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Project: Let’s go shopping
Textbook: p. 23
GoalProject “Let’s Go Shopping”: buy and sell, then report with “bought”.
New words
customer · xaridorsales assistant · sotuvchisoum · so‘mbought · sotib oldi
Explanation
In the project the classroom becomes a shop: one group are sales assistants and the other are customers. Sales assistants advertise their goods: “Come here! Look at my apples. They are the best apples in town!” Customers say what and how much they want and ask the price: “How much are the apples?” Afterwards they report: “I bought two kilos of apples and a bar of chocolate.” Bought is the Past Simple of buy (irregular): buy – bought. Prices: “That’s 5,000 soums.” The money is the soum. Assistant’s report: “I sold three kilos of sausages.” (sell – sold).
Worked examples
“At the shop”. The sales assistant shouts: “Come here! Fresh bread! The best bread in town!” Dilya buys a loaf of bread, a bottle of milk and a jar of honey. She pays six thousand soums. After school she tells her friend: “I bought a loaf of bread, a bottle of milk and a jar of honey. They were not expensive!”
— How much are the grapes? — They’re 8,000 soums a kilo. — Two kilos, please. — That’s 16,000 soums.
Class activity
“Class market”: three “shops” and five “customers” with play money. Customers buy from a list and then report: “I bought …”.
Practice
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Complete: Yesterday I (buy) two kilos of apples.
bought
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Price: 8,000 soums a kilo; how much are two kilos? Write the number.
16000
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Write a customer’s report: bread, milk, honey.
I bought some bread, some milk and some honey.
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Why “bought” and not “buyed”?
Buy is an irregular verb; its past form is not made with -ed and must be learned.