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How To Talk About Shopping and Buying in English ✔
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Apr 9, 2025
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hello my name is Kristen welcome to
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learn English with be Global and in
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today's lesson we are going to talk
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about shopping and buying so I'd like to
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start with the types of places that we
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might shop or buy things at I know that
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I love to shop and typically on a daily
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BAS basis every day of Our Lives we need
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to go to a store to get things to buy
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things for ourselves for our family or
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our friends so first I'd like to start
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by going through a list of some of the
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places that maybe we shop at on a daily
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basis first one would be the grocery
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store the grocery store has all of our
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food items vegetables bread fruit milk
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eggs it's a store that has everything
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that you would need to go into your
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kitchen to cook your food on a daily
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basis the supermarket is like the
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grocery store but usually it's much
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larger so in a supermarket you would
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have all of the food items that you need
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to survive off of but in addition to the
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food there's also going to be everything
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that you would need for the bathroom
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your toilet paper your paper towels all
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of your cleaning supplies there will be
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um items for your own use for the
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bathroom maybe deodorant or hairspray um
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basically anything that you need to help
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get you through your day for
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yourself they would have at the
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supermarket so it's kind of a One-Stop
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shop is one of the ways that we
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say and what that means is you can make
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one stop and get everything you need at
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the supermarket typically the
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supermarket won't have a large selection
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of any clothing items they may have some
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undershirts under t-shirts or socks or
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possibly some underwear but for the most
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part it's most mostly just those Staples
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of food groceries and anything you might
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need to keep the house clean or to use
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in your bathroom those kinds of items
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that you
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need next on here I have the liquor
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store or sometimes it's called a
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convenience store those are typically
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really small and yes they do have liquor
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so there might be beer and wine or hard
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alcohol as well meaning vodka or tequila
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but they also carry little snacks um
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other drinks lots of water or milk
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orange juice different types of soda if
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you wanted Coke or seven up there's
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there's all sorts of drinks a large
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variety of beverages for you to drink as
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well as little things to snack on and
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usually they will have a small section
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that has some items that you might need
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for convenience such as deodorant or a
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sewing kit or something that you might
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find that you left at home like your
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toothbrush or toothpaste or something
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like that but if you really need to find
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an item that you know you're missing and
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you need badly it's always better to
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check a grocery store or a supermarket
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before the convenience store because
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they don't always have the same
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things now the drugstore is a is a wide
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term because a drugstore typically is
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also a pharmacy but we also have
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pharmacies that are truly only
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pharmacies whereas a drugstore will have
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a pharmacy where you can get your
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medications that your doctor has given
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you but then it's also going to have a
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wide variety of items that you might
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find at a convenience store but it's a
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much larger selection so you can go to a
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drug store and you can usually find
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everything that you would need for the
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bathroom you can usually get any lots of
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different types of beverages as well as
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food items they are usually more EXP
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expensive if you are shopping at a drug
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store for food items then they might be
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at a grocery store because it's more of
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a convenience that you're able to go to
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the drugstore you can pick up your
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medications and then you can also get
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some things that you need for the home I
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will say this though they do have great
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sales at the drug stores and we will be
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talking about the word sale in a
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minute another place is a department
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store and a department store is exactly
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the way that it sounds it is a store
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that is separated into different
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departments so when you walk in you'll
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have the women's Department there'll be
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a men's department a children's
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Department a lot of times there's a home
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department and typically it's mostly
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clothing shoes and things for your
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home the mall which is one of my
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favorites a mall or a shopping mall is a
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place that you can go that is one big
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building either inside or sometimes
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outside that has several different types
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of shops and stores all in one
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location so when you know you need lots
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of things maybe you need a new pair of
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shoes and you also need a dress and
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you're looking for a purse maybe there's
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not one department store that you want
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to go to for all of those things if you
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want to have different options you can
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go to the mall and then check out all
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the different stores that are there to
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find what it is that you
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want and then of course there are
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individual you know if there's a shoe
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store obviously a shoe store sells shoes
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there's toy stores a toy store would
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sell toys so there are some individual
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stores as well that sell only those
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items that you're looking for and then
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just a few other places that we go to on
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a regular basis is the gas station the
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gas station is where you take your car
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to fill it up with fuel so that you can
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drive it so we go to the gas station
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pretty regularly to make sure that we
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can continue to drive our
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cars a restaurant is where you would go
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to sit down and have a meal with friends
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or family a diner or a cafe is just less
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formal than maybe a restaurant so the
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food is a little bit more relaxed the
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people are a little bit more relaxed
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reled and it's more
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casual and then the most casual is fast
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food which unfortunately is very popular
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here in America but it is not very good
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for you so fast food is somewhere that
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is very inexpensive that you just walk
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up you can order you food you can eat it
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there or you can take it with you and
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most fast food places even have
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drive-throughs so you can take your car
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drive through and make your food
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purchase and then be on your way so
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these these are just this is just a list
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of a few common things that we may use
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on a daily basis as we are thinking
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about shopping and buying so today I
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want to take you on a virtual shopping
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trip with me so I need to go shopping
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and the first thing that I need to think
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of as I'm going on my shopping trip is
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my
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budget so what is a budget now your
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budget is how much money you have to
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spend on any given thing so some people
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will take their entire budget and break
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it down in what they have to spend on
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bills what they have to spend on their
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food what they have to spend on anything
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it all just goes right into the budget
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so today we're going to talk about my
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budget for what I need and right now I
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need a pair of pants a pair of shoes and
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a sweater a sweater is kind of a thick
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long sleeve shirt because it's starting
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to get colder and I want to make sure
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that I'm warm so I want to get those
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three things and I need to make sure
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that I create a budget and according to
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my budget I have about
