Name: Shopping in English [Advanced Vocabulary]
Uploaded: 2023-08-18T02:01:32.000Z
Duration: 18 min 6 s
Description: Your complete guide to shopping in English. At the end of the year we have Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday — the busiest shopping days of...

Hey, it's Annemarie with Speak Confident English.

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This is exactly where you want to be to get the confidence you want for daily

life and work in English and that is especially true this week if you're a

shopaholic. If you love shopping or even if you don't,

but you're already preparing for the holidays which are coming up in December

then you know we have some pretty big shopping days coming up soon in the United

the busiest and biggest shopping day of the year always happens at the end of

It comes just after our Thanksgiving holiday and Black Friday has also spread to

Then because of the popularity of online shopping, just a few days later,

we have Cyber Monday where you can find huge discounts and deals when you're

shopping online. Now I have to admit, I don't love shopping.

Being in a crowded shopping mall is overwhelming and usually stressful for me,

so I tend to shop online or I love shopping at small local stores where I live.

Thankfully about 10 years ago in the United States,

we also started Small Business Saturday .

This is an opportunity to support and shop at local stores and boutiques where

you live and I love supporting local businesses.

All of that means we have three massive shopping days coming up at the end of

So if you're planning to take advantage of some of those discounts and go

I want you to know exactly what you're going to hear when you're shopping in

English and what you should be prepared to say when you're shopping in English.

But before we get started, if shopping isn't for you,

if you're overwhelmed or you dislike the idea of all this consumption,

I have one more day for you to think about.

After Cyber Monday, we have Giving Tuesday.

Giving Tuesday is a global effort to focus less on consumption and more on

supporting organizations that help people and other important causes around the

If you love the idea of giving money to an organization that helps others.

I'll leave a link just below this video so you can learn everything you need

about Giving Tuesday and I'll also give you a popular alternative at the end of

this lesson if you want to avoid all the Black Friday craziness.

Before we dive in to everything you need to know about shopping in English,

I have to pause here and give kudos to someone in our Confident English

Last week I got an email from Teresa who's part of our Confident English

She's been watching videos on the Speak Confident English channel for about two

months now and I want to share with you what she said in her email.

Teresa said, there are a couple of things that I love about your videos.

One is the way that you speak just a bit slower than normal so that it's easy

It feels like my brain finally matches my mouth.

I feel empowered to express my thoughts clearly.

The second reason is your video content. You cover the most practical,

real and ready to use English speaking materials so that we non native speakers

can jump right into any English speaking situation.

It feels like you are showing us a variety of maps to different locations so

All we have to do is study the different maps, start walking,

that is one of the most amazing emails I've ever received.

I've read it every day for the last week.

It puts a smile on my face every single morning and it makes me feel so happy to

know that you feel that way and there's a couple of things I want to say.

Number one, I do have a lot of students who say,

I seem to speak slower than normal. To be honest with you,

the way that I speak in my videos here isn't that different from how I speak in

I truly believe that fluency is about clear communication.

it's about giving people the ability to understand you and making sure that you

This is exactly what I help students do in my Fluency School courses as well and

I love that the way I communicate is helpful to you and it gives you the ability

to feel empowered and to express yourself more easily.

The second thing is I love that you feel my lessons are practical and useful.

Your description of my lessons being like a map and all you have to do is read

and climbing is the best analogy I've ever heard and I definitely want to

continue providing those kinds of lessons to you in the future. So Teresa,

thank you so much for sharing your thoughts with me and taking the time to send

that email. I absolutely loved it. All right,

now let's dive in to the complete guide to what you need to know about shopping

in English. Here's exactly what we're going to talk about in this lesson today.

First, what are some of the questions you might hear from a shopkeeper or sales

Then how do you respond to those questions? Number three,

what to say when you're looking for something specific.

When you can't find what you're looking for or maybe you want to try something

we're going to talk about the difference between things that are on sale,

things that are on clearance and other words that you'll often see related to

the last thing that we'll talk about is what do you need to say and what will

you often hear if you need to return or exchange an item.

but I promise it'll get you ready for all those shopping days in English.

Let's dive in with that first topic on what you are likely to hear when you

enter a store and how you should respond in English.

you'll often hear a sales assistant or shopkeeper say, hi,

how are you doing today? Yes, they are asking how are you doing?