Name: Let's Learn English at the Shopping Mall! It's Time for A Field Trip! ???
Uploaded: 2024-03-31T21:01:20.000Z
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So I thought it would be a good idea to make another English lesson at the mall.

I did one of these a few years ago now, but I thought it would be fun to do another one.

And I wanted to start by telling you about three verbs that I use when I talk about the mall.

I might also say, "I'm here today to do some shopping."

You do need the word some in there or you can even use a little bit.

"I'm here today to do a little bit of shopping."

And then, also, in English, we like to use the word "grab" a lot.

I'm not actually going to buy anything, though.

This is I'm just giving those as examples.

But once again, welcome to this English lesson at the mall.

So I'm happy because this mall still has a map of the mall.

You can see a map of the mall up there and a list of all the stores.

Different mall that I was at recently, you have to download an app in order to find stores in the mall.

There's no main entrance in this mall, though.

There's just a lot of entrances like one on every side of the mall, if not more.

So the map of the mall and one of the entrances.

Oh and by the way, mall is actually the short way of saying shopping mall.

So I am right now at a shopping mall in Burlington, Ontario.

If I wanted to speak quickly, though, I would just say, "Right now, I'm at a mall in Burlington, Ontario."

So in North America, we generally refer to all of the places where you can buy things as either stores or shops.

We use those two words interchangeably quite a bit.

I know if you're learning British English, there might be a slight difference between stores and shops.

But this behind me, I would call it a store.

But this down here, let me spin you around.

You look down here, I would call this a kiosk when it's located kind of in the middle part of the mall.

You can see down the middle, there are a number of different kiosks here.

You can buy popcorn and here, you can buy more cases for your cell phone or a cell phone if you need one.

So I thought real quick, we should review the vocabulary we use to talk about different kinds of stores.

This store behind me is a computer store.

This is a place where they sell computers.

This is where you would come if you wanted to buy a new pair of shoes.

You would come to a store like this if you needed to buy a shirt or a skirt or maybe you need a suit, you would definitely come to a clothing store if you needed to buy clothes.

We also still have department stores at our malls.

A department store is a large store that sells pretty much everything.

But if you look over here, you can also buy pots and pans and other things for your kitchen.

So these stores are generally quite big. Department stores generally have everything and usually there's more than one floor.

I think this one has two or three floors.

There's lots of things you could buy here.

So right now I'm going down the escalator.

An escalator is this really cool thing that you can go on when you want to get from one floor to another.

It's kind of like stairs for lazy people.

I remember as a kid the first time I went on an escalator, I actually forgot to take a step at the end and I tripped, but as an adult, I'm pretty good at going up and down the escalator.

So I personally have not done a lot of shopping at a store like this.

You would come to a store like this if you were going to a fancy party or a wedding and you needed to find a dress.

So I have been to a store like this, though.

I have been to jewelry stores not to buy jewelry for myself, but I have bought jewelry for Jen in the past.

This is where you would come if you needed earrings or maybe a necklace, uh or maybe a nice ring.

So at the mall, there are a lot of stores, but the two kinds of stores that I see most often would be clothing stores.

And if you look behind me over here, another shoe store, I find that the majority of the stores at malls in my part of the world are either selling clothing or they're selling shoes.

So the store we're about to go in is one of my favorite stores.

I love coming and seeing what new books have come out recently.

This bookstore in particular is a very, very nice store to shop at.

I've bought many, many books in this bookstore.

So if you are athletic, if you like to play sports, you might want to go to a sporting goods store to buy some shoes or some shorts or other athletic gear.

I'm not sure if that's the name that's used around the world in English.

But in Canada, we would call this a sporting goods store.

You can come here and buy anything you need for playing different sports.

You could buy a basketball, you could buy ice skates.

I'll show you some on the wall right here.

After all, we are in Canada, there are a lot of different ice skates available to be purchased here.

So if you are into sports, if you like playing sports, this would be the store for you.

And if that's the case, you might want to go and find a drug store.

So in Canada, we would call this either a drug store or a pharmacy.

This is a place you would go if a doctor gave you a prescription and you needed to get it filled or maybe you just need something because you have a headache or maybe because you've hurt yourself and you just need some bandages.

When my kids were younger, they loved going to stores like this.

So if you needed to buy puzzles or games or stuffed animals or any other types of toys, this would be a great store to come to.

So, always a favorite with my kids when they were little.

So it doesn't surprise me that this store is closed.

This is what we would have called a record store or a CD store.

This is a place where you could buy music, but people usually don't buy their music that way anymore.

So a store like this used to be very, very popular.

But as you can see, even though the mall is open, this store is closed.

So if you're wondering why there aren't very many people here, it's probably because I'm here on a Monday afternoon.

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Let's Learn English at the Shopping Mall! It's Time for A Field Trip! ???

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