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Shopping on the Internet
Topic
Outline
On-line shops offer an interesting and practical context for the student
to develop language skills. The activities of the topic are varied with a wide
range of Slovenian products to choose from.
The major Slovenian search engine www.matkurja.com
has categorised a very extensive listing of shops: bookshops, florists, music,
computers and equipment, sports shops. The general section on shops includes a
wide array of small businesses: products include furniture, jewellery,
electrical goods, wine, catering, office supplies, hobbies and toys, art work,
cars and boats, leather goods, machinery.
This range provided by Matkurja allows the student to select a range of products
which are of interest. Alternatively, the student may look further through other
categories on Matkurja for other products. www.matkurja.com/eng/resources/business/
.This link includes: business directories and registers, entertainment, finance,
industry.
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Activity
1:
write a shopping list
of items selected from one shop in each category of online shops:
Bookstores
Mladinska knjigarna www.emk.si
Cankarjeva zalozba www.cankarjeva-z.si/
Drzavna zalozba
Slovenije zyphir.dzs.si/index.htm
Zalozba Obzorja
Maribor www.zalozba-obzorja.si/
www.matkurja.com/eng/resources/business/shops/books/
Clothes
www.neckermann.si/
www.matkurja.com/eng/search?keys=clothes&x=23&y=9
www.matkurja.com/eng/search?keys=fashion&x=26&y=5
Computers
and Equipment
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Hardware shops www.matkurja.com/eng/resources/computers/shops/shops-hardware/
On-line stores
/www.matkurja.com/eng/resources/computers/shops/on-line/
Software shops
www.matkurja.com/eng/resources/computers/shops/shops-software/
Florist
shops and decoration
Cvetlicarna Juvela www20.brinkster.com/zlatarnajuvela/cvetlicarna.html
Cvetlicarstvo Jereb www.jereb-sp.si/
Musik
Stores
www.matkurja.com/eng/resources/business/shops/music-shops/
Sports stores
www.matkurja.com/eng/resources/business/shops/sport/
Activity
2:
At the book store Mladinska knjigarna 1. write a selection
of books you would buy for members of your family and friends 2. select a reference
from each of the following categories on the web site: children’s
literature, guide books and tourism, art, culture and history,
encyclopaedias, language courses, reference books for adults, gift books,
language books www.emka.si/emka/classification/classi.asp?classi=18
Real
Estate
1. you are looking
for a property to rent and purchase in Ljubljana 2. write a selection
of suitable properties – write a description of each one www.matkurja.com/eng/resources/business/real-estate/
personal ads www.matkurja.com/eng/resources/business/real-estate/real-estate-personal-ads/
real estate agencies www.matkurja.com/eng/resources/business/real-estate/companies/
Activity
3:
read several conversation texts
about shopping www.trgonet.com/
Activity
4:
1. write a brief dialogue on
selecting items from an online shop. Perform it. www.matkurja.com/slo/resources/business/shops/
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noun
adjective
noun-
genitive
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pronoun-
possessive
pronoun-
demonstrative,
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accusative,
genitive,
locative case
numeral-
cardinal
formulaic
expressions
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advertisement
broshure
advertisement
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Activity
5:
1. write an advertisement on
products/services 2. select from the
range of businesses provided in the Slovenian search engine Matkurja www.matkurja.com/eng/resources/business/
categories of
businesses for selection include: advertising and
marketing, automobiles, companies, products, publishing and printing,
restaurants and bars, shops, telephone,
trade
Activity
6:
design a brochure for :
a shopping centre or
congress centre. See www.btc.si
Activity
7:
1. promote a Slovenian business or
organisation 2. research by
contacting or obtaining information from the website about services or
products 3. advertise for
radio, newspaper, magazine 4. select from the
range of businesses provided in the Slovenian search engine Matkurja www.matkurja.com/eng/resources/business/
categories of
businesses for selection include: business directories
and registers, employment, entertainment, finance, industry, products,
services.
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verb-
mood-
conditional
adjective-
comparative, superlative
complex sentences
verb-
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article
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Activity
8:
write an article
about a product/products available www.matkurja.com/eng/resources/business/
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webpage
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Activity
9:
1. design the home page of an
online shop www.matkurja.com/slo/resources/business/shops/
Resources
Books
Fallon, S, Slovenia,
Lonely Planet Publications, Hawthorn, 1995
Gosar, A, Jersic, M,
Slovenia, the Tourist Guide, Mladinska knjiga,
Ljubljana, 1999
Mihelic, Breda,
Ljubljana in okolica A – Z: prirocnik za popotnika in poslovnega cloveka,
Pomurska zalozba, Murska Sobota, 1996
Sega, Lidija, Veliki
Moderni Poslovni Slovar, Cankarjeva zalozba, 1997
Websites
www.emk.si
www.cankarjeva-z.si/
zyphir.dzs.si/index.htm
www.zalozba-obzorja.si/
www.matkurja.com/eng/resources/business/shops/books/
www.neckermann.si/
www.matkurja.com/eng/search?keys=clothes&x=23&y=9
www.matkurja.com/eng/search?keys=fashion&x=26&y=5
www.btc.si
www.matkurja.com/slo/resources/business/shops/
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