Unit 1: Pop-ups
Present simple, present continuous & present perfect
Select a unit
- 1Pop-ups
- 2Hidden talents
- 3Can't buy me love
- 4Travellers' tales
- 5The colleague from hell
- 6Jurassic mystery: unpacking the past
- 7Career changes
- 8Art
- 9Project management
- 10The dog ate my homework!
- 11The diary of a double agent
- 12Fashion forward
- 13Flat pack skyscrapers
- 14Extreme sports
- 15Food fads
- 16Me, my selfie and I
- 17Endangered animals
- 18A nip and a tuck: cosmetic surgery
- 19I'm really sorry...
- 20Telling stories
- 21Fakes and phrasals
- 22Looking to the future
- 23Becoming familiar with things
- 24From rags to riches
- 25Against the odds
- 26Our future on Mars?
- 27Where is it illegal to get a fish drunk?
- 28Dodgy dating
- 29Annoying advice
- 30I'll have been studying English for thirty weeks
Session 4
You're on holiday and you've found the perfect souvenir. But it's too expensive… What to do? It's time to haggle! Learn how to do it in this session.
Activity 2
Your turn
Can you do it a bit cheaper?
Learning about haggling would be no fun without the chance to practise! So, now it's time to put our haggling language to good use.
ነቲ ጽሑፍ ብምንባብ ነቲ ስራሕ ዕመምዎ
To do
Imagine you're at a pop-up market and you've seen a camera you really like. It's a vintage one - very stylish! All your friends will be jealous. But first, you have to buy it - and the seller wants too much. He wants £100, but you only want to spend £50. Answer the questions in our haggling quiz!
It's a deal
6 Questions
Try out your haggling language in this quiz. If more than one answer is grammatically correct, pick the one which sounds most natural.
ሓገዝ
Activity
Try out your haggling language in this quiz. If more than one answer is grammatically correct, pick the one which sounds most natural.
ኣመት
It's a very simple verb...Question 1 of 6
ሓገዝ
Activity
Try out your haggling language in this quiz. If more than one answer is grammatically correct, pick the one which sounds most natural.
ኣመት
You need a noun here.Question 2 of 6
ሓገዝ
Activity
Try out your haggling language in this quiz. If more than one answer is grammatically correct, pick the one which sounds most natural.
ኣመት
What did Rob say in Activity 1?Question 3 of 6
ሓገዝ
Activity
Try out your haggling language in this quiz. If more than one answer is grammatically correct, pick the one which sounds most natural.
ኣመት
You need a phrasal verb.Question 4 of 6
ሓገዝ
Activity
Try out your haggling language in this quiz. If more than one answer is grammatically correct, pick the one which sounds most natural.
ኣመት
Have a look at the examples in Activity 1.Question 5 of 6
ሓገዝ
Activity
Try out your haggling language in this quiz. If more than one answer is grammatically correct, pick the one which sounds most natural.
ኣመት
The seller is agreeing to sell at £50.Question 6 of 6
Excellent!Great job!ሕማቕ ዕድል!ዘመዝገብኩምዎ ነጥቢ ...:
End of Session 4
Well done: you're now a professional haggler! That's all for this session. Join us in Unit 2 to learn about prepositions in, on and at.
Session Vocabulary
to haggle
to argue about a pricea bargain
a very cheap priceto knock off
(here) to lower a priceI haven't got that kind of money
I haven't got enough money for thatgo on then
(here) I agree to buy/sell at the price you just said
