Let's Learn English at the Shopping Mall! It's Time for A Field Trip! 👔👟👗

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Learn English with Bob the Canadian


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Let's learn English at the mall.
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So I thought it would be a good idea
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to make another English lesson at the mall.
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I did one of these a few years ago now, but
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I thought it would be fun to do another one.
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So here we are at the mall.
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And I wanted to start by telling you about three
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verbs that I use when I talk about the mall.
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I would say something like this,
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I'm here today to go shopping.
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I might also say, I'm here today to do some shopping.
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Be careful with that one, though.
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You do need the word some in there,
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or you can even use a little bit.
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I'm here today to do a little bit of shopping.
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And then also in English, we like
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to use the word grab a lot.
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I'm here to grab some things.
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I'm not actually going to buy anything, though.
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I'm just giving those as examples.
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But once again, welcome to this
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English lesson at the mall.
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So I'm happy because this mall still
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has a map of the mall.
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You can see a map of the mall up
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there and a list of all the stores.
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A different mall that I was at recently,
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you had to download an app in
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order to find stores in the mall.
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I like this better.
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You'll usually find a map like this
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close to the entrance of the mall.
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We would call that the entrance.
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There's no main entrance in this mall, though.
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There's just a lot of entrances, like one on
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every side of the mall, if not more. So,
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the map of the mall and one of the entrances.
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Oh, and by the way, mall is actually
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the short way of saying shopping mall.
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So I am right now at
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a shopping mall in Burlington, Ontario.
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If I wanted to speak quickly, though, I would just
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say: Right now, I'm at a mall in Burlington, Ontario.
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So in North America, we generally refer to
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all of the places where you can buy
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things as either stores or shops.
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We use those two words interchangeably quite a bit.
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I know if you're learning British English, there might
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be a slight difference between stores and shops, but
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this behind me, I would call it a store.
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I might also call it a shop.
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I would use both words interchangeably.
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But this down here, let me spin you around.
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You look down here, I would call this a kiosk.
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When it's located kind of in the middle part
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of the mall, we call these little things kiosks.
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You can see down the middle, there
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are a number of different kiosks
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here. You can buy a case for your cell phone.
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You can buy popcorn, and here you can buy more cases for
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your cell phone or a cell phone if you need one.
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So I thought real quick, we should review the vocabulary
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we use to talk about different kinds of stores.
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This store behind me is a computer store.
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This is a place where they sell computers.
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This store here is a shoe store.
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This is where you would come if you
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wanted to buy a new pair of shoes.
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This is a clothing store.
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You would come to a store like this if you needed to
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buy a shirt or a skirt or maybe you need a suit.
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You would definitely come to a clothing
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store if you needed to buy clothes.
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We also still have department stores at our malls.
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A department store is a large
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store that sells pretty much everything.
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This department store sells clothing.
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But if you look over here, you can also buy
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pots and pans and other things for your kitchen.
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So these stores are generally quite big.
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Department stores generally have everything, and
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usually there's more than one floor.
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I think this one has two or three floors.
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There's lots of things you could buy here.
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So right now I'm going down the escalator.
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An escalator is this really cool thing that you can go
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on when you want to get from one floor to another.
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It's kind of like stairs for lazy people.
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I remember as a kid, the first time I
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went on an escalator, I actually forgot to take
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a step at the end and I tripped.
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But as an adult, I'm pretty good
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at going up and down the escalator.
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So I personally have not done a lot
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of shopping at a store like this.
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This is a dress store.
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You would come to a store like this if
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you were going to a fancy party or a
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wedding and you needed to find a dress.
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So I have been to a store like this, though.
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This is a jewelry store.
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I have been to jewelry stores not to buy jewelry for
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myself, but I have bought jewelry for Jen in the past.
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So this is a jewelry store.
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This is where you would come if you needed earrings
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or maybe a necklace or maybe a nice ring.
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So at the mall, there are a lot of
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stores, but the two kinds of stores that I
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see most often would be clothing stores.
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And if you look behind me over here, another
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shoe store, I find that the majority of the
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stores at malls in my part of the world
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are either selling clothing or they're selling shoes.
