Shopping in English: Vocabulary and Tips

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Shopping in English: Vocabulary and Tips

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One of the challenges when learning English is knowing how to handle yourself in all kinds of everyday situations when you are in another country. To make your life as easy as possible, you can learn in advance a series of expressions, phrases and resources that will help you understand your surroundings and ask for what you want. That is why, today we are going to look at vocabulary and tips for shopping in English.


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Shopping in English: Types of Stores
Obviously, the first thing you need to know is what you want to buy and kazakhstan phone number list you are going to buy it. For example, to do your weekly food shopping you have all these options:

The supermarket .
The market , with its different stalls
Specialized stalls: greengrocer’s (vegetarian), fishmonger’s (fishmonger), fruiterer’s (fruit shop), baker’s (bakery), butcher’s (butcher shop…).
If you have late-night munchies , you can go and grab something quick at a convenience store (small stores that stay open late and usually sell food, alcohol, tobacco and other items).

If you want to buy clothes, you can start by visiting a shopping centre, which is called a shopping centre in the UK and a mall in the US. There you will find sections for men 's wear , women's wear and children 's wear . You might also want to visit a shoe shop . And if you just want to look at windows, it is called " to go window shopping."
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