Series ID: EDKS-BVOC-ZH-0019 · Lesson No.019 · Shopping & Money · Pre-A1 → A1/A2 Bridge · 简体中文辅助
How to Learn Basic English Vocabulary (Chinese Edition) | Lesson No.019 | Shopping and Money | 购物与金钱英语词汇
Shopping vocabulary becomes useful when words connect to a real transaction.
购物词汇真正有用，是因为它们能连成一次完整交易。
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Quick read | 先看最重要的
Start with the transaction chain:
shop → choose → price → buy → pay → receipt → change
先把一次购物最基本的动作链学会：
商店 → 选择 → 价格 → 购买 → 付款 → 收据 → 找零
Core words:
shop/store · supermarket · price · cost · money · cash · card · pay · buy · sell · cheap · expensive · receipt · change · size
Core questions:
- How much is this?
- How much does it cost?
- Can I pay by card?
- Do you have a larger size?
- Can I try this on?
This page is the vocabulary layer | 这页只负责词汇层
eduKate Sengkang already has a broader whole-language Chinese Edition lesson, Shopping and Money | 购物与金钱.
This page does not duplicate that lesson. It builds the lexical network underneath it: shopping places, product words, price language, payment words, size/quantity language, transaction verbs and retrieval.
Research floor | 研究底线
British Council A1–A2 Vocabulary teaches practical everyday vocabulary by topic. Cambridge Pre A1 Starters also includes familiar shopping and money words in early learner materials.
Shop and store | shop / store
shop is very common in British English. store is very common in American English.
- go to the shop
- go to the store
Learn the variety relevant to you and recognise the alternative.
Shopping places | 购物地点
| English | 中文 | Useful phrase |
|---|---|---|
| shop/store | 商店 | at the shop |
| supermarket | 超市 | at the supermarket |
| market | 市场 | go to the market |
| shopping centre / mall | 购物中心 | at the shopping centre |
| pharmacy | 药房 | at the pharmacy |
People in shopping | 购物中的人
| customer | 顾客 |
| shop assistant / sales assistant | 店员 / 销售员 |
| cashier | 收银员 |
A beginner does not need every retail job title. Learn the words you meet.
Product | 商品 / 产品
- product
- item
- thing
In simple shopping English:
- this item
- this product
- this one
Price | 价格
- price
- the price
- high price
- low price
Question:
What is the price?
How much is this? | 这个多少钱？
This is one of the most useful beginner shopping questions.
- How much is this?
- How much is that?
- How much are these?
Simple answers:
- Five dollars.
- Ten euros.
- Twenty yuan.
Cost | cost
cost can be a verb or noun.
- How much does it cost?
- It costs ten dollars.
- the cost
Beginner phrase pair:
- price = noun
- cost = noun or verb
Money | 钱
money is usually uncountable in standard English.
- some money
- a lot of money
Not normally:
*a money
Cash | 现金
- pay in cash
- cash payment
- Do you take cash?
Card | 卡 / 银行卡
- pay by card
- credit card
- debit card
- Can I pay by card?
Do not share card numbers or sensitive payment details in vocabulary practice.
Pay | 付款
- pay
- pay by card
- pay in cash
- pay for the food
Notice the phrase:
pay for + thing
Buy | 买
- buy food
- buy a shirt
- buy a ticket
- I want to buy this.
Sell | 卖
- sell food
- sell clothes
- They sell books.
Contrast:
- buy — customer side
- sell — seller side
Cheap and expensive | 便宜与贵
- cheap — 便宜的
- expensive — 贵的
Phrases:
- a cheap bag
- an expensive phone
Question:
Is it expensive?
Cheaper / more expensive | 更便宜 / 更贵
- This one is cheaper.
- That one is more expensive.
This lightly introduces comparison. Full comparative grammar remains with deeper owners.
Discount | 折扣
- discount
- 10% discount
- on sale
Understand the words, but keep percentage mathematics with Mathematics owners.
Sale | 打折 / 销售
sale can refer to selling generally or a period when prices are reduced.
- on sale
- a sale
Do not assume every “sale” means every item is cheap. Read the actual price.
Receipt | 收据
- receipt
- keep the receipt
- Can I have the receipt?
Pronunciation watch: the p in receipt is silent.
Change | 找零 / 零钱
In shopping:
- change — money returned after payment
- Here is your change.
change has many other meanings. Learn the shopping meaning through context.
Coin and note/bill | 硬币与纸币
| coin | 硬币 |
| note | 纸币（英式常见） |
| bill | 纸币（美式可用）；账单也可叫 bill |
Regional vocabulary varies. Learn local money terms first.
Currency words | 货币词汇
Examples:
- dollar
- pound
- euro
- yuan
- yen
This page is world-facing. Do not treat one currency as universal.
Numbers + money | 数字与金钱
- five dollars
- twenty euros
- fifty yuan
Lesson 010 provides the number foundation.
Decimal prices | 小数价格
- $5.50
- £9.99
How prices are spoken varies by currency and region. Learn the real convention around you and from reliable local examples.
Quantity words | 数量词
- one
- two
- some
- many
- much
- a little
- a few
At beginner level, learn these through products:
- two apples
- some rice
- a little water
How many / how much | 数量问句
- How many apples?
- How much rice?
- How much is this?
Lesson 011 owns the beginner question-word map.
Size | 尺码
- size
- small
- medium
- large
Useful question:
What size do you need?
Larger / smaller size | 大一码 / 小一码
- a larger size
- a smaller size
- Do you have a larger size?
Try on | 试穿
- try on a shirt
- try on the shoes
- Can I try this on?
This is a useful clothing-shopping phrase. Lesson 017 supplies the clothing vocabulary.
Fit | 合身
- It fits.
