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Grade 2 · Unit 7 · Mi Escuela y Mi Comunidad

En el Mercado
At the Market

The unit where money, food, and politeness collide: a running market role-play where students buy, sell, and bargain in Spanish.

🎯 Novice Mid (emerging)📚 3 lessons planned🚧 Lessons in production

Unit objectives

  • Run a full market exchange: greet, ask price, buy, thank
  • Use numbers to 100 for realistic prices
  • Ask for quantities: un kilo de manzanas

Can-Do targets

  • I can ask how much something costs.
  • I can buy something politely from start to finish.
  • I can say something is expensive or cheap.

Vocabulary scope

¿cuánto cuesta?, cuesta… pesos, muy caro, barato, un kilo, quisiera, aquí tiene, el cambio, la fruta, la verdura

How this unit builds

Everything converges: Unit 4 numbers, Unit 6 food, Kindergarten politeness — assembled into the year’s richest role-play.

Planned lessons

What this unit will contain

Lessons are produced in the same fully interactive format as Kindergarten — flashcards with audio, games, listening tasks, and take-home activities — and will unlock here as they are finished.

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Lesson 1

¿Cuánto cuesta? — prices

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Lesson 2

En el puesto — running a stall

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Lesson 3

El gran mercado — market day

Cultural connection

Market day

The mercado is the beating heart of towns across Latin America — pyramids of fruit, shouted prices, and vendors who know every customer. Students build their own.