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So the store we're about to go
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in is one of my favorite stores.
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I love bookstores.
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I love coming and seeing what
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new books have come out recently.
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This bookstore in particular is a very,
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very nice store to shop at.
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I've bought many, many books in this bookstore.
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So if you are athletic, if you like to play sports,
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you might want to go to a sporting goods store to
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buy some shoes or some shorts or other athletic gear.
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I'm not sure if that's the name that's used
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around the world in English, but in Canada, we
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would call this a sporting goods store.
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You can come here and buy anything
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you need for playing different sports.
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You could buy a basketball.
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You could buy ice skates.
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I'll show you some on the wall right here.
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After all, we are in Canada.
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There are a lot of different ice
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skates available to be purchased here.
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So if you are into sports, if you like
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playing sports, this would be the store for you.
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A sporting goods store.
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So sometimes you're not feeling well, and if that's the
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case, you might want to go and find a drugstore.
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So in Canada, we would call this
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either a drugstore or a pharmacy.
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This is a place you would go if a doctor gave
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you a prescription and you needed to get it filled.
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Or maybe you just need something because you
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have a headache or maybe because you've hurt
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yourself and you just need some bandages.
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So you would then go to a drugstore.
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When my kids were younger, they
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loved going to stores like this.
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This is a toy store.
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So if you needed to buy puzzles or games
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or stuffed animals or any other types of toys,
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this would be a great store to come to.
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So always a favorite with my
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kids when they were little.
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This is a toy store.
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So it doesn't surprise me that this store is closed.
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This is what we would have called
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a record store or a CD store.
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This is a place where you could buy music.
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But people usually don't buy
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their music that way anymore.
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Usually they get their music online.
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So a store like this used to be very, very popular.
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But as you can see, even though the
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mall is open, this store is closed.
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So if you're wondering why there aren't
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very many people here, it's probably because
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I'm here on a Monday afternoon.
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So generally people shop a lot on the
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weekends and maybe at night after work.
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But I'm here today at 01:00 on a Monday.
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So the mall is a little bit empty.
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So it's pretty common for Canadians
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to go south in the winter.
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Jen and I don't do that very often, but if
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we did, we might come to a store like this.
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To buy a bathing suit.
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Yes, this is an entire store that is just
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filled with bathing suits and things you would buy
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if you were going south for the winter.
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So this is another store that I don't know a lot about.
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But this is a store that sells makeup.
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So if you needed nail polish or you needed lipstick
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or you needed anything else, eyeliner, I don't even know
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all the words that you would use to describe what
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they sell in this store, but you would come to
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this makeup store if you wanted to buy those things.
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So when it comes to stores that I don't really know
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anything about, and I might actually blush a little bit as
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I talk about this one, this is a lingerie store.
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This is a store you would
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go to for more intimate apparel.
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I guess that's a good way to describe it.
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But it's here.
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It's at the mall.
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I've never shopped here, but this is a lingerie store.
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So I've mentioned this in other videos.
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When you're in Canada and you need to go to
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the washroom, you look for a sign like this.
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And yes, we do use the word washroom.
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If you were in the United States,
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you might use bathroom or restroom.
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But certainly if you need to go to the washroom
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or go to the bathroom or go to the restroom,
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you would certainly find one at a mall.
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And it's usually in the food court.
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It's usually at the back of the food court.
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So this is one of my favorite
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places to go to in any mall.
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This is the food court.
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The food court is the place in the mall
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where you can find all different types of restaurants.
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In this food court
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you can buy french fries, you can buy coffee, you
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can buy bagels, you can buy chicken, you can buy
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subs, you can buy almost anything in this food court.
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I think I might get some food myself in just a minute,
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but there's so many choices,
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I'm not sure what I'm going to get.
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Hi, could I get a double buddy burger with no
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onions. It's for here or to go? For here, please.
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Would you like anything else? No, that's it.
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And how would you like to pay?
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Uh, tap.
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Thank you.
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Thank you very much, and have a good day. Yeah, thank you.
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You too.
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Well, hey, thanks for watching this
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English lesson at the mall.
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