Empower B1 3A pages 28 and 29

Money and Shopping Vocabulary

MADE BY TEACHER KOWALSKY

Open Ended

WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU BOUGHT?

Common Shopping Vocabulary

Trivia: Did you know that understanding common shopping vocabulary can help you navigate foreign markets? Here are some essential terms to know:

• Bargain: Negotiating for a lower price

• Discount: A reduction in price

• Return: Bringing back a purchased item

• Receipt: Proof of purchase

​SHOPPING

​Basket

​Self-service

(checkout)

​customer

​fitting room receipt

​Cash (register) sale salesperson shelves

​shopping bag shopping cart

Match

Match the following

• an amount of money that is borrowed, often from a bank, and has to be paid back, usually together with an extra amount of money that you have to pay as a charge for borrowing

• a reduction in the usual price

• an occasion when goods are sold at a lower price than usual

• something on sale at a lower price than its true value

Money

loan

discount

on sale

bargain

• Money

• loan

• discount

• on sale

• bargain

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1. How likely are you to borrow​

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from family or

friends to buy something expensive? Why?



2 How easy is it for young people in your country to get

a​

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from a bank to buy something expensive?



3 Is it fair that some shops offer customers a small ​

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(10-20%) to encourage them to shop there?

Why / Why not?



4 Do you save up for a big ​

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so you can buy a lot of

things at a cheap price? Why / Why not?



5 How does it make you feel when you find a really good ​

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in the sales?

Open Ended

When do shops have sales in your country? When is the biggest sales season?

SALES MADNESS AROUND THE WORLD!

Every year in late November, shoppers in the USA rush to shops and jump online for the Black Friday sales. Now Black Friday madness is spreading all around the world.

In 2010, Amazon introduced Black Friday to online shoppers in the UK. Stores and shops were quick to copy Amazon and now Black Friday is the biggest shopping day in the UK bigger than Boxing Day (26 December), the traditional sales day in the UK. Shoppers sometimes fight to get a bargain and stores have to call the police.

In China there arc also November sales like Black Friday, called ‘Singles Day’ - a day that is aimed at young people who aren’t married. In 2009, the Chinese online shop Alibaba turned Singles Day into a huge online sale. It is now bigger than Black Friday with sales of more than S30 billion dollars.

ANSWERS:

Mostly a: You are a big spender. You spend a lot of money without thinking. Maybe you need to start to plan your spending a bit better.

Mostly b: You are a smart spender. You spend money, but you do it carefully. You find all the sales. But you don’t buy things that you don’t need!

Mostly c: You are a non-spender. You don’t like spending, and you only do it when you really have to.

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3.02 Listen to shop assistants Mike and Kathie talk to a radio journalist, Janie. Who did these things? Write Mike (M) or Kathie (K).

1​​

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worked on sales day for the first time.

2​ ​

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talked to people who were disappointed.

3 ​ ​

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helped someone who said they weren’t feeling well.​ ​

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3.02 Listen again. Are the sentences true (T) or false (F)

1. Mike’s day was much busier than in other years. ​

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2. The guy who waited all night bought two expensive T-shirts.​

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3. Kathie put some sale items in the old lady’s shopping basket. ​

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4. Kathie helped the old lady get to the electronics department. ​

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5. The man who wanted jeans queued at the wrong door. ​

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