Types of shops

• corner shop - a small shop with a shop assistant who hands you your goods
• self-service shop - you take a basket or a trolley and go shopping. If you have all the goods, you go to the cash desk and pay for your purchase. The goods is put into the shopping bag.
• supermarket, hypermarket - large self-service shops
• department store - more floors, more goods, more departments
• kinds of shops selling specific goods: bakery, men's wear, ironmonger, greengrocer's, grocer's (smíšené zboží), stationer's, tobacconist etc.
• Shopping centres:
  In the suburbs of the cities there are shopping centres now - it is a complex of many hypermarkets (e.g. in Prague or Brno there are hypermarkets TESCO, IKEA, Datart etc.), and some other smaller shops like Mc Donald´s, Jewellery, cafés, clothes´ shops, or a post office and drycleaner's.
• shopping centres are called shopping malls in the USA
• Going shopping
  describe your shopping, how many times a week you go shopping, which goods you can buy every day, once a week or only once a year etc.
• Paying - cash or by card (bank card = debit card  and credit card)
• The typical department store occupies one large building, with separate departments located on a number of floors. A number provide special services, such as a travel agency or optician’s.
• Department stores employ hundreds of people for different jobs. Employees buy, price, and sell the goods. The sales promotion manager and his staff promote the sell of merchandise (goods) through advertising and other techniques. The comptroller heads the section that keeps records and manages the store’s financial affairs. The personnel staffs hire employees and handle other employment problems.

Kinds of shops

• bazaar – a shop for the sale of cheap goods of great variety
• mobile shop – a covered moveable shop
• boutique – a small shop selling fashionable clothes
• department store – a large shop divided into smaller parts in each of which different types of goods are sold
• kiosk – a small open hut, such as one used for selling newspaper
• shopping arcade – a covered passage with a row of shops on either side
• shopping centre - a group of shops of different kinds, planned and built as a whole
• shopping precinct – a part of a town limited to shopping, often without cars
• stall – a table or small open-fronted shop in a public place
• store – a large shop
• supermarket – a large shop selling mainly food where one serves oneself
• market – open place where people meet to buy and sell goods, especially food

Some kinds of services

What is service? It is an action of helping someone or doing something for someone. It is also a system providing public needs such as transport, utilities (electricity, water...), or communications

• bank
• café
• cinema
• dentist
• doctor
• dry cleaner
• gallery
• garage
• guest-house
• hairdresser
• hotel
• library
• museum
• post office
• public transport
• restaurant
• sports centre
• swimming pool
• theatre

Fashion

Patterns

• pattern is an arrangement of lines, shapes, colours, etc. as a design
• a checked pattern - has a regular pattern of differently coloured squares
• a striped pattern - having lines of colour
• a dotted pattern
• a polka-dot pattern/ spotted - number of dots that form a pattern
• a zig-zag pattern - a pattern that looks like a line of z´s joined together
• a floral pattern
• geometric patterns
• with a pattern of tiny roses
• plain - without patterns
• tie-dye - a special pettern - to tie string around parts of piece of material and colour it with dye

Materials

• cotton
• wool
• leather
• mohair
• suede
• tweed
• corduroy
• velvet
• lace
• embroidery
• towelling