1. Click here to see how to answer some questions about this topic and some good vocabulary you can use. Then you can watch the video where they answer some of these questions and others.
Look at old posts about the same topic. There are many other activities!
Showing posts with label shopping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shopping. Show all posts
20.3.20
7.3.19
Online shopping- Reading activity
Click here to do a reading activity about this topic (the key is included).
1.3.19
Online shopping
Click here to listen to a podcast about shopping online.
Here you have some old posts about the same topic.
Here you have some old posts about the same topic.
Useful vocabulary:
- A good deal: if something is a good deal, you pay a low price. You can say that a store has some great deals, for example
- A bargain: the same as above
- 20% off : the price is now 20% less than the original price
- Overpriced: if sth is overpriced, it costs much more than you think it should
- To order: when you order something that you are going to pay for, you ask for it to be brought to you, sent to you, or obtained for you. “to order things online”
- Order number
- To place an order
- If you have a discount on the retail price, you pay less price than the price normally charged
- Goods: things made to be sold
- To be scheduled for delivery (tomorrow)
- Online form
- A secure payment page
- To enter your card details
- Get a refund
- You can pay “Cash on Delivery”
- To exchange a product
- To track your package
- Shipping rates
Ready to test your knowledge? Fill in the blanks with some of the words above.
LISTENING ACTIVITY
Watch the video and fill in the gaps. You can check your answers by activating the subtitles.
Watch the video and fill in the gaps. You can check your answers by activating the subtitles.
SINGLES’ DAY
________________, cheap and some say addictive, online ________________________ are going through the roof in China. An electric tooth flosser caught Lu Ching’s eye, ______________ 20%. He rarely visits a ________________these days. Laptop, fitness equipment, cameras, all bought with a few __________________ and many other items he admits he doesn't even need. Sometimes I do ____________________ online, especially when they are on sale. A lot of times I buy them without thinking too much and never touch them again after I open the packages; even if I don't like them, I don't _______________ them because I'm lazy. Singles’ day started in the 1990s as a response to Valentine's Day, but it has gone far beyond people's relationship status. Online giant Alibaba managed to turn what's now called Double 11 into a shopping spectacle that captivates most of China. Exactly at midnight on November 11 __________________ appear online and the _______________ ____________ begins. Twenty years ago, America was China's role model but now when we talk about online business China is doing better than the U.S. in many ways. 2016 nearly 18 billion US dollars were spent in just 24 hours. As a publicity stunt ecommerce companies are using drones to ______________ _______________ to some of China’s islands. Transport companies are working _______________ to ________________ millions of packages. More than 650 million ___________________ were ___________________last year and this year's __________________ are most likely to be even higher despite a slowing economy but it is an environmental _______________ to the online shopping festival according to Greenpeace. Research shows that in 2016, Double 11 produced 258 thousand tons of CO2 because of transportation and waste _____________________that's the equivalent of two and a half million trees When we shop online the _________________ tend to ________________- They always wrap more layers around the original packaging usually plastic bags. This uses more resources and creates more waste. A problem Lu Ching has yet to become aware of. For him, online shopping has become like his mobile phone there's no life without it anymore and to prove that ___________________shopping does not increase laziness he demonstrates the home gym he bought online.
________________, cheap and some say addictive, online ________________________ are going through the roof in China. An electric tooth flosser caught Lu Ching’s eye, ______________ 20%. He rarely visits a ________________these days. Laptop, fitness equipment, cameras, all bought with a few __________________ and many other items he admits he doesn't even need. Sometimes I do ____________________ online, especially when they are on sale. A lot of times I buy them without thinking too much and never touch them again after I open the packages; even if I don't like them, I don't _______________ them because I'm lazy. Singles’ day started in the 1990s as a response to Valentine's Day, but it has gone far beyond people's relationship status. Online giant Alibaba managed to turn what's now called Double 11 into a shopping spectacle that captivates most of China. Exactly at midnight on November 11 __________________ appear online and the _______________ ____________ begins. Twenty years ago, America was China's role model but now when we talk about online business China is doing better than the U.S. in many ways. 2016 nearly 18 billion US dollars were spent in just 24 hours. As a publicity stunt ecommerce companies are using drones to ______________ _______________ to some of China’s islands. Transport companies are working _______________ to ________________ millions of packages. More than 650 million ___________________ were ___________________last year and this year's __________________ are most likely to be even higher despite a slowing economy but it is an environmental _______________ to the online shopping festival according to Greenpeace. Research shows that in 2016, Double 11 produced 258 thousand tons of CO2 because of transportation and waste _____________________that's the equivalent of two and a half million trees When we shop online the _________________ tend to ________________- They always wrap more layers around the original packaging usually plastic bags. This uses more resources and creates more waste. A problem Lu Ching has yet to become aware of. For him, online shopping has become like his mobile phone there's no life without it anymore and to prove that ___________________shopping does not increase laziness he demonstrates the home gym he bought online.
(Activities taken from Cristina Cabal's wonderful blog. Thank you very much!)
2.2.18
Online Shopping
Useful language to order things online.
There's a mistake at the beginning of the script: Didn't you found? It should be: Didn't you find?
Read a text about the pros and cons of online shopping.
How to speak about online shopping
a Watch the video and decide if the following sentences are true (T) or false (F).
1 Tim is the person who has shopped online the longest.
2 Pete decides what he’s going to buy before he looks at a shopping website.
3 Sam only does his food shopping online.
4 Pete once ordered the wrong item.
5 Fauzia decided to return an order she wasn’t happy with.
6 Derek has never had any problems with online shopping.
7 Eloise often shops for things she can wear.
8 Tim wasn’t satisfied with the last thing he bought online.
b Watch the responses to the third question (2:00–4:18) and complete the sentences with the correct words.
1 When you _____________ it _____________ , you have to be in your house to receive it.
2 Once I _____________ quite a large ____________ from an online sari shop.
3 When I ordered it, it didn’t ____________ anything ____________ the picture.
4 It would have been too much of a hassle to ____________ it ____________ .
5 For example the payment might not ____________ properly.
6 Occasionally the ____________ has been delivered.
7 Their customer ____________ are quite good at helping you, and rectifying the ____________ .
Check your answers in "comments".
Activity taken from onestopenglish.com
There's a mistake at the beginning of the script: Didn't you found? It should be: Didn't you find?
Read a text about the pros and cons of online shopping.
How to speak about online shopping
a Watch the video and decide if the following sentences are true (T) or false (F).
1 Tim is the person who has shopped online the longest.
2 Pete decides what he’s going to buy before he looks at a shopping website.
3 Sam only does his food shopping online.
4 Pete once ordered the wrong item.
5 Fauzia decided to return an order she wasn’t happy with.
6 Derek has never had any problems with online shopping.
7 Eloise often shops for things she can wear.
8 Tim wasn’t satisfied with the last thing he bought online.
b Watch the responses to the third question (2:00–4:18) and complete the sentences with the correct words.
1 When you _____________ it _____________ , you have to be in your house to receive it.
2 Once I _____________ quite a large ____________ from an online sari shop.
3 When I ordered it, it didn’t ____________ anything ____________ the picture.
4 It would have been too much of a hassle to ____________ it ____________ .
5 For example the payment might not ____________ properly.
6 Occasionally the ____________ has been delivered.
7 Their customer ____________ are quite good at helping you, and rectifying the ____________ .
Check your answers in "comments".
Activity taken from onestopenglish.com
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