Do YOU Know The English Names of These Stores and Shops?

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Learn English with Bob the Canadian


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Hi, Bob the Canadian here.
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I'm not sure how you're feeling,
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but I need to get out.
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So I thought, since you want to learn some English
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and I want to get out,
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this would be a great day
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to jump in the van and to head out
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and to go teach an English lesson
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about shops and stores.
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(relaxing music)
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Now, I know some of you are wondering
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if I'm allowed to do this.
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Am I allowed to go out during the pandemic?
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Well, here in Ontario, Canada,
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I am allowed to go out,
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but I don't plan to go into any of the stores
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if they happen to be open.
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I will show you the outside,
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and I will help you learn
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a little bit of English about the store,
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but I don't plan to go in.
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I plan to stay safe while I make this lesson.
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Let's go.
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(loud beeping)
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Well, hey welcome to this English lesson
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about stores and shops.
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Before we get started,
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if this is your first time here,
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don't forget to click that red Subscribe button below
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and give me a thumbs up at some point
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during this video
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if it is helping you learn a little bit more English.
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Well, here is our first store.
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The store behind me is called a grocery store.
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Sometimes in English, we also call this a supermarket.
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A grocery store is the best place to go
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if you want to buy food.
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You can go to a grocery store to buy bread,
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to buy milk, to buy basically anything.
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You can buy bananas there.
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That's my favorite thing to buy at the grocery store.
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The store behind me is what we call a big-box store.
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This big-box store sells electronics.
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If you need a computer
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or if you need toner for your printer,
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you can go to this big-box store.
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There are other types of big-box stores, though.
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There are big-box stores that sell
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a wide variety of things,
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and there are big-box stores
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that sell things like lumber and tools.
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This store is called a dollar store
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or a discount store.
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A long time ago, everything in a dollar store
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was only one dollar.
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Times have change a bit, though,
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and things are a little bit more expensive,
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but it is still a good place to go
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if you want to buy things
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that are very, very cheap.
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If your doctor says that you need medicine,
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he will write you a prescription,
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and you will take it to a drugstore.
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We also call this a pharmacy in Canada.
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So if you need medicine or if you need drugs,
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you would go and you would get them at a drugstore
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or at a pharmacy.
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This store is called a convenience store,
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or if it's on a corner, like this store is,
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you could call it a corner store.
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A convenience store is a store that is open a lot,
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sometimes convenience stores
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are open 24 hours a day,
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and it's a place where you can go
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just to grab something quick.
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Maybe you want a can of pop, or a can of soda,
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and a little bag of chips.
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I think you call them crisps in the U.K.
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A convenience store would be a great place
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if you just needed a quick snack,
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or maybe you forgot to buy milk
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or something else at the grocery store,
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and the grocery store is closed,
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you could go to a convenience store
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and buy those items as well,
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although they're usually a little more expensive.
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The store behind me is called a hardware store.
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A hardware store is a great store to go to
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if you need to buy tools.
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You can go to a hardware store
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to buy a hammer or a wrench.
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You can also go to a hardware store
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to buy things like bolts and nuts
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and washers and screws.
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If you want to buy beer
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in my Province of Ontario, Canada,
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you need to go to this store.
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You need to go to the beer store.
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I think it's pretty clear what they sell here.
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They sell beer.
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Behind me, you can see a whole bunch of stores in a row,
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and we would call this a strip mall or a plaza.
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This is different than a mall.
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In a mall, you go inside the mall,
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and the stores are on the inside.
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With a strip mall, the stores all have their doors
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on the outside.
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The store behind me sells used clothing.
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We would call this a secondhand store,
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or a thrift store.
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This is a place where you can go
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if you don't want to buy clothes that are brand new.
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Maybe you want to save some money.
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A good way to save some money
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is to buy things that are used,
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and to buy them from a secondhand store.
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This store is called a bulk food store.
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At this store, the food doesn't come
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in cans or prepackaged.
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It comes in big barrels,
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and you scoop out the amount of food you want
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and put it into a bag,
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then they weigh it, and you pay by the weight
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of the food that you are buying.
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This is a furniture store.
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This is where you would go
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if you needed to buy a couch or a chair
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or a table or even a bed.
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A furniture store has all of the furniture
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that you would need for every room in the house.
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So this is not a store, and it's not a shop.
