What do you usually shop for? Food, clothes, or anything else?
Have you ever bought something and never used it?
Have you ever bought something broken? Did you take it back to the shop?
What is the most expensive thing you have ever bought?
Some people say men do not like shopping. Do you agree or disagree? Why?
What do you spend most of your money on?
Do you ever buy presents for your family and friends? What did you last buy? Did they like it?
What are the products you buy regularly?
How many shopping centers/malls are there in your area? Which one is your favourite?
Do you prefer to shop in local shops or in shopping malls? Why? What are the advantages and disadvantages of both?
What are the three things you can only find in shopping centers but not in local shops and vice versa?
Do you think shopping centers will be closed down one day in the future? Why/Why not?
If you owned a shopping mall, what would you name it? How would it be different from other shopping malls?
What is the most modern shopping mall you have ever been to? What makes it modern?
Other than shopping, what else can you do in a shopping mall?
Would you ever travel a long distance (to another city/country) to buy a specific product?
Who does the shopping for food at home?
How often do you shop for food?
How much do you spend on food per month? Is it higher than last year? What has changed?
What are some food products you consume the most?
What is one food item you cannot live without?
Do you think the food we buy from supermarkets is healthy? Why/Why not?
Do you have a credit card? For how long?
Do you think credit cards are safe to use? What are some risks involving credit cards?
Do you ever skip your credit card payment? Under what circumstances?
When was the last time you shopped in a music store? What did you buy?
What was the last item you bought from a sports shop? How much did you pay for it?
What is your favourite clothes shop? Why do you like it?
Is the brand name of the clothes you wear important to you? Why?
What do you shop for in a butcher’s? Are you good at cooking it?
Do you ever shop for luxury items? What have you bought? How much did you spend?
Before you buy something, do you do a price search, or do you go and directly buy it? Why?
Have you ever bought something, but did not like afterward and returned to the shop? What was it? What excuse did you give to the shop assistant?
Do you always keep your receipts after you buy something? For how long?
Imagine you have just bought a t-shirt from a well-known clothes shop. However, when you tried it on again when you arrived home, you decided you did not quite like it. Take the item back to the shop, and do the necessary speech. Your teacher/classmate is the shop assistant.
What are some excuses to return an item to the shop where you bought it from?
Do you shop online? Why/why not?
What is your favourite site to shop online? What do you usually buy?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of online shopping?
Do you think online shopping is safe?
What problems might occur when you buy something online?
Have you ever bought anything from overseas? What was it? Why did you buy it from another country?
Have you ever bought a product online, but when it arrived it turned out that the product was completely different from what you saw on the website? What did you do? Did you solve the problem?
When you were a child, did you ever save money to buy something? What was it? How much did you save? How long did it take you to save that amount of money?
Are you saving up to buy anything nowadays?
You have a pencil which you have to sell. Make a speech to convince me to buy the pencil.
