Your company sends you to Germany for a year to work and live.  You will bring your family.  There is an unfurnished appartment waiting for you.
What will you need to buy? (Furniture, Clothing, Appliances, Electronics)  What about food?  What are the average prices?  etc. etc.

Use this scenario and the sample resources below to to develop a task for your own students/language.

Quelle

Neckermann

Karstadt

IKEA

Obi

ALDI

LIDL

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