Name: Shopping | British Expressions and Intonation
Uploaded: 2020-10-23T23:47:37.000Z
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I'm here to help you with some useful expressions surrounding shopping.

So how to sound like a native and use, um, great expressions with the right tone when we are shopping.

Now there's lots of different situations where we could be shopping.

And I'm sorry if I've left some situations out.

For example, not everybody goes shopping for a Chewbacca costume or something.

So but just for the most common kind of phrases we might use when we are shopping, let's start.

Onda First thing really is approaching the sales person.

How do we approach a sales person without sounding rude?

For example, if you're a formal person and you want to come across as quite formal and polite simply, all you need to say is excuse May excuse.

What that does is it creates a new, intrigued tone, so it makes us sound like we are asking a question.

So we're not just saying hello or or making ourselves known we're doing this e excuse me to show that we're going to say Mawr on that.

Okay, so it's funny how Internation condense play what's coming next.

But it kind of allows the salesperson to then prepare for what you're going to say next or that you're going to ask a polite question.

You could do what I do, which is still kind of formal.

We say sorry for doing something we haven't done wrong.

We say sorry when we say hello, we say Sorry when we say goodbye.

I've said sorry to a lamppost before because I walked into it.

And again, we're doing this, uh, this kind of tone where we're going down, up on, we're kind of riding the wave again.

So we would have to follow with something.

Could you just help me with something, please?

You have some clothes that you want to try on.

But you don't know where the changing rooms are now.

Firstly, there are two words for changing rooms.

Some people say changing rooms on some people say fitting rooms.

Two ways you can ask about trying something on, you could say, for example, Excuse me.

Where your fitting rooms, Where your fitting rooms or where your changing rooms.

They're both the same kind of thing By asking this question.

Or you could use the much more simple version off a fraser verb to try on which means to where something temporarily, just to see what it looks like.

And that means Can I wear this so I can see what it looks like?

We love Fraser verbs here on this channel on.

Remember, if it's just one T shirt we would say, Could I try this on?

But if it's more than one, we would say, Could I try these on?

And that would be if I have five T shirts and socks and Cem genes to try on okay, on the same with shoes.

We would say these even if it's one pair off shoes.

Now let's say you're looking at some clothes, but they don't have your size.

Very easy approach the sales assistant using those words we mentioned before high or something like that.

All you need to say is, Do you have any more sizes out the back?

Do you have any more sizes out the back again?

That means where you store all your stuff.

So do you have any more sizes out the back really important and really useful to know this one because I've been in a shop so many times where I've needed a particular size and they don't have it on show on the shop floor, but I ask them if they have it out the back and nine times out of 10 they do.

And then they might say, Okay, what size are you looking for?

You could say I need a size up, meaning I need the next size above.

I need a size up if you want to use Fraser verbs and be fancy pants, or you could just say the size you want.

In a man's case, you could say I need a medium so we don't need to say I need a size medium.

We just say I need a medium, everybody's favorite thing, a returns policy.

I never ask it because I don't like to be annoying.

I don't like to be that guy that asks about returns.

So there are two ways, and this one is the most common.

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