Shopping & Spending Expressions
somdn_product_pageThis ESL shopping idioms worksheet helps upper-intermediate and advanced students expand their vocabulary with idioms related to shopping, money, and spending. Through matching, gap-fill, and rewriting activities, learners practise expressions like splash out, shop around, cost an arm and a leg, and sell like hot cakes.
The lesson also includes communicative and short writing tasks that encourage students to personalise the language, discussing their own spending habits and comparing idioms across cultures.
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.
This is most suited to B2/C1 level students.
1 hour, 20 minutes + (depending on level and conversation development)
How to use this ESL shopping idioms worksheet
- Begin with warm-up questions about shopping and spending to activate existing vocabulary.
- Introduce the target idioms and discuss their meanings in context.
- Students complete matching and gap-fill exercises to practise new expressions.
- Learners use the idioms in mini-dialogues they create in pairs.
- Finish with group discussion questions to further practice the shopping and spending expressions.
Lesson focus
- Skills: Vocabulary, speaking, and writing
- Topic: Shopping, money, and spending idioms
- Language: Expressions and idioms for prices, value, and buying behaviour
Teacher tips
- Pairs perfectly with the Black Friday & Consumerism ESL lesson (B1+/B2) as a higher-level follow-up activity.
- Encourage students to compare idioms and expressions about spending in their own language.
- Ideal for upper-intermediate to advanced general or business English classes focused on consumerism and financial vocabulary.
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