1. Shopping, adverts

2. Answer these questions:
Do you like shopping? Why?
How much time do you spend on shopping?
What are your favourite shops in your area and why?
Which shops do you dislike?
What do you think about quality/choice/prices of goods?
What is window shopping? Do you like it?

3. Shops and goods grocery/grocer’s haberdashery greengrocer’s
stationery
bookshop
clothes shop
shoe shop
music shop
off-licence
butcher’s
baker’s
toy shop
chemist’s
haberdashery
fishmonger’s
ironmonger’s
jeweller’s
newsagent’s
sports shop

4. Vocabulary:
self-service shop, stall, (open-air) market, supermarket, hypermarket, shopping mall,…
trolley, basket, counter, till/cash desk, shopping window, opening hours
buy, order, stand in a queue, pay, choose…
customer, shop assistant, salesman, store manager, cashier
price, price tag, discount/sale, notes, coins, change, credit card, cash, shopping list
complain, make a complaint, faulty/ functionless product/goods
guarantee, guarantee certificate, be under a guarantee, refund, replacement

5. Answer these questions:
Do you prefer shopping
in a shopping mall or
small local shops?
What other activities can you do in a shopping mall?
How can an increase of huge shopping centres influence local shops / life in
smaller towns like Hlinsko?
What do you think about the
future of smaller shops?

6. Compare these pictures
Which kind of shops do you prefer?

7. Compare these pictures
What are advantages and disadvantages of both ways of shopping?

8. Adverts
Commercials
Posters
Leaflets
Classifieds
Billboards

9. Adverts What makes a good advert? Why is advert good for the producer?
Where can the adverts be seen?
What do you think about commercials? (the length, the amount, the influence on the spectators)
What language is used in adverts?

10. Adverts slogan, logo, brand, make, sell, promote
eye-catching, pushy, unique, spectacular, silly, funny, impressive, …