no change.
List 4

You have a shop selling fruit and vegetables. You have the following in stock:

- Mangos, ripe and ready to eat today


- Oranges
- Bananas, for both dessert and cooking
- Peaches, which you are trying to get people to buy instead of nectarines
- Apples, green and crispy

You don’t let people put cards in your window, and don’t know where the nearest bank or Post
Office is. You have no change, but you do know what the time is.

List 5

You have a small supermarket. You have the following in stock:

- Salted butter
- Instant noodles, in pots and packets, but only spicy ones
- Full-fat and low-fat milk
- Black pepper, in powder and as corns
- White bread

You let people put cards in your window but don’t know what time it is, or where the nearest
bank or Post Office is. You have change for 10 pounds.

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