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We would call this a roadside stand.
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A roadside stand usually sells fruits and vegetables,
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and they are usually located at the end
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of the lane of a farm,
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and on the side of the road.
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That's why they're called a roadside stand.
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Sometimes we also call them a fruit stand
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or a vegetable stand.
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In my area of Ontario, Canada,
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you can buy all kinds of different fruit
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at a roadside stand.
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You can buy peaches in season,
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you can buy apples when they're in season.
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So later this year, you can buy all kinds of fruit
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at a roadside stand.
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If you have a pet like a dog or cat,
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you would need to go to a pet store
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if you needed to buy them some food.
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So if you needed dog food or cat food,
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or maybe fish food,
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you would go to a pet store in order to buy it.
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This is called a flower shop, and we also call it a florist.
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Maybe there's someone in your life
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that would like some flowers.
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If there is, you would go to a flower shop
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or a florist and you would buy them
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a beautiful bouquet of flowers.
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If you needed to get your nails done,
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maybe you need a manicure or a pedicure,
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you could go to a nail shop.
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I think you can also buy nail polish in a nail shop,
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but I must admit, I don't actually know.
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I have never been in a nail shop
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in my entire life.
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So you might be wondering,
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what is the difference between a store and a shop?
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Well, in Canada and in the United States
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we use the word store probably 90% of the time.
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We use the word shop to refer to things that are small
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and usually sell one thing,
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so like a flower shop, a gift shop, a souvenir shop.
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We also use the word shop to refer to small stores,
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maybe in a downtown area of a city.
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So you could say, "Oh, I'm gonna go do some shopping
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"at the shops downtown."
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So we don't use the word shop
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as much as they do in other English-speaking countries,
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so in Canada and the United States,
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we definitely use the store a lot more.
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This is a mall.
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A mall is a gigantic building
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that has many, many stores.
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It has small stores and it also has big stores.
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Some of the big stores, like this store here,
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which we call "The Bay," "The Hudson's Bay Company,"
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we call a department store.
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A department store is a large store
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that has several departments.
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You can buy clothing, you can buy shoes,
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you can buy electronics,
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you can buy many, many different types of things
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in a department store.
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If you need shoes, or if you need boots,
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you go to a shoe store.
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If you have kids or maybe a nephew or niece,
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you might want to come to this store.
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This is a toy store.
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This is a great place to buy toys.
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I must say, though, that if you come
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to a store like this before Christmas, though,
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it's way too busy.
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If you want to buy a car,
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you come to a car dealership.
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We don't say car store in English.
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That phrase doesn't exist.
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If you need to buy a new car,
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you buy one at a car dealership,
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like this dealership behind me,
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or like the two across the road.
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If you needed to buy jewellery,
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you would come to a jewellery store.
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This jewellery store behind me
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would sell rings, they would sell watches,
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and they would also sell things
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like necklaces and bracelets.
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This is an outlet mall,
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and an outlet mall has stores
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that are called outlet stores.
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At outlet store sells clothing
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and other items from just one manufacturer,
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so if you like all of the shoes
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and other things that are made by a company like Nike,
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you can come to the Nike outlet store
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to buy all of your Nike items.
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This is a bookstore.
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This is the kind of store you would come to
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if you needed to buy a book.
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It has a cool name, too, it's called Chapters,
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because, you know, books have chapters in them.
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But I'm kind of surprised a store like this still exists,
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because there's another kind of store
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that people use a lot
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when they want to buy a book,
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and it's called an online store.
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Stores like Amazon exist only on the internet,
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and we call them online stores.
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Amazon sells books,
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and it sells a lot of other things as well.
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So when people don't want to go out to buy something,
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they buy it from an online store.
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Sometimes when you travel,
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you might want to buy a souvenir to remember the trip.
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You would do that at a souvenir shop,
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and sometimes we also call this a gift shop.
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This souvenir shop sells things like T-shirts
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and Canada flags and postcards.
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I'm not gonna tell you what city I'm in right now,
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but we will visit this city,
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and I will make a video here, probably this summer.
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Well hey, thank you so much for watching
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this English lesson about stores and shops.
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Remember, if you are new here,
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don't forget to click that red Subscribe button below,
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give me a thumbs up if this video
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helped you learn just a little bit more English,
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and if you have the time,
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why don't you stick around and watch another video?
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