Unit 1: Pop-ups
Present simple, present continuous & present perfect
Select a unit
- 1 Pop-ups
- 2 Hidden talents
- 3 Can't buy me love
- 4 Travellers' tales
- 5 The colleague from hell
- 6 Jurassic mystery: unpacking the past
- 7 Career changes
- 8 Art
- 9 Project management
- 10 The dog ate my homework!
- 11 The diary of a double agent
- 12 Fashion forward
- 13 Flat pack skyscrapers
- 14 Extreme sports
- 15 Food fads
- 16 Me, my selfie and I
- 17 Endangered animals
- 18 A nip and a tuck: cosmetic surgery
- 19 I'm really sorry...
- 20 Telling stories
- 21 Fakes and phrasals
- 22 Looking to the future
- 23 Becoming familiar with things
- 24 From rags to riches
- 25 Against the odds
- 26 Our future on Mars?
- 27 Where is it illegal to get a fish drunk?
- 28 Dodgy dating
- 29 Annoying advice
- 30 I'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.
Wayitii marii qabxii 4
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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.
Barreeffama kana dubbisii shakala kana xumuri
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.
Gargaarsa
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Try out your haggling language in this quiz. If more than one answer is grammatically correct, pick the one which sounds most natural.
karaarra buusu
It's a very simple verb...Question 1 of 6
Gargaarsa
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Try out your haggling language in this quiz. If more than one answer is grammatically correct, pick the one which sounds most natural.
karaarra buusu
You need a noun here.Question 2 of 6
Gargaarsa
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Try out your haggling language in this quiz. If more than one answer is grammatically correct, pick the one which sounds most natural.
karaarra buusu
What did Rob say in Activity 1?Question 3 of 6
Gargaarsa
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Try out your haggling language in this quiz. If more than one answer is grammatically correct, pick the one which sounds most natural.
karaarra buusu
You need a phrasal verb.Question 4 of 6
Gargaarsa
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Try out your haggling language in this quiz. If more than one answer is grammatically correct, pick the one which sounds most natural.
karaarra buusu
Have a look at the examples in Activity 1.Question 5 of 6
Gargaarsa
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Try out your haggling language in this quiz. If more than one answer is grammatically correct, pick the one which sounds most natural.
karaarra buusu
The seller is agreeing to sell at £50.Question 6 of 6
Excellent! Great job! Carraa badaa! Qabxii argatte:
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