🛍️ How About These Shoes? — Shopping With A Friend
Today you will practice shopping with a friend: ask for an opinion ("How's this cap?" / "How are these shoes?"), make a suggestion ("How about…?"), say yes ("I really like it, too!") or no ("Nah. I don't think so.") — and review this, these, that, those and too from Lesson 15.
Window Shopping After School
Read the little scene below.
🤔 When you go shopping with a friend, what do you say?
💬 How's This? How Are These? — Ask For An Opinion
Use How's (= how is) for one thing and How are for two or more things — or for always plural words like pants and shoes.
1️⃣ One Thing
- "How's this jacket?"
- → "It's nice. I like the color."
- → "It's too big for me!"
👟 Two Or More / Pairs
- "How are these shoes?"
- → "They're great!"
- → "They're really expensive."
The color's nice = "The color is nice." In speaking, is often becomes 's: how's, it's, the color's. But never "How's these shoes?" ❌ → "How are these shoes?" ✅
🪟 Ask Your Friend!
Click something in the shop window: you ask the question, and Leo gives his opinion. Watch it and they!
👍 How About…? — Suggest, Say Yes Or Say No
Use How about…? to suggest something to your friend. Then your friend can say yes or no — politely!
👍 Yes!
- "Great! I really like it, too."
- "Yes! The color's nice."
👎 No, thanks
- "Nah. I don't think so."
- "Hmm, it's too small."
- "Oh, well. Let's go back home."
Nah is a friendly, informal "no" — use it with friends, not with your teacher! 😉 And don't mix up too (= also / too much), to (go to school) and two (2).
💖 Like It Or Nah?
Your friend suggests something. Read the tag, then swipe the card (or click 👍 / 👎): is it a "Great!" or a "Nah"?
🧩 Dialogue Challenge — Choose The Right Word
Mia and Leo are at the store. Choose the right word for each blank: this, these, that, those or too. Then check, and listen to the whole conversation!
Listen And Repeat!
Click 🔊 Listen to hear the phrase, 🐢 Slowly to hear it slower, then 🎙️ My turn and say it out loud into your microphone!
✍️ Practice Time!
Exercise 1 — True Or False?
Exercise 2 — Complete The Dialogue
Fill in the missing word in each line of the conversation.
🎭 Create & Record: Shopping With A Friend
You and a friend are in a store. Write a conversation: ask for opinions (How's…? / How are…?), make suggestions (How about…?), say yes and say no — and decide what to do at the end!
🎙️ Now, Record It!
Act out your conversation out loud (alone with both voices, or with a friend) and record yourselves. Then listen back!
🎯 Final Quiz — Shopping With A Friend
Answer 7 questions to test everything you learned in this lesson!