Shopping and services Talk about: - Different kinds of shops  - Shopping facilities in Slovakia - Your attitude to shopping: - do you like/dislike shopping - trademark shops - Christmas shopping - catalogue shopping

Shop is a place where we can buy things /where things are sold/ Shop is a place where we can buy things /where things are sold/.   DIFFERENT KINDS OF SHOPS: We know these kinds of shops: - the baker’s – pekáreň - the bucher’s - mäsiarstvo - the greengrocer’s – ovocie a zelenina - the chemist’s - drogéria - the florist’s - kvetinárstvo - the jeweller’s - klenotníctvo - the ironmonger’s - železiarstvo - the newsagent’s – novinový stánok - a boutique – butik - a clothes shop – obchod s oblečením - a toy shop – obchod s hračkami - a bookshop – kníhkupectvo - a shoe shop – obuv - a groceries – potraviny - a pharmacy – lekáreň - a pet shop – obchod s domácimi zvieratami - a furniture shop – obchod s nábytkom - household goods – domáce potreby - stationery - papiernictvo

SHOPPING FACILITIES IN SLOVAKIA

In Slovakia we can do our shopping in these shopping facilities: - a SHOPPING CENTRE – for example AUPARK, EUROVEA and POLUS CITY CENTRER in Bratislava. Shopping centre is a large building with many smaller shops in it. Shopping centers offer many additional services – there are banks, post offices, travel agencies, a swimming pool, cafés, restaurants and cinemas and so on. - a DEPARTMENT STORE – for example TESCO. Department store is a large store divided into several big sections – each section sells different types of things – for example clothes, furniture, household appliances and so on. It has a car park and is situated in bigger cities and towns. Some of them are opened non-stop.  Shopping in a department store has many advantages: -  you can buy everything under one roof -  they usually offer lower prices -  they often offer sales and bargains -  you can use a big shopping trolley to take your shopping to your car - a SUPERMARKET – they are situated in cities and towns. People go to the supermarket to buy mostly food and drinks. It is smaller than a department store and usually offers fewer goods. It has longer opening hours than small shops. 

a small SHOP - they usually have shorter opening hours than supermarkets, department stores and shopping centers. Small shops usually sell food or other things – for example you can buy books in a bookshop, shoes in a shoe shop and so on. People who work in a shop are shop assistants – they sell things and serve customers. Shop assistants in small villages and towns usually know their customers.   Some shops and most department stores have store detectives who watch customers to stop them from shoplifting.  a MARKET – many people prefer to buy the fruit and vegetables or other things at a market. Markets are popular because of their special atmosphere – they are noisy, overcrowded but people can walk from stall to stall, they can touch and taste products and talk to the salesmen. They can try to bargain and get a reduced price. In Slovakia, products bought in markets are often cheaper than products bought in shops and supermarkets.

CATALOUGE SHOPPING

The advantages of buying things from a catalogue are: -  you don’t have to go to the shop -  you can do the shopping comfortably from your house -  there is a better choice of goods The disadvantages are: -  you can’t try the things on -  you can’t touch the things to see what material they are made of -  it is more difficult and more expensive to return the goods if you don’t like it (because you have to pay for postage) I like catalogue shopping because it is comfortable, but I don’t like when I have to return the goods /tovar/ because it is different from that on the picture in the catalogue.  

Questions: 1. Do you like shopping? 2. Where do you usually buy food, clothes or shoes? 3. What kind of services do you use most often? 4. What are shopping malls? 5. What can you buy at the grocer’s/ baker’s/ batcher’s/ chemist’s? 6. How can we pay for goods or services? 7. What is the „mortgage“? 8. Who does shopping in your family? 9. Define consumer society 10. What do shops do to make you spend more money? 11. Does advertising influence you when shopping? 12. Name the advantages and disadvantages of credits cards. 13. What are the most common closing or open hours of shops? 14. Does it help to shop with a shopping list? 15. Do you know any famous British shops? 16. Do you like shopping via the internet? 17. What services do people use apart from shops?

A consumer is someone who uses a product A consumer is someone who uses  a product.  A consumer society is a society in which material goods are very imporatnat and consumers are also very important and have a lot of power. Nowdays, people have more money to spend but also less time to spend it. If we need to borrow money, the bank can give us a loan. If the bank lends us money for building a house or buying a flat the money is called a mortgage. A shopping mall is a large indoor shopping centre with different types of shops, cinemas, wellness centres, bowling centres. They also have cafés, snack bars, restaurants, where people can relax after doing shopping or meet their friends and have a cup of coffee, tea, wine. They are open late in the evening and on weekends, too. Various kinds of fresh bread,rolls, buns and cakes can be bought at the baker’s. Butcher’s sell fresh canned or frozen meat and meat products as salami, ham, sausages. Fresh vegetables and all kinds of fruit can be bought at the greengrocer’s.The chemist’s is a specialised shop where people can buy medicines but also cosmetics. The most famous department store in the UK is probably Harrods, in addition House of Fraser, Marks and Spencers and Debenhams are three of the largest department stores in the UK.

YOUR ATTITUDE TO SHOPPING