Let’s Go Shopping

LET’S GO SHOPPING

EFL Pre-Intermediate

04/10/23 A.Petkoska SEOU Gostivar, Gostivar 1

MACEDONIA STREET, SKOPJE


What is the main shopping street in your town?What can you buy there that's special?


What are some of the famous brands and products that you can buy in many countries of the world? Think of clothes, food, cars ....

Make a list. Work in groups and choose the most famous three. Compare your list with the class.

What do you think?


Have you ever bought any of these products?


Street Town Store Product

Oxford Street

Champs-Elysees

Fifth Avenue

Via Montenapoleone

Milano

New York

London

Paris

Gucci

Tiffany's

Marks and Spencer

Guerlain

leather goods

jewellery

underwear jumpers

perfume

2. Match a famous shopping street with a town, a store, and a product.


5TH AVENUE, NEW YORK


TIFFANY, Fifth Avenue NEW YORK


OXFORD STREET, LONDON


MARKS &SPENCER, Oxford StreetLONDON


VIA MONTENALONE STREET, MILANO


GUCCI, Via Montenapoleone MILAN


CHAMPS-ELYSEES STREET, PARIS


GUERLAIN, Champs-Elysees PARIS


The best shopping street in the worldNo, isn’t Oxford Street, the Champs-Elysées, or even Fifth Avenue. A new survey shows that the most popular shopping street in the world is… Nowy Swiat. Where’s that? In Warsaw, Poland, of course.

3 Here is the headline and the introduction of the newspaper article.

Does anything surprise you?



Nowy Swiat in Warsaw, Poland is the best shopping street in the world

1. What sort of shops are there?2. How many people go there to do the shopping?3. 4.5.

4. What do you want to find out about the Nowy Swait street when you read the article? Work in pairs to write some questions.


5. Read the article quickly and answer the questions you have written.

The article, ‘The best shopping street’ will be distributed now.


Nowy Swiat is the best shopping street in the world because...

a. so many Polish people go walking there.b. it is a pleasant place to shop and the shops are small.c.. everything is very expensive and very exclusive.d. the shops sell quality goods that you can't buy anywhere else.

6. What is the best summary of the article?


1 How do we know that Nowy Swiat is the most popular shoppingstreet?

2 Why is it such a nice place to go shopping?

4 Why don't many foreign people go to Nowy Swiat?

5 Why are the things produced by Polish manufacturers so good?

6 What can you buy here? What can't you buy?

7 What is expensive? What isn't expensive?

8 What's good about Café Blikle?

9 What is special about the shops in Nowy Swiat?

7. Read the article again and answer the questions.


In Nowy Swiat, there are a lot of …

There isn't any…

There aren't any/many… There are some…

8. Complete the sentences with different ideas from the article.


Answers

1. From a recent survey2. There are a lot of reasons, including wide pavements, attractive buildings, exclusive cafes, and restaurants, no billboards or neon lights, no loud music or tourists3. Nowy Swait: the shopping street, café Blikle- an exclusive café, wide pavements with chic shops4. Because people think Polish shops have nothing to sell.5. They are not mass produced.6. You can buy almost everything: hand made suits, French baby clothes, antiques, leather goods, folk art, books, records, clothesYou can’t buy mass produced goods that you normally find in big department stores.7. Hand- made suits, French baby clothes and antiques are expensive.Items from Pantera, the leather-goods shop, Cepelia, the folk art shop, and other shops and small boutiques are not expensive.8. It is fashionable, lively, and the food is delicious.9. They are unique.



consumption (n) - The act of using something until it is gone, by eating, fire, etc.

exquisite (adj) - Perfectly and beautiful in every detail.

mass (v) - To collect or gather a large quantity of something.

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Let’s Go Shopping