At the Market: Trading Words

🎯 What You'll Learn

You will learn English words used at the market when people buy and sell things.

🌟 Let's Start

Amina goes to Balogun Market in Lagos with her mother every Saturday. The market is busy and colourful! People are buying tomatoes, selling clothes, and counting money. The market is a great place to learn new words.

📚 New Concept

Market words:

• Buy — to give money and get something
• Sell — to give something and receive money
• Money — Naira and kobo, what you use to pay
• Price — how much something costs
• Cheap — when the price is low
• Expensive — when the price is high
• Customer — a person who buys things
• Trader — a person who sells things

Using market words in sentences:

• "Mama wants to buy tomatoes at the market."
• "The trader said the price is 500 Naira."
• "That bag is too expensive, let us find a cheap one."

🎮 Let's Practice

1. If you give money and get rice, are you buying or selling?
2. What is the word for the person who sells things at the market?
3. Fill in the blank: "The ___ of the mango is 100 Naira."

Click to see answers

1. You are buying — you give money and get something.
2. The person who sells things is called a trader.
3. "The price of the mango is 100 Naira."

💡 Remember

At the market, traders sell and customers buy. Everything has a price. Some things are cheap and some are expensive!