Acheter Et Vendre – JSS1 French Lesson Note (Third Term)

Acheter et vendre means buying and selling. In this topic, students learn French expressions for asking the price of goods, saying that something is expensive, asking for a lower price, and asking where items can be found and bought. They also learn the names of the shops and places where goods are sold.

Behavioural objectives

By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:

• ask the price of goods in French;
• make observations on the quality and price of a product and negotiate the price;
• name some common items sold in a market, such as sugar, oil, meat, chicken and tomatoes;
• ask where an item can be found or bought;
• say which shop or place sells a given item.

Lesson one: how do we ask the price and negotiate?

Useful vocabulary and expressions

Example dialogue: buying tomatoes

• Combien coûtent les tomates ? (How much are the tomatoes?)
• C’est deux cents naira. (It is 200 naira.)
• Ça, c’est cher. Baissez un peu le prix. (That is expensive. Reduce the price a bit.)
• Cent naira. (100 naira.)
• Non. (No.)

Example dialogue: buying palm oil

• Combien coûte l’huile de palme ? (How much is the palm oil?)
• C’est cinq cents naira. (It is 500 naira.)
• C’est cher. (It is expensive.)
• Donne-moi… (Give me…)

Lesson two: how do we say where items are found?

Asking where to find or buy something

Items that are sold

• du thé, du pain, du riz
• de la viande, de la bière
• de l’eau, de l’huile, de l’orange
• des biscuits, du sel, des tomates

Where can we find them?

On les trouve…

Evaluation

1. How do you ask the price of an item in French? Give two ways.
2. Translate into English: C’est cher. Baissez un peu le prix.
3. Translate into French: Where can I buy bread?
4. Where would you buy meat, fish and a book? Answer in French.
5. Write a short dialogue in French in which you ask the price of palm oil.

Assignment

1. Write out the French names of five items that are sold, using du, de la, de l’ or des.
2. Match each item to the place where it is found: le timbre, le gâteau, le poisson, le livre.
3. Write a five-line dialogue in French in which you ask the price of tomatoes and ask for a lower price.