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0:00 Well, hello and welcome to this English lesson that's going to be a little bit different than other lessons I've done. I'm actually here at my local mall, what we might call a strip mall, because you walk along the outside and the store entrances are on the outside. There's no inside part to this mall, so we call it a strip mall. And I'm going to walk by every single store and kind of describe the type of store it is. So that will be today's English lesson, a bit of a walk and talk. So let's start right here. This is a hardware store. A hardware store is a store you would go to if you need to buy tools or what we call hardware. Nuts and bolts, nails and screws
0:46 and those types of things. I have to make sure I don't get run over here by a car. But a hardware store is a place where you go, if you need to buy a hammer, maybe you need to buy some little hinges because you need to fix a door. But this is a hardware store. You can see that right now they're also selling potted plants and chairs that you can use to sit outside because the weather is becoming a lot nicer here in Ontario, Canada. The next store we have here, it might be a little bit of a giveaway with the name of the store. This store is called Foodland, and it is what we would call a grocery store or a supermarket. Both words pretty much
1:31 mean the same thing. And you might have guessed it. You would go to this store when you need to buy groceries, when you need carrots or a can of soup or maybe a loaf of bread or some eggs and some milk, this would be the store that you would go to. Now, you might be wondering, you saw at the. Maybe you can see way at the end there by the hardware store, and here there are lots of bags for sale. Those bags are actually bags of dirt or soil or manure that people can use in their flower beds and in their gardens. People in many parts of the world like to grow things in the warm season.
2:18 So you can see here we have some topsoil. And further down here, I'm sure we'll have more topsoil. We call these milk crates, by the way, if you didn't know that. Topsoil. Wow, there's a lot of topsoil. What do we have here? Oh, this is actually manure or manure compost. So that would work as a bit of a fertilizer. I'm going to spin you around here to show you the direction we are going. I have to keep my eye out for vehicles. It's not super busy here. There's a large transport truck that is probably just finished doing a delivery.
3:06 A delivery is when you bring things to a store or to a house. And then I'll slow. Oh, maybe we should talk about Tim Hortons. So there's also a cafe or restaurant with a drive through where you can go if you want to buy a coffee or a donut or a treat. Okay. Here we have a pet store. A pet store is a place where you go to buy. Maybe you go there to buy a pet, but most often you go there to either buy pet food, like dog food or cat food, or maybe you have some fish and then you might also buy a collar or leash at the pet store. This is called Pharmasave. So you might have an idea of what this is. This is a pharmacy or we sometimes
3:52 call it a drugstore in Canada. I think in Britain they might call it a chemist, but we call it a pharmacy or a drugstore. You would go there to get medicine. If you went to the doctor, they might give you a prescription and you would go there to get your prescription filled. Or you might go there to just buy over the counter medicine. Medicine where you don't need a doctor's note or prescription to get it, like Tylenol or something like that. We also just went by a dance studio. So if you have children who want to learn to dance, you would sign them up to go for dance lessons at the dance studio. Now this is an interesting place. This is a laundromat, but it's also a place where you can buy water.
4:40 You might wonder why would people need to buy water in Ontario, Canada? And why would they do laundry here instead of at home? Well, if you can't afford a washing machine, you will more likely come to a laundromat and pay some money to pay to get your laundry done to wash your clothes. And we have a lot of people who live out in the country around here. So some people actually do buy water. Jen and I get our water for free. Because when you live out in the country, you don't have clean drinking water available. Here we have a dollar store, but it's actually vacant right now. So let me talk about both those things. A dollar store is a place where you can buy things for only a dollar or $2, sometimes more.
5:27 They've kind of lost their meaning. But that dollar store is vacant, which means that they weren't doing well as a business. And eventually they decided to leave. So Bob, from the future here I realized that the Dollar store is actually open. If you look here, I said it was vacant, that side is vacant, but this side is actually open. So I wonder if they just reduced the size of the store. It's half the size that it used to be, but it's definitely open. Art, craft supplies, cell phone accessories electronics and hardware, kitchen stuff. Everything that, everything that you could want for less than, usually less than $5.
