Name: ______________________ Date: __________ Station: ______

Lesson 5.12, two days. Day 1 is pages 1 and 2. Day 2 is pages 3 to 5. Every price on this handout is a realistic 2026 figure written for class, marked [update], and not a real store's price today.

Word bank: price, quality, shipping, return, size, seam, stitch, label
Turkish: fiyat, kalite, kargo, iade, beden, dikiş yeri, dikiş, etiket
Portuguese: preço, qualidade, frete, devolução, tamanho, costura, ponto, etiqueta
Spanish: precio, calidad, envío, devolución, talla, costura, puntada, etiqueta

Page 1. Day 1: the four kinds of places you can buy clothes

Fill one box for each kind of place. One advantage, one risk.

Page 2. Day 1: the four quality checks

Run all four checks on the sweatshirt at your station. Write what you find. Check the box if the answer is a good one.

My guess at the price of garment ___ : $__________ [update]

The real price: $__________ Vendor type: ______________________

Was I close? ______ What surprised me: ________________________________

Hidden costs of buying online

Build the landed cost from the packing slip the teacher passes around.

The five hidden costs: shipping, return shipping, a restocking or return fee, sizing risk (you cannot try it on), and time.

The hidden cost I think matters most is ______________________ because ________________________________

Page 3. Day 2: the price and spec sheet, eight items

All eight are plain pullover hooded sweatshirts unless the notes say otherwise. Prices marked [update].

Screen the items against your buyer

Page 4. Day 2: the three buyer cards

Your station gets one card. Read it out loud. Underline the three limits: money, time, and size.

Buyer Card 1: Ana, one sweatshirt to last two winters

Ana is in seventh grade. She walks to school, about fifteen minutes each way. She wants one sweatshirt she can wear four or five days a week from October through March, for two years. She washes it about once a week.

• Money: she has $50 saved [update] and she would rather not spend all of it.
• Time: no deadline, but she wants it before the weather turns.
• Size: adult M. She has stopped growing quickly.
• Other: nobody in her house can drive to a store to make a return, and she does not want to pay return shipping.
• What she cares about most: that it still looks and feels good in the second winter.

Buyer Card 2: The Okonkwo family, buying for three kids

Three kids, ages 7, 10, and 13. All three need a sweatshirt. The cold week starts next Monday.

• Money: $60 total for all three [update].
• Time: they need all three by Monday, which is five days from today.
• Sizes: Youth M (age 7), Youth L (age 10), adult S (age 13).
• Other: the 7-year-old will grow out of anything within about a year. The 13-year-old cares what it looks like. Whoever shops has a car and can return things in person.
• What they care about most: three sweatshirts, on three kids, by Monday, without going over $60.

Buyer Card 3: Dev, a specific look for one event

Dev is in eighth grade and is performing in the school talent show in three weeks. He wants the printed cropped style in this season's color, the one everybody is wearing right now, for the show. He will probably wear it a few more times after.

• Money: $30 [update].
• Time: three weeks, but he wants to try it on and be sure at least a few days before.
• Size: S.
• Other: the look matters more to him than the fabric weight. He knows it will not last for years and he is fine with that.
• What he cares about most: that it is the right style and color, and that it arrives in time to be sure.
• * *

Page 5. Day 2: the recommendation poster and the defense

Copy this onto the chart paper. Everybody at the station signs it.

Our buyer is: ______________________

We recommend item: ______

Total our buyer pays, including shipping and tax: $__________ [update]

Quality reason 1: ________________________________________________

Quality reason 2: ________________________________________________

One hidden cost we accepted or avoided: ________________________________________________

Second-best item and why it lost: ________________________________________________

Signed: ______________________________________________________

Sentence frames

• We recommend item ___ for ___ because ___.
• The total is $___ , which is under the buyer's limit of $___ .
• Item ___ has ___ stitches per inch and ___ seams, which means ___.
• We avoided the hidden cost of ___ by ___.
• Item ___ lost because ___.

Questions we will ask the other stations

Write one question for each of the other two stations before they present.

Station ___ : ________________________________________________

Station ___ : ________________________________________________

Closing line

The item I recommended was ______. If my buyer had twice the money, I would have said ______ instead, because ________________________________.

Teacher key

Page 1, the four kinds of places

Accept any reasonable advantage and risk. The intended set:

Page 2, the four quality checks

Good results: (1) no gap, no thread showing, the seam does not open; (2) heavier is generally more durable, and for a sweatshirt about 9 oz or more is heavy; (3) 10 to 12 stitches per inch is good, 8 or fewer is low; (4) a good label gives fiber content percentages, care instructions, and a country, and there is a brand label.

Landed cost: whatever the packing slip says. The teaching point is that the listed price is never the number.

Page 3, the screen

The eight items against the three buyers. Accept any correct screen with the limit named.

Best answers, with the reasoning that earns full credit:

• Card 1: item F ($8.00, 100% cotton, about 11 oz, 11 stitches per inch, size M, no returns needed because she can try it on in the shop) is the best value, and item C ($44.95) is the best answer for a buyer who wants a guarantee and a return policy. Both are defensible. A station that recommends A or H has not handled "two winters."
• Card 2: item B for the two youngest ($19.99) plus item A for the 13-year-old ($12.99) totals $32.98 before tax, well under $60, all available today. Accept C for the 13-year-old only if the total stays under $60 (it does: $19.99 plus $44.95 = $64.94, which does not, so this is a good place to make them do the math). Any online item fails the Monday deadline.
• Card 3: item H ($24.99 plus $4.99 shipping = $29.98) is the only item that is the right style, and it arrives in time. The defense has to handle the cracking print and the 14-day return window.

The hard question for any station recommending G or H: "Your buyer needs it Monday. Your item ships in 12 to 20 days. Answer that."

Page 5

Scored complete, partial, or missing for daily work. A complete poster names the buyer, one item, a total, two quality reasons, one hidden cost, and a runner-up with a reason, and is signed by everyone at the station.