The big sale day

What's in the lesson

1. 1Warm-up
2. 2In this lesson
3. 3Guess the words (1)Vocabulary exercise
4. 4Guess the words (2)Vocabulary exercise
5. 5Check the wordsVocabulary
6. 6Check your understandingReading comprehension
7. 7Listen: my first Black FridayListening comprehension
8. 8Use the new wordsVocabulary exercise
9. 9Can you count it?Grammar exercise
10. 10Find much, many and a lot ofGrammar exercise
11. 11Much, many, a lot ofGrammar rule
12. 12Much or many?Grammar exercise
13. 13Say it right: shopping questionsSpeaking practice
14. 14Black Friday with $300Speaking practice
15. 15Let's discussDiscussion
16. 16Wrap-up

Homework

1. 1Homework: closest meaningVocabulary exercise
2. 2Homework: your sentencesVocabulary exercise
3. 3Homework: much, many or a lot of?Grammar exercise
4. 4Homework: a shopping dayDiscussion

Words

• sale/seɪl/

  a time when a store sells things at a special low price (on sale)

• discount/ˈdɪskaʊnt/

  an amount of money taken off the usual price (a 20% discount)

• deal/diːl/

  something you buy at a good price (a good deal)

• crowd/kraʊd/

  a large group of people in one place

• wait in line/ˌweɪt ɪn ˈlaɪn/

  to stand behind other people and wait for your turn

• customer/ˈkʌstəmər/

  a person who buys things from a store or a company

• profit/ˈprɑːfɪt/

  the money a business makes after it pays for everything (make a profit)

• stuff/stʌf/

  things (informal, and always uncountable: a lot of stuff)

• afford/əˈfɔːrd/

  to have enough money to buy something (can't afford)

• budget/ˈbʌdʒɪt/

  the amount of money you plan to spend

Two slides from the lesson

Warm-up

Let's talk about shopping.

1. Where do you usually buy clothes: in stores or online?
2. What was the last thing you bought? Was it expensive?
3. Are there big sale days in your country? When?

Grammar rule

Much, many, a lot of

Countable and uncountable nouns

Countable nouns have a plural: a store → two stores, a person → many people. Uncountable nouns have no plural and no a/an: money, traffic, stuff, shopping, time (minutes and hours).

	Countable (stores, people)	Uncountable (money, stuff)
a lot	a lot of stores	a lot of money
questions	How many stores?	How much money?
negatives	There weren't many TVs.	I don't have much time.

In positive sentences, use a lot of with uncountable nouns: I bought a lot of stuff. (Not usually I bought much stuff.) With plural nouns, a lot of and many are both fine: Many people buy TVs.

so much / so many (a very big amount) and too much / too many (more than is good) are fine in positive sentences: There was so much traffic. We buy too much stuff. There were too many people.