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Welcome to our Daily English Listening Practice with this week’s series:
Shopping Vocabulary
This is the 3rd part of a 5-part series of our shopping word lists. Here you’ll find some advanced English listening exercises from native English teachers. Listen and learn!
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Pay Full Price / Retail Price / Pick Up A Bargain / Get A Good Deal
- Pay full price: No discounts available
- Pick up a bargain: Pay less than full price
How to use it:
“Check it out. These pants were 50% off the retail price, I got a really good deal.”
“I feel terrible, I paid full price for these curtains, then saw them a week later in the clearance section!”
Shop Around
- End up doing something: changing your original plan and doing something different
- Balance out: to make something equal
How to use it:
“I can’t find anything in my price range, so I’ll have to keep shopping around.”
“I would shop around for a better deal, but I’m too lazy so I’ll just get it here.”
Value For (The) Money
- Matters to you: is important to you
- Justify: to give a good reason why you’ve done something
How to use it:
“It’s probably not the highest quality product I could have bought, but it’s much better value for money.”
“Well look, if we buy the large pack, the price per ounce goes down quite a bit, so it’s way better value for the money.”
BOGO / BOGOF
- A lot of shops run it: many shops have this offer
- Implied: we understand something without saying it
- Swayed: convinced or persuaded
- Offer: a special deal or price
- Lost on me: doesn’t work on me
- The product I was going to buy anyway: I was going to buy the product whether it was on sale or not.
- 2 for the price of 1: Buy 2 items for the same price as 1 item
How to use it:
“Hold on, this one’s buy one get one free. I don’t mind spending a little bit more if we get two of them.”
“This whole rock is Buy One, Get One, so help me look for something!”
Mark Down / Clearance Section
- Make a beeline: go straight towards
- An aisle: A section dedicated to one or several items
- About to expire: close to going bad, going rotten
- Expiration date: the date shops have to sell their products by
- Slash the price: reduce the price by a lot
- Get rid of something: Sell or give away something quickly
- Regift: Give a gift that was previously another gift
- Savvy: Good with money
- Go off: go bad, when it reaches the time that it shouldn’t be eaten
How to use it:
“No trip to the supermarket is complete without checking the clearance section for some ridiculous deals.”
“I mean, we don’t really need it, but it’s marked down 80% so I went ahead and got it.”
There you have it! You just learnt 10 new phrases! Check you out! If you still have any questions, please leave a comment below and we’ll try to help.
Thanks!
Kat and Mark
