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Q: Do your students know what the word 'shopping mall' means?

I've asked several times to no avail nobody had an answer for it. I tried explaining that a shopping mall was a place for you to go shopping. Named a few stores to give them the idea what it was, but still nothing..is this word not known or used at all here? 

11 years 15 weeks ago in  General  - China

 
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Same with the students that I teach.  They do understand the concept, however, but mine just don't use the word.  If they speak Chinese, they use work-around words.  If they speak English, they just generally tend to name the kind of store.

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not known by my students; neither is 'grocery store' or 'groceries'. They use supermarket. Grocery store is more common where i live. and pee and poo and bum 

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Actually, I think you mean "words" (plural) or "lexical item" because it is more than one word. smiley

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show this website !

http://eng.luogang.gov.cn/aboutus/live/91%7C103%7C123%7C164.html

that is tee mall in Guangzhou, hehe,,,,hopefully your students could understand ! Smile)

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or this website:  http://baike.baidu.com/view/257274.htm

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house/apartment

elevator/escalator

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maybe they made a little mistake, they thought it was "shopping more more more"

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