Language Development

The Market Price

Language: Buy or Sell an Item

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At the Farmers’ Market Every day, my customers say, “How many apples are in a bag?” Every day my customers say, “How much does one bag cost?” “How many? How much?” is all I hear. I answer a hundred times, “Three dollars, please, for a bag of twelve. In bills or quarters or dimes.” Every day my customers say, “How much does one bag cost?” I put a tag on every bag, But the tags keep getting lost!

At the Farmers’ Market
Every day, my customers say,
“How many apples are in a bag?”
Every day my customers say,
“How much does one bag cost?”
“How many? How much?” is all I hear.
I answer a hundred times,
“Three dollars, please, for a bag of twelve.
In bills or quarters or dimes.”
Every day my customers say,
“How much does one bag cost?”
I put a tag on every bag,
But the tags keep getting lost!

Questions

Use how many to ask about things you can count.

How many apples are in a bag?

How many bags can I buy for $6.00?

Use how much to ask about a price.

How much do the apples cost?

How much are the apples?

Express Yourself

BUY OR SELL AN ITEM

Work with a partner. Act out a scene at a farmers’ market. One partner buys and one partner sells the food shown below.

    Example

  • 1. Buyer: How much are the apples?

    Seller: They are $3.00 a bag.

  • 1.

    apples$3.00 for a bag

    apples
    $3.00 for a bag

  • 2.

    green peppers3 for $1.00

    green peppers
    3 for $1.00

  • 3.

    carrots50¢ per pound

    carrots
    50¢ per pound

  • 4.

    lettuce$1.00 each

    lettuce
    $1.00 each

5.–8. With a partner, imagine you are setting up a farmers’ market. Use questions with how many and how much to decide which foods you will sell and how much foods cost.

    Example

  • 5. How much are the apples?

    They are $3.00 a bag.