Unit 9: Compras

Cuanto cuestan estos zapatos?

Ask prices, shop for items, and use direct object pronouns in simple chunks.

A19 min

Handle a basic shopping exchange and refer back to items with very simple pronouns.

Warm-up

Key words

shoes

zapatos

price

precio

how much?

cuanto

I want them

los quiero

Input

En el supermercado

Marta va al supermercado del barrio los sabados por la manana. Lleva una lista corta: leche, pan, arroz y tomates. Primero busca fruta y verduras. Despues pasa por la panaderia interna. En la caja paga con tarjeta y guarda todo en dos bolsas. Luego vuelve caminando a casa para preparar el almuerzo.

  • What does Marta buy?
  • Which shopping words fit a store conversation?
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Focus

Shopping language and simple object reference

This lesson focuses on practical buying language, with direct object pronouns kept at an A1 survival level.

  • Use cuanto cuesta or cuanto cuestan to ask the price.
  • Use quiero or me llevo to choose something.
  • Use lo, la, los, las only in very simple repeated contexts.
Cuanto cuestan estos zapatos?Los quiero.La compro hoy.

Practice

Micro-exercises

Exercise 1

Choose the correct price question for plural shoes.

Exercise 2

Choose a shopping word.

Exercise 3

Choose the best answer for this cuanto cuestan estos zapatos? situation.

Exercise 4

Complete: La camiseta es bonita. ___ quiero. Choose the best option.

Exercise 5

Choose the Spanish for "shoes".

Exercise 6

Complete: La camiseta es bonita. ___ quiero.

Exercise 7

Translate to Spanish: shoes.

Exercise 8

Translate to Spanish: price.

Exercise 9

Translate to Spanish: how much?.

Exercise 10

Translate to Spanish: I want them.

Exercise 11

Put the sentence in the correct order.

quieroLos

Exercise 12

Put the sentence in the correct order.

estoszapatosCuantocuestan

Exercise 13

Put the sentence in the correct order.

quieroLos

Exercise 14

Put the sentence in the correct order.

comprohoyLa

Exercise 15

Put the sentence in the correct order.

quieroSilo

Exercise 16

Choose the most natural reply for this cuanto cuestan estos zapatos? exchange.

Exercise 17

Choose the most natural reply for this cuanto cuestan estos zapatos? exchange.

Exercise 18

Choose the most natural reply for this cuanto cuestan estos zapatos? exchange.

Exercise 19

Choose the most natural reply for this cuanto cuestan estos zapatos? exchange.

Exercise 20

Choose the most natural reply for this cuanto cuestan estos zapatos? exchange.

Use it

Tutor handoff

Copy and paste this prompt into Virtual Tutor to continue the lesson in guided conversation form.

Act as a patient A1 tutor. Roleplay a shoe or clothes shop with me. Make me ask the price and say which item I want.

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