Shopping for Clothes
somdn_product_pageThis ESL shopping for clothes lesson helps students develop practical, real-world English for buying clothes in shops. Through listening, speaking and role-play tasks, learners gain confidence using everyday expressions for choosing items, asking about sizes, talking about fit and interacting naturally with shop assistants.
The lesson is designed to build fluency while strengthening core listening and functional language skills.
This lesson comes with:
Fillable Fields – This worksheet can be completed digitally or printed.
Teacher’s Copy – Includes detailed teacher’s notes and an answer key.
Student Version – Perfect for sharing via email for online lessons.
Audio – Includes a recorded listening for the clothes shopping dialogue.
This is most suited to A2/B1– level students.
1 hour + (depending on level)
Lesson Focus
The lesson follows a clear sequence:
- Warm-up questions about shopping habits
- First listening for overall understanding
- Second listening with a short gap-fill to highlight key phrases
- Vocabulary in context, focusing on expressions commonly used in ESL buying clothes situations.
- Dialogue practice, where students read and repeat the conversation
- Short role-plays, giving learners the chance to reuse the language in new situations
This approach works well within an ESL shopping theme and supports functional English for everyday tasks.
Related Resources
This lesson combines well with other ESL shopping worksheets, such as our Let’s Talk About… Clothes Shopping activity, creating a balanced mix of listening, speaking and real-world communication tasks.
Try this ESL shopping for clothes lesson in class today!
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