Let's Learn English at the Shopping Mall | English Video with Subtitles

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Learn English with Bob the Canadian


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Hi! Bob the Canadian here. Let’s learn English….
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Well that’s not very nice!
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Let’s learn English at the shopping mall. Hey welcome to this video. If this is your
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first time here don’t forget to click the subscribe button below. And if you don’t
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mind at some point during this video give me a thumbs up. Let’s head into the mall.
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So one of the first things I like to look for when I walk into the entrance of a mall
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is the map and the list of stores. If you look down here it will list all of the stores
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that are in the mall, and you can find the particular store that you’re looking for
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with it’s number. So for instance if I wanted to go to Shoppers Drug Mart. It’s store
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number 8. I can then look at the map and find store number 8. There should also be a “You
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Are Here.” type of thing. Why can’t I find it? Oh it’s over here. It’s a little
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hard for me sometimes to think quickly. But, “You are Here” so I know that I came in
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this entranceway and I’m standing right here right now.
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So I should say though that often I’ll just refer to the shopping mall as a mall. In English
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we often have short forms for different words. We don’t often actually say the word, “shopping
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mall”. We usually just say mall. I’m going to the mall. I’m going to get some things
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at the mall.
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And there’s a couple different kinds of stores at the mall. If you look behind me
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there’s a traditional type of store, but if you look right here there’s something
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that we would call a “kiosk”. This particular kiosk looks like it sells cell phones.
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Probably the store that you’ll find the most often at the mall is a clothing store.
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I think in this mall almost probably ¾ of the stores are actually clothing stores.
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Other types of stores are things like, behind me over here there’s a card store, and over
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here there is a game store, a video game store, and if you look way, oh, there’s another
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clothing store, and if you look way down there, there’s a cell phone store. So those are
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some of the typical types of stores that you’ll find at a mall.
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This is where my kids always wanna stop when we’re at the mall. But I always say no.
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Am I a mean dad? And they always wanna stop here too and I say no again.
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So behind me here you’ll see a shoe store. There’s usually two or three shoe stores
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in a mall. I don’t buy shoes very often so it’s not a store that I go into a lot.
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But let’s walk for a bit and I’ll show you what my favourite store is.
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So behind me is my favourite store, which a bookstore. I love to read books. I think
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maybe we should go inside and see if they have a good book to help people learn English.
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I don’t know if they do, but I’m just gonna walk in and ask them, so let’s go.
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Just gonna walk to the back and see if there’s a book section for learning English. If not
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I’ll have to ask someone to help me. Don’t really see anything like that. Nope. I don’t
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see any books to help learn English.
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Do you have any books to help people learn English and what section would they be in?
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These three books here are the books that they have to help you learn English. There’s
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only one book that I think I would recommend is the DK series of books for learning English
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is really good. I think I might actually go and buy this one just to kind of check it
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out.
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Pretty much every mall will have a food court with a seating area, and a food court if I
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just give you a bit of a spin will have all kinds of different restaurants. They’re
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usually fast food restaurants where you can get food quickly, but they’re usually located
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somewhere in the centre of the mall and we call it a food court.
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So behind me is my second favorite kind of store. This is an electronics store and you
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can buy televisions. You can buy cameras. You can buy radios. You can buy all the stuff
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you’d like that’s electronic. I really really like that store.
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So the other thing that’s very common to find in a mall is a hair salon. So behind
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me there’s a hair salon. It’s a place where you can go to get your haircut, to get
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your hair done. And I don’t go to this particular hair salon, I go to a smaller one that costs
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less money, but yeah, behind me at the mall you can get your haircut while you’re doing
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some shopping.
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Some malls in Canada at least actually have movie theatres right in the mall. So sometimes
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my wife and I will come and do some shopping and when we’re done shopping we’ll go
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and we’ll see a move while we’re at the mall. Not every mall in Canada has a movie
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theatre but some malls have movie theatres built right in where you can go and see a
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movie.
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It’s almost Halloween in Canada which is at the end of October and that’s why they
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have all costumes out here. On Halloween kids dress up and they go to the neighbours houses
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and they say, “Trick or Treat!” to get candy and chocolate. So that’s why today
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at the mall you’ll see a lot of stores selling different types of costumes.
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So this store behind me sells shoes and other athletic gear. If you needed shoes for soccer
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or volleyball or a new pair of shorts I’m not sure what sport you play, this would be
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the store you would come to. This is actually the store where I bought my shoes that I’m
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wearing right now.
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So a lot of times a mall will have a jewelry store where you can buy rings, necklaces,
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and bracelets. I’m kind of lucky because Jen the Canadian, my wife, doesn’t actually
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wear a lot of jewelry so I don’t spend a lot of money at the jewelry store.
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What’s kind of cool about this mall is it actually has a library, a public library built
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in. And next week’s video I’m actually gonna do a “Learn English Video” at the
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library. Not this library, but if you notice because we live in Canada we have Bibliothèque
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Publique and then down here you’ll see that it says, “Public Library” because Canada
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is a bilingual country. So we sometimes at a mall will have a public library where you
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can go and sign out a book.
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When you’re at the mall a lot of times you need some money and even though you can pay
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in most stores with a credit card or a debit card usually most malls will have one or two
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banks that have bank machines where you can go to take out some money. In English we call
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it money or cash. So you can usually find a bank machine where you can take out some
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money and then you can use that money to make your purchases at the mall.
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Well I’m home now, my wallet’s empty. That’s what happens when I go to the shopping
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mall, or to the mall. I hope you enjoyed this video. Give me a thumbs up if this video was
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helpful for you. Subscribe if you haven’t subscribed yet and please do share this video.
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I’m pretty sure next week we’re going to the library, but we’ll have to wait and
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see because I might do a video where we go to the forest because in Canada all of the
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leaves are starting to turn colour, all of the leaves on the trees. Anyways, thanks for
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watching, have a good week.
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