Are you ready to shop like a native English speaker? In this lesson, we’ll learn essential shopping vocabulary that will help you understand sales, deals, and discounts like a good consumer. Whether you’re navigating Black Friday mayhem, hunting for a clearance sale, or avoiding a “bait and switch” scam, these words and expressions will make you a savvy shopper in any English-speaking country. Sound too good to be true? https://www.engvid.com/speak-like-a-native-shopper-english-vocabulary-for-shopping-sales-scams/
In this lesson: 0:00 Shopping & Sale Vocabulary in English 0:36 Black Friday 2:33 Cyber Monday 3:07 Boxing Day 3:54 Singles Day 4:47 clearance 5:27 markdown 6:25 going out of business 6:50 final sale 7:32 bait-n-switch 8:41 gimmick 9:22 BOGO 10:08 bargain hunting 10:21 too good to be true 10:45 a find/a steal 11:14 take an additional ____ off the lowest ticketed price 12:07 door crasher 13:09 final offer & take it or leave it
Transcript: Hi, everybody. Welcome to www.engvid.com. I'm Adam. Today, I want to talk to you about shopping. But more specifically, I want to talk about sales, because everybody loves a sale. Everybody wants to get the cheapest product they can and find something really special and tell all their friends how much money they saved. So, I'm going to tell you about some of the biggest sales, again, mostly in North America, but some of them are actually international, and then I'm going to give you a whole bunch of good words and expressions that will help you become a better shopper when it comes to sales. Okay?
So, we're going to start with some of the biggest shopping days in, again, North America, but not only. As you're going to see, it's becoming much more international. So, we're going to start with Black Friday. Now, Black Friday is very much an American shopping day, although in the last few years, I've seen stores all over the world advertising Black Friday sales. In the States, this happens on the Friday after Thanksgiving, so it's between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Right? This is when people start buying gifts, like Christmas gifts and end-of-year gifts. So, this is the biggest shopping day in the US.
Now, it is so popular that it's a little bit crazy. There's actually a good word to describe this shopping experience. It's mayhem. Mayhem means complete chaos, complete uncontrolled craziness going on in the stores all over the US. In this mayhem, people are... They line up, first of all, hours before stores open because they want to get in there and get the best deals before other people get them. And once the store is open, everybody rushes inside and everybody goes... Tries to grab all the products they want, and it's very common to hear about people fighting each other over, like, a TV, for example. It's complete craziness, complete chaos. It's mayhem. Okay? But where does the name come from? There's a few different theories, but some people, and the one that seems to make the most sense, because this is the biggest shopping day, this is when stores start moving from the red, means losing money, into the black, making a profit. That's one explanation. There are a few other ones, but that sounds like a good one to me.
Anyways, following this Friday, there is something called Cyber Monday. This is the Monday right after the Black Friday sales. This is the biggest online shopping day, when all the retail... Online retailers - this is a good word, also - retailers are the people selling in stores or online. All the online retailers put their products and services on sale as well. So, also a very busy shopping day, but not in stores, on the computer.
Then there's Boxing Day. This is one day after Christmas. Now, in most... In most of these countries, all the stores are closed the day after. So, Christmas is really a two-day holiday. The third day, the second day after Christmas, all the stores are open and there are huge sales with big discounts, and everybody goes shopping, basically to try to save all the money that they spent on Christmas gifts. So, it doesn't actually really make sense, but lots of good deals on Boxing Day. Boxing Day comes from a British tradition that after Christmas, the wealthy people used to make little boxed gifts for the servants and all that stuff. That's where the name generally comes from.
Recently, in the last few years, there's the biggest sale of them all. It's an online sale. It's called Singles Day because it happens on November 11th, so 1-1-1-1, a lot of single people out there. This is by AliExpress, this is a Chinese company, and they're... It's basically the Chinese version of Amazon. […]