- It does not fit.
- These shoes fit.
Colour choice | 颜色选择
- Do you have this in blue?
- I want the black one.
- Which colour?
Lesson 017 supplies the colour vocabulary.
Want and need | 想要与需要
- I want this.
- I need a new shirt.
- I need two bottles of water.
These high-frequency verbs turn product vocabulary into real requests.
This one / that one | 这个 / 那个
- This one, please.
- That one, please.
- I want this one.
one avoids repeating the product noun.
Which one? | 哪一个？
- Which one?
- The blue one.
- The small one.
Shopping phrase bank | 购物短语库
| go shopping | 去购物 |
| buy food | 买食物 |
| pay by card | 刷卡 / 用卡付款 |
| pay in cash | 现金付款 |
| keep the receipt | 保留收据 |
| try it on | 试穿 |
| a larger size | 大一码 |
| a cheaper one | 更便宜的那个 |
Money phrase bank | 金钱短语库
- some money
- five dollars
- ticket price
- pay for it
- cash or card
- your change
Basic shop dialogue | 超简单购物对话
A: Excuse me. How much is this?
B: Ten dollars.
A: Can I pay by card?
B: Yes.
A: Thank you.
Extract the reusable phrases, not the script only.
Clothes shop dialogue | 衣服店对话
A: Do you have this in blue?
B: Yes.
A: Do you have a larger size?
B: Yes. Here you are.
A: Can I try it on?
B: Yes.
Supermarket vocabulary | 超市词汇
- basket
- trolley/cart
- checkout
- cashier
- receipt
Regional terms vary: trolley is common in British English, cart in American English.
Checkout | 结账处
- go to the checkout
- at the checkout
- checkout counter
Online shopping recognition words | 网上购物基础词
- price
- product
- size
- colour
- cart / basket
- pay
- delivery
Keep online-shopping safety and payment details separate from vocabulary drills.
Delivery | 配送
- delivery
- delivery time
- delivery address
Do not practise by sharing a real private address publicly.
Return and refund | 退货与退款
- return an item
- refund
- Can I return this?
Retail rules vary by store and country; vocabulary does not imply a legal right in every situation.
Chinese → English retrieval | 中文到英文
- 价格 → price
- 钱 → money
- 现金 → cash
- 卡 → card
- 付款 → pay
- 购买 → buy
- 便宜 → cheap
- 贵 → expensive
- 收据 → receipt
- 找零 → change
Transaction order retrieval | 交易顺序提取
Put in order:
choose → price → buy → pay → receipt/change
This turns isolated words into a process.
Verb + noun retrieval | 动词搭配提取
- buy → food / shirt / ticket
- pay → by card / in cash / for it
- keep → the receipt
- try on → the shirt
Mini reading | 超简单阅读
“Lin goes to a shop. He wants a blue shirt. The first shirt is too small. He asks for a larger size. It costs twenty dollars. He pays by card and keeps the receipt.”
Find:
- three shopping verbs
- three money/price words
- two clothing words
Mini writing | 超简单写作
Write a six-step purchase:
- I go to the ___.
- I want ___.
- It costs ___.
- I pay by ___.
- I get a ___.
- I keep my ___.
Mini speaking | 一分钟购物口语
“I want to buy a black jacket. I ask the price. It costs thirty dollars. I try it on. It fits. I pay by card. I keep the receipt.”
Price listening | 价格听力
Practise number contrasts from Lesson 010:
- 13 / 30
- 15 / 50
- 18 / 80
Then put them into price phrases.
Vocabulary card model | 购物词卡
| Field | Example |
|---|---|
| Word | receipt |
| Chinese | 收据 |
| Phrase | keep the receipt |
| Question | Can I have the receipt? |
| Sound note | silent p |
Vocabulary card model | 金钱词卡
| Field | Example |
|---|---|
| Word | cash |
| Chinese | 现金 |
| Phrase | pay in cash |
| Contrast | pay by card |
| Sentence | I pay in cash. |
Seven-day plan | 七天购物金钱训练
| Day | Focus |
|---|---|
| 1 | shop/store/market/product/item |
| 2 | price/cost/cheap/expensive |
| 3 | money/cash/card/pay |
| 4 | receipt/change/coin/note-bill |
| 5 | size/colour/try on/fit |
| 6 | buy/sell/want/need/which one |
| 7 | mixed shopping dialogue + retrieval |
First weak link check | 第一个卡点
| Symptom | Likely weak link | Repair |
|---|---|---|
| I know money but not pay by card. | phrase link | payment phrase family |
| I confuse price/cost. | word job | noun vs verb examples |
| I say a money. | noun behaviour | some money |
| I cannot hear 15 vs 50. | number listening | price dictation |
| I forget after days. | spacing | delayed transaction recall |
For parents and teachers | 给家长和老师
- Use pretend money or price labels, not sensitive financial data.
- Teach a full transaction chain.
- Connect shopping to numbers, clothes and food.
- Note regional currency vocabulary.
- Do not turn vocabulary practice into financial advice.
- Return after a delay.
Connect to deeper owners | 连接更深 owner 页面
- Basic English Chinese Edition | Shopping and Money
- Primary 3 Mathematics | Money, Total Cost, Difference and Change
- Vocabulary Learning Hub
This page stays at the beginner lexical and communication layer.
Final check | 最终自检
Can you:
- name price/cost/money/cash/card?
- use buy/pay/sell?
- ask How much is this?
- say pay by card / pay in cash?
- use receipt/change?
- ask for a size or colour?
- describe one simple transaction?
- recall the words after a week?
Final rule | 最后一条规则
Learn shopping vocabulary as a transaction, not a random list.
把购物词汇学成一条交易流程，而不是一张随机单词表。
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