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HOTS (Critical Thinking)
Shopping malls are becoming popular in our country. Why?

Skill Based Questions

A. Discuss in group about the process in which a product moves from the producer to the consumer.
(Discussion Based)
B. Many leading companies have started retail outlets to sell consumer items. How are they helpful for the
buyers? (Evidence Based Thinking)

Learning by Doing Experiential Learning

Talk to a vendor around your locality and ask him/her about the problems that they face while trying to sell their
goods. Share your inputs with the rest of the class and try helping the vendor by providing some pendent solution.

Nurture the Values Life Skills
• Imagine that you are an architect who has been approached by a big businessman to design a supermarket.
Design a layout of the supermarket showing the placement of various commodities.
• Make a list of five items of daily use. Write down the prices at which these items are sold in your neighbourhood
grocery store. Also write down the prices at which these items are sold in the nearest wholesale market. Do you
notice any difference?

Think Before You Write Cognitive Skills

Read the text below and decide which word best fits in each space.
In practically any country in the _________________, you are _________________ to find a market somewhere.

Markets have been with us since _________________ times, and arose wherever people needed to exchange the
goods they produced. For example, a farmer might have exchanged a cow for tools. But just as times have

_________________, so have market practices. So, _________________ in early times the main activity
_________________ with markets would have been "bartering" –in _________________ words exchanging goods-

today most stall-holders wouldn't be too _________________ on accepting potatoes as payment, for instance,
instead of cash.

In contrast, what might be a common _________________ in a modern market in some countries is a certain amount
of "haggling", where customer and seller eventually _________________ on a price, after what can sometimes be

quite a heated debate. However, behaviour which is _________________ in a market in one country may not be
acceptable in another. Even within one country, there may be some markets where you could haggle quite

_________________ and others where it would be _________________ not to try!

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