By practicing how to buy food in a Russian store, students will learn valuable cultural information that they will need if they ever go to Russia. This exercise also develops students oral proficiency and includes student-student interaction.
Students also learn sociolinguistic skills.
Cards with pictures of food items. First, the teacher goes over the new vocabulary by reading it and asking students to mark the accents on their new vocabulary sheet. She shows the orange cards as she reads the food words. Students are asked to repeat the words in chorus. The teacher also goes over the types of stores and explains what is sold in each store.