Shopping Vocabulary: High Street and Online
Shopping vocabulary spans two parallel worlds in modern English: high-street shopping (shop assistant, fitting room, receipt, refund, exchange, in stock, out of stock, sale, discount) and online shopping (add to cart, checkout, delivery, tracking number, returns policy, customer reviews, free shipping). Both share underlying transactional language (how much is it?, can I pay by card?, do you have this in a smaller size?) and both need fluency with prices, sizes, and quantities.
This worksheet builds A2 control of shopping vocabulary across high-street and online contexts.
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What’s inside:
- Vocabulary box organised by shopping context (in-store, online, customer service)
- Dialogue completion: shop assistant + customer in a clothes shop
- Online-shopping interface gap-fill (checkout flow vocabulary)
- Personalised production: describe a recent purchase, online or in-store
- Full Answer Key plus Teacher Notes with role-play extension
Common challenges: Buy vs pay for trips up learners — I bought a jacket (I purchased it) vs I paid for the jacket (I gave money for it). Online-shopping vocabulary is heavily Anglo-American — cart (US) vs basket (UK), checkout universal. False friends include Spanish mercado (market, not supermarket); German Discount tends to mean a specific retailer chain rather than a price reduction.
For: Adult and teenage learners (14+) at CEFR A2, in pre-intermediate classes, 1:1 lessons, or self-study. Shopping vocabulary is heavily tested in Cambridge A2 Key (KET) and B1 Preliminary (PET) Speaking and Writing. Part of the Everyday Life & People collection — the natural next step is Describing People: Appearance, which extends the everyday-vocabulary work into people-description territory.
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