9B Shoppers

Ice-breakers

• What was the last item of clothing you bought?
• Who was it for?
• When did you buy it?
• Where did you buy it?
• What are the best places to go shopping in Madrid?
• What type of shops do you enjoy going to?
• Would you ever go for a weekend away just to shop? Why or why not?
• Who do you go shopping with?

Language corner: shopping

1. Shopping centre is the usual UK term. In the US (and internationally) people say shopping mall.
2. Window-shopping means 'looking at products for sale in windows of shops, without any strong intention of buying'.
3. A corner shop is a small shop, usually selling a range of things that local residents might need, ie newspapers, food, stationery, cleaning products, etc. Traditionally family-owned and run, the large supermarkets have started to move in on this sector with mini-versions of their large stores. By the way, a corner shop doesn't have to be located on a street corner!
4. A shopaholic is someone who is very keen on shopping. It is usually used jokingly, eg I'm a bit of a shopaholic! rather than to discuss a serious addiction. The noun is a recent creation, based on the form alcoholic. There are a number of similar newish -aholic words, eg chocaholic, webaholic, danceaholic, workaholic, etc.
5. A discount shop is a shop that sells everything at low prices. In Britain, some are known as pound shops where everything is theoretically priced at 1 pound.
6. To go on a shopping spree is when you shop excessively, buying a lot of things in an extravagant way.

Shopping jokes:

Veni, Vidi, Visa - I came, I saw, I shopped.

What’s the most expensive vehicle, per mile, to operate? A shopping trolley.

Grammar: quantifiers 1

Quantifiers are (like articles) determiners. They tell us how much or how many of something there are.

SOME

It refers to an imprecise quantity, usually smaller rather than larger. It comes in front of uncountable nouns (eg some rice) and plural countable nouns (eg some flowers). 

ANY

It is used in two ways:

1. to talk about existence, rather than quantity. It is used in questions when we don't know if something exists or not (eg Have you got any olive oil?), and in negatives to show that something doesn't exist (eg The library hasn't got any books on Newton). 
2. if any is stressed in a sentence, then it has a different meaning of 'no limits', eg You can go in any shop you want to means 'there are no limits on the shops you can go into'.

MANY & MUCH

Many shows a large quantity and much is the uncountable equivalent of many. 

What's wrong in the following sentences?

- Many my friends came.

- She has got many food / much egg.

- No one of my friends came.

- Any of my friends came.

- I haven't got money. 

If you want to practice a / an / any /some a little bit more, you have some exercises with online correction in this link: 
determiners any - some



Further practice
What do you think about shopping?
Listen to some people talk what they waste their money on
Melissa talks about what ads influence her