Answer the following questions. 1. What is online shopping?

1. What is online shopping?

2. What can consumers buy from an online store?

3. Why do many people choose to conduct shopping online?

4. What is the difference between brick-and-mortar store and online store?

5. How can consumers do shopping through online shops?

6. Why do some people prefer to go shopping?

7. What doesn’t online shopping permit customers?

8. What discourages some customers from participating in online shopping?

9. What are reasons some consumers avoid shopping online?

10. What is a potential inconvenience that some shoppers may not wish to face?

11. How do you prefer to do shopping? Why?

Translate the following word combinations into Russian.

1) the emergence of the World Wide Web

2) household appliances

3) merchandise

4) a brick-and- mortar store

5) to log onto the Internet

6) virtual shopping cart

7) wee hours of the morning

8) social interaction

9) the victims of identity theft

10) to try on apparel

Give the definitions for the following words.

Shopping, shopaholic, shop assistant, shopping bag, shopping mall, shop window, shopping list

Think of the nouns that are used with the following verbs.

1) to buy

2) to visit

3) to make

4) to find

5) to touch

6) to conduct

7) to avoid

8) to surf

9) to provide

10) to discourage