6:14 Here we have a post office. If you look, you can see it's also in French on the sign. A post office is a place where you go to send mail or to get your mail. Probably the most common thing you would do at a post office is you would go there to get your mail. You would go to the post office and you would have a little post office box and a key and you would open that to get your mail. This is actually the post office where my post office box is. Then we have some services. This is an insurance company. So in Canada when you buy a car you have to have insurance to drive it. So if there's an accident you're covered. That's the expression we would use. If you have a house, you need insurance so that if there's a storm
7:01 and something gets damaged, your insurance company will pay for it. Next to that we have a hearing clinic. So if you're having trouble with your hearing or you need a hearing aid, would go there. Next we have what we would call a hair salon. So it says hair salon and spa and they can take walk ins. I'm not sure if you can see that part of the sign. So I could walk right in there and pay for a haircut. I would probably have to wait a little bit though. But you can also get your nails done there. You can have a facial, a manicure, a pedicure. And they service. Oh they'll take men, women, children, they'll take everybody. So then we have what's called an employment help center.
7:47 So this is where you would go if you were looking for a job. In Ontario, Canada we have places where if you don't have work, you can go there every week and you can find out if there are any new jobs available that you can apply for. So that's the employment help center. And then we have what's called a bar. You might just call it a restaurant. It's kind of both. There are many restaurants / bars in Canada where the front part of the of the place is a restaurant, but at the back they do have an actual bar that you can go to. Now, there's a large truck here, so we can't see. But this next place
8:34 is a chiropractic office. Let's see if we can see up behind there. See the sign a little bit. Obviously they're getting a delivery. But a chiropractic office is a place where you would go like, let's say my back hurt. I might go to a chiropractor and they might adjust my back. They might do things to my back to make me feel better. Let me see here. Oh, and then we have. I go back here. We have the dental center. More commonly, we would just call this the dentist's office. You go to the dentist when you need to have your teeth cleaned or maybe you need a filling because you have a cavity. You would make an appointment
9:21 at the dentist's office. Next to that we have a yoga and fitness studio. A place where you can go if you would like to do yoga. A place where you might go... Sorry I'm just... I'm just watching here. I think this person's having a little bit of trouble and that man is helping her drive. So I'll just stay over here where it's safer. So yoga studio. If you want to do yoga or maybe any other class, you could go there. And then we have... I don't know how to describe this. This is called Giant Tiger. This is a store that sells almost everything. And it's also a store where things
10:06 are priced reasonably well. So you can buy groceries at Giant Tiger, you can buy a pool noodle at Giant Tiger, you can buy clothes at Giant Tiger. So. So the best way for me to describe it would be it's almost like a mini department store. When you go in, you can go to the clothing section, you can go to the food grocery section. You can go to the seasonal section where you can buy little kids pools and things like that. Then we have another nail and spa place. I think this place actually focuses more on nails and is less of a spa. I think it's mostly a nail salon. And then at the end here, I'm going to cross quickly,
10:52 make sure I don't get run over. That person was going a little fast for me. And then we have a pizzeria or what you might call a pizza shop or a pizza place. We have a lot of pizza places in Ontario, Canada. Yes hello. I have students waving to me from the gas station over there. I'll talk about that in a minute. And then here we have a sub shop or subway where you can buy what we just call a sub now. I think the full name is a submarine sandwich. I'll put a picture on the screen so you know what I'm talking about. So a pizzeria or simply a pizza restaurant or a pizza place and then also a Subway.
11:38 And we're at the end. I just want to show you there is one more vacant store down here and it is for lease. If you were thinking of coming to Ontario, Canada to start a business, you could start it right there. And then lastly, often you will have a gas station in a place like this. A place where you can go to buy gas. Again, in Canada we say gas. So either your car takes gas or diesel and you would go there. Oh that was loud. I guess the truck's moved from down there where we were earlier. You could go there when you need to fill up your vehicle. So if you are running on empty, if your car needs gas, if your car is empty, you
12:25 could go there to buy gas. Well hey, thanks for joining me on this little walk and talk. Hopefully you were able to learn some new English words and phrases along the way. It was kind of daunting. That means difficult to do this all in one take, but it was quite enjoyable. I might do more of these in the future. Anyways, if this is your first time here, don't forget to click that red subscribe button. Give me a thumbs up and leave a comment below. I love to read them. Bye.
