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Italian Shopping

Seventh graders go shopping in Italian (fare spese) — ask Quanto costa? (how much?), talk about il prezzo (the price), and shop at il mercato (the market) and il negozio (the store). They sort what you buy at a food market from a clothing shop.

Grade 7Shopping50 minutes1 class periodACTFL / World LanguagesExplicit teaching4 StandardsACTFL
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Lesson at a Glance

Everything you need before the bell rings

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to…

  • ✓Learn shopping words.
  • ✓Sort market vs shop.
  • ✓Ask how much.
  • ✓Buy something.
Essential Question

Quanto costa? How do you shop and talk about prices in Italian?

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Vocabulary Terms
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Standards Aligned
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Interactive Task
Sort It · Interactive

Food Market or Clothing Store?

Project this and sort each item into the Food market or the Clothing store.

🛒 Sort each — buy it at the food market or the clothing store?Try it
🍎 Food market
👕 Clothing store
Tap an item, then tap a box.
The Lesson · Language Flow (Warm-Up · Present · Practice · Speak · Reflect)

50 minutes, five moves

Tap any phase to open the teacher moves and student actions.

1

Warm-Up — Let’s Shop

6 min

How do you shop and ask prices in Italian?

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Show market & shop photos.
  • Ask “quanto costa?”
  • Set the goal.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Look.
  • Wonder.
  • Get ready.
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Present — Shopping

12 min

Students learn.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Send students to Market or Store?
  • Sort each item.
  • Note quanto costa & prezzo.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Sort.
  • Say.
  • Note it.
3

Practice — Practice

13 min

Students practice.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Ask a price.
  • Name a market item.
  • Name a shop item.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Ask.
  • Name.
  • Name.
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Speak — Speak

13 min

Students speak.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Say “Quanto costa la maglietta?”
  • Buy an item.
  • Ask a partner.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Say it.
  • Buy.
  • Ask.
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Reflect — Reflect

6 min

Students close.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Name a shopping word.
  • Ask a price.
  • Complete the exit ticket.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Name one.
  • Ask it.
  • Complete the exit ticket.
Standards Alignment

Built to the standards you report on

Aligned to the ACTFL World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages (Novice-High).

ACTFL
Communication 1.1

Interpersonal: shop & ask prices.

ACTFL
Communication 1.2

Interpretive: understand prices.

ACTFL
Cultures 2.1

Explore Italian markets & shops.

ACTFL
Communication 1.3

Presentational: make requests.

Differentiation

One lesson, every learner

Multilingual Learners

ELL / EMERGING READERS
  • Item cards with pictures.
  • Market/shop two-column chart.
  • Use play money.

Support & Access

IEP / 504
  • Start with pane & scarpe.
  • Sort one at a time.
  • Use pictures.

Stretch & Extend

GIFTED / EARLY FINISHERS
  • Add prices in euro.
  • Role-play a full purchase.
  • Compare market vs supermarket.
Materials

What to gather

  • 📽️Screen / board
  • 🛒Item cards
  • 💻Market or Store?
  • 💶Play euros
  • 📓Notebooks
  • 🎫Exit-ticket slips
Vocabulary

Key terms — hover for a quick definition

fare speseto shopmercatomarketnegozioshop / storepanebreadfruttafruitscarpeshoesprezzopricequanto costahow much is it
Evaluate

Exit Ticket

Preview the three formative checks. Tap “Sample answer” to see what mastery looks like — hide them before you print for students.

QUESTION 1
How do you ask “How much is it?” in Italian?
Quanto costa?
QUESTION 2
Where would you buy frutta — market or clothing store?
The food market.
QUESTION 3
What does “prezzo” mean?
Price.

Reflect: shopping.

Have students ask “Quanto costa?” about one item in Italian. A printable Italian shopping sheet is in the World Languages library.

Study · Flashcards

Study the key terms

Tap a card to flip it, then rate whether you knew it. Built from this lesson’s vocabulary.

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Practice · Quiz

Check your understanding

A quick self-check with instant feedback, drawn from this lesson’s key terms.

📝 Italian ShoppingQuiz
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Practice · Worksheet

Printable worksheet

A print-and-go review sheet with a built-in answer key. Tap “Show answer key” to reveal answers, or print the clean version for students.

🖨️ Italian ShoppingPrint
Name: ________________________
Date: ____________

Part A · Write the word that matches each meaning

Word bank: fare spese, frutta, mercato, negozio, pane, prezzo, quanto costa, scarpe
  1. fruit
  2. market
  3. shop / store
  4. shoes
  5. bread
  6. price
  7. to shop
  8. how much is it

Part B · Show what you learned

  1. How do you ask “How much is it?” in Italian?
  2. Where would you buy frutta — market or clothing store?
  3. What does “prezzo” mean?
Answer key — Part A: 1) frutta · 2) mercato · 3) negozio · 4) scarpe · 5) pane · 6) prezzo · 7) fare spese · 8) quanto costa
Part B: 1) Quanto costa? 2) The food market. 3) Price.