Shopping game

Shopping Game – Role-Play Speaking Activity

Make oral language practice fun and meaningful with this interactive shopping role-play game! In this activity, one student is the customer and the other is the store owner. Using item cards, a price list, and fake money, students practice asking questions, describing clothing items, making choices, buying products, and giving change.

This resource is perfect for helping learners develop real-life communication skills in a playful and engaging way. Students describe items by color, size, pattern, and style, ask “How much is it?”, express preferences, and complete simple money transactions. It also supports listening comprehension, social interaction, and basic math skills through addition and subtraction.

This resource includes:

• clothing and accessory item cards
• a price list
• opportunities to use fake money
• multiple game variations to keep practice fresh and motivating

Perfect for:

• ESL / EFL learners
• French immersion or core language classes
• literacy centers
• partner work
• oral communication practice
• early finishers
• small groups

Students will practice:

• shopping vocabulary
• clothing vocabulary
• asking and answering questions
• describing items
• expressing preferences
• functional language for buying and selling
• money skills and simple math
• confidence in speaking in a real-life context

This hands-on activity is a great way to bring speaking practice to life in your classroom.