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$150 for my budget for shopping so let's
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talk about a couple different things
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that people might say about a budget you
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might hear on a tight
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budget and if you're on a tight budget
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that means you only have a certain
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amount of money to spend you can't go
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over it and you can't go under it you
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have to stay right there within your
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budget cuz you're on a tight budget
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maybe somebody will say
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sky is the
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limit if sky is the limit that means
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that you can spend as much as you want
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because the sky is the limit it doesn't
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matter how much you spend because you
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have plenty of money for your shopping
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vacation that you're taking now another
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way that we can say that is shopping
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spree when you are given a shopping
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spree or you go on a shopping spree that
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means that you can get anything you
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want I would love to be given a shopping
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spre so for the shopping
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spree that can be let's say me and a
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friend are going out and we'll put our
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my shopping that I need for my clothing
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aside and let's just talk about maybe
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going to lunch so so a friend and I are
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going to lunch there's a couple
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different ways that this may happen if
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you are out with a friend and one of the
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things I might say is this one's on me
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or this is my
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treat that means that I'm going to pay
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for this I'm offering to take care of
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this meal for us this one is on me it is
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my treat I'm another thing that you
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might say is let's go
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dutch and that means that we are each
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going to pay for
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ourselves so if we if we decide to go
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dutch that means I pay for my meal and
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she pays for her meal so it's going to
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be separate does that make
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sense so those are just a few different
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things that happen when we're talking
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about budget and how we're going to pay
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for things now let's go on to my list so
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as I said I'm making my shopping list
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and I wanted to get a pair of
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pants a pair of
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shoes and a
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sweater now it's important when you're
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shopping that you go to the right place
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to be able to get all of these things
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and of course my favorite place to go to
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have a great selection of items is the
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all so that's where I'll be going to try
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and find these things and what I want to
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look at is I want to make sure that I
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have the right
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size size is how something
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fits in America sometimes we have small
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medium or large and other times it's
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using a number system I know that I have
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found personally that sometimes even
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though sizes don't make sense so you
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should always look at the item and if
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you really like it try it on first just
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to
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see another important thing is
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quality is it wellmade does it look like
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it's going to fall apart or do you think
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it will last me a long time because I
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want something that's going to last a
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long time but I don't need something
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that's name brand
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name
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brand means that it has a designer
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attached to it and typically if there is
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a design designer name attached to the
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tag or the label of the piece of
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clothing it makes it tremendously more
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expensive so if you can learn to avoid
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the name
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brands which I would call off
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Brands if you use an offbrand
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you can save some money and it will
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still be a great quality
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item so we have to look at size we have
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to look at quality and then of course we
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have to look at the
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price the price is important because you
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need to know how much something costs
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before you purchase it and whether or
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not it might be on sale
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or have a
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discount so I might ask someone that
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works in a store how much is this
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sweater what is the price of this
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sweater or how much does this sweater
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cost and she can tell me oh that sweater
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is
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$30 or she may say today we are having a
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sale and there is a
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discount on the sweater that you
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like so it's 25% off of the price that's
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on the
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tag sometimes those sale prices will be
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on the item and other times the sale
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price will be taken off when you go to
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purchase the item so if you're not sure
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always ask you can say is this sweater
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on sale how much will it cost and then
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they will tell
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you sometimes there may be a buy one get
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one
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free and in that case that means that I
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get two sweaters but I only pay for one
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I buy one sweater I get another sweater
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for free so that's another type of sale
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or discount or sometimes they may call
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it a
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promotion so now it comes to purchasing
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my
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items I have found the things that I
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need I have stayed within my budget and
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now I'm ready to
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pay so when it comes time for me to pay
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my money I will go up to the counter
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where the salesperson works and I will
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give her the
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items him or her the items so I will go
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to the salesperson I will hand her or
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him my items that I want to purchase and
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then she will ring them
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up that means
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that she is going to take each of the
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items and log in how much they cost
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either with a scanner or by hand she
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will ring them up and then she will tell
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me what the total cost is once I have
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that total cost I can then choose to pay
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with
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cash cash is always accepted there are
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some places in very small shops that
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will only accept cash but mostly
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especially at a mall they will also
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accept your credit
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card your credit card can can either
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come from a line of credit that you have
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established that you have to pay back or
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you can also use your debit card
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and that takes money straight from your
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bank over to the store to pay for your
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items you want to make sure after you
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pay that you always get a
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receipt the receipt is going to be your
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recollection and your record of
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everything that you have bought to make
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sure that if there are any problems with
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the items after you leave the store you
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can can go back and usually on that
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receipt it will tell you what their
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return policy
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is you can usually return an item and
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either they will give you store credit
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which means that you get a credit at the
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store to purchase another item or they
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will give you a refund
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if you are thinking at all that you
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might not be happy with your purchase be
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sure to ask about the return policy
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before you purchase your items and make
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sure that you keep your receipt so that
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you are able to bring that back if you
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need to to get your refund or your store
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credit so I hope that all of this is
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great I appreciate you shopping with me
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today I feel like we shopped till we
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dropped that means that we are excited
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and
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tired because we shopped so
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much another way of saying we shopped
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all day we got so many things and now we
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are done so I encourage you to shop till
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you drop I hope that all of these things
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will help you with your English when you
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are shopping or you're buying things
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you may have I look forward to teaching
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you again thank you so much for visiting
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bye
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