1. Shopping
(Nakupování)

2. Shopping – services
 Types of shops
 Goods
 Small local shops (advantages/disadvantages)
 Big shopping centres (advantages/disadvantages)
 Routine of shopping
 Ways of paying
 Services
 Internet shopping
 Favourite shops/goods

3. What types of shops do you know and what
is possible to buy there?
Big shopping centres (hypermarkets, department
stores)
Small local shops (bakery, dairy, butcher,
greengrocer)
Street marketplaces (Vietnamese market, Chinese
market)

4. What types of shops do you know and what
is possible to buy there?
Specialised shops (electronics, computers,
furniture)
Brand stores (goods of one brand is sold there)
Boutiques (fashionable items and accessories)

6. Types of shops
Example of answer:
When we go shopping, we can go either to a big
shopping centre with huge choice of goods, or to the
shop which specializes in some extra goods, for
example……
We can do our shopping in a big shopping centre, for
example…,a small local shop, for example… or in a
street market. If we want to buy some designer clothes
or accessories, we go to the brand store or a boutique.

7. Types of shops
Bakery
Butcher s
Florist s
Grocer s
Newsagent s
Pharmacy
Pet shop
DIY
Dairy
Clothes shop
Greengrocer s
Confectionery
Bookshop
Drugstore
Shoe shop
Stationer s
Tobacconist

9. Kinds of Goods
At the baker s/bakery we can buy rolls,
croissants, bread, cakes…
At the butcher s we can buy meat
(pork/beef/chicken), salami, ham…
At the grocer s we can buy flour, sugar, salt,
oil, cereals, drinks…
At the greengrocer s we can buy fruit and
vegetables…

10. Kinds of Goods
At the dairy we can buy milk, yogurts, cheese,
eggs…
At the drugstore we can buy soap, shampoo,
tooth brush, tooth paste…
At the florist s we can buy flowers, plants,
flowerpots…

11. Kinds of Goods
At the stationary we can buy pens, pencils,
rubbers…
At the newsagent s we can buy newspapers
and magazines…
At the tobacconist’s we can buy cigarettes,
cigars, lighters…

13. What are the advantages of shopping
in big shopping centres?
We can buy there almost everything from food
to furniture.
Everything is “under one roof”.
There is a huge choice of goods there.

14. What are the advantages of shopping
in in big shopping centres?
The goods is cheaper there.
There are services for customers (restaurants,
toilets…)
There is a big parking place for customers.

15. What are the disadvantages of shopping in
big shopping centres?
There are always a lot of people there, there are long
queues.
It is difficult to find a shop assistant when we need
him.
It is difficult to find a kind of goods we need.
Our shopping takes us a lot of time.
The quality of goods can be low.

17. What are the advantages and the
disadvantages of shopping a small local
shop?
+ In a small local shop or stand the shopkeeper
himself assists us.
+ The shopping is very quick.
- There isn t so big choice of goods.
- The price is usually higher than in a department
store.

19. Can you describe the routine of shopping?
What do you do in a shop?
We go to the shop and pick up a basket or a
trolley.
We walk around the shop and choose what we
want.
If we have everything what we need we go to the
cash-desk/counter.
We pay for all our goods and pack our shopping.

21. How can people pay for their goods? What
are ways of paying?
There are two ways of paying - we can pay cash or
by credit card or cheques.
We pay cash for smaller purchase, if we buy for
example newspapers or rolls.
We pay by credit card if we do a bigger shopping.
Today, people pay by credit card very often, it’s quite
comfortable.

23. Are there any services in big shopping
centres?
There is usually a wide choice of services in shopping
centres, for example:
• Cafés and restaurants
• Fast food stalls
• Automatic teller machine
• Bank branches
• Toilets
• Parking area for customers

25. What do you think about internet
shopping?
Nowadays a lot of people do their
shopping on-line.
They order their goods from a website and
have them delivered.

26. What do you think about internet shopping?
+ We save our time and money when we buy
things on-line.
+ On-line shopping is quick and comfortable.
- We cannot try out products.
- There can be problems with making claims.

28. How often do you go shopping? What
are things you buy most often?
Examples of answers:
I go shopping for food with my mum every
Friday. When I need something to school , I go
shopping to stationary. I like shopping in small
shop and I prefer paying cash.

29. How often do you go shopping? What
are things you buy most often?
Examples of answers:
I don t go shopping because I hate crowds of
people and long queues. When I need to buy
something, I do it on-line.
I love shopping, especially in big shopping
centres. My most favourite shops are bookshops
and shops with electronics.

31. Useful vocabulary
Brand store………………………značkový obchod
Designer clothes ………………...značkové oblečení
Accessories……………………...doplňky
Customer………………………...zákazník
Routine…………………………..postup
Grocery…………………………..prodejna potravin
Confectionery……………………cukrárna
Stationery………………………...papírnictví
DIY/Do It Yourself………………obchod pro kutily
Dairy……………………………..mlékárna

32. Useful vocabulary
Tobacconist……………………prodejna tabáku
Cigar…………………………..doutník
Lighter………………………...zapalovač
Flowerpot……………………...květináč
Huge choice of goods…………obrovský výběr zboží
Services for customers………...služby pro zákazníky
Long queues…………………..dlouhé fronty
Kind of goods………………...druh zboží
Big choice if goods…………...velký výběr zboží
Quality of goods……………....kvalita zboží

33. Useful vocabulary
Shopkeeper…………………majitel obchodu
Basket………………………nákupní košík
Trolley……………………...nákupní vozík
Cash-desk/ Counter………...pokladna
Pay cash…………………….platit v hotovosti
Pay by credit card………......platit kreditní kartou
Purchase…………………….koupě, nákup
Wide choice of service……...široký výběr služeb
Automatic teller machine…...bankomat
Bank branches………………pobočka banky

34. Useful vocabulary
Order…………………………….objednávka
Save……………………………...šetřit
Try out…………………………...vyzkoušet
Make claims……………………..uplatnit reklamaci
Crowds of people………………..davy lidí