English Vocabulary for Spending Money and Shopping

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hello hello hello how is everybody doing

um i hope you can hear me all right

let me just move some things around okay

so

um today uh we are going to learn

um some new words and

they all have to do with spending money

spending money okay so we're going to be

talking about

money today and um if you didn't know

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but today we're going to be talking

specifically

about money and shopping

okay so i have three

new words or expressions for you

so the first one the first

word is splurge

splurge and um

if you don't watch the facebook

facebook live streams um the word

splurge

came up just yesterday uh in our our

lesson

so splurge splurge what does it mean to

splurge so

if you watched that lesson

you might already know what it means so

splurge means to spend

money um kind of freely like

an unnecessary things right

so for example um let's see

uh i usually save my money

but sometimes i splurge

on a good pair of shoes

i splurge on a good pair of shoes

that means i kind of spend freely

i don't care about the cost that much i

just spend the money to get something

nice

okay to splurge to splurge

um it can also be a noun so for example

um christmas christmas in the u.s is

a time when people spend a lot of money

so we could say

a christmas splurge like a something

splurge

um but a lot of the times we use it as a

verb

like to splurge on a fancy dinner

to splurge on some new clothes

okay so is there anything that you

splurge on what do you splurge on

um please write it in the comments so it

could either be

um you splurge on um

food on clothing or

on like study materials do you splurge

on um like books

it could be anything okay splurge

to splurge okay

the next one we have is shop

around shop around

so what does it mean to shop around

to shop around so

if you shop around you are going

to um different stores could be

physically

or online and you are comparing

prices okay so um i recently bought

a new refrigerator but uh before

i decided which refrigerator i was going

to buy

i went to many stores i did research

online and i found um

the best refrigerator at the best price

so the best quality at the cheapest

price

so i shopped around before buying

my refrigerator okay does that make

sense

so to shop around means

to go and find the best price

for an item okay

and then we have run up run

up so run up is a phrasal verb with many

different meanings and today we're just

going to focus on

one meaning okay we're gonna focus on

the meaning um

when it comes to debt or bills

okay so when we say run

up it means um you do

things and it creates uh

um it adds it to your

debt or to your bill okay does that make

sense

so it probably doesn't make sense let me

give you a better explanation

um okay so

let's say that i turned on

all of the lights in my house i turned

on all of the lights and i

left them on for a week

so by doing that action of

turning on all of my lights and keeping

them on for a week

i would probably run up

a an expensive electricity bill

okay i would run up my electricity bill

so putting the lights on adds up

boom so runs up a

high bill okay runs up an expensive

bill so we usually use

run up when talking about debt

or when talking about bills so run

up um a student loan debt

run up my phone bill okay

so you're adding things to your

debt that makes it higher and higher and

higher okay so you're gonna have

something expensive in the end

so i hope um you do things um

to not run up your debt not to run up

your bills

okay so for example um

uh i always turn off my lights

during the day as to not run up

an expensive electric bill okay

very good so let's look at the

definitions it's probably easier

than my explanation okay let's take a

look

okay so

does everyone see that all right okay

splurge

splurge spending money

freely and maybe like excessively

and um you don't really you don't really

care about the price it's okay to spend

a little bit more

okay so splurge on coffee

maybe you bought expensive coffee

splurge

on english lessons maybe you think

studying english in class is very

important so you

spend a little bit more on taking

some good english lessons okay

shop around shop around to shop around

okay so to shop around means to look

for the most suitable

item or service oops there it is service

for the lowest price for the lowest

price

so you go around to many shops and try

to find

um the best item or best service for the

best

price the lowest price okay this is a

very

smart way to not to run up a

shopping bill okay not run up your

credit card

so run up what does run up mean um you

do

things that cause you to owe a large

amount of money

so your actions

run up a large bill

or you uh you get a large debt

okay so maybe if uh if you don't

shop around you might end up

running up a huge credit card bill

okay so you use your credit card

here you buy some clothes here you buy

some shoes here

you tend to splurge you don't shop

around

just charging your credit card you will

eventually

run up a large bill okay

i hope that is understandable please let

me know if you have any questions in the

comments okay

so today is very simple we're just gonna

have

a quick quick lesson so

we have just three we're gonna use each

one of these

one time okay so

let's see number one he made

too many international calls

and a large

phone bill um what do you think is

the correct answer here

he made too many

international calls so if you make

many international calls um

you might make your

phone bill rather large right

so it is quite expensive to

call internationally if you don't use

specific services right so

he made too many international calls and

a large phone bill what do you think

okay i'll give you a second and then i'm

going to write down the answer

okay the correct answer

is

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and we're going to put it in the correct

tense also remember we want the correct

tenses

okay so

the correct words the correct answer i

should say is

ran up he made too many

international calls and ran

up a large phone bill he ran up a large

phone bill

very good okay how about number two

let's take a look at number two

okay uh let's see before

making a big purchase

before making a big purchase it

is important to

first so what are we going to do

first before we make a big purchase

so if you don't know to purchase

something means to

buy something so we can say make a

purchase

okay before making a big purchase

that means before buying something very

expensive a big purchase is something

expensive

so like a refrigerator or

a house or a new computer

okay does everybody have the answer

okay before making a big purchase

it is important to

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we're gonna say shop around

shop around

okay first so before making a big

purchase

before spending a lot of money it is

important

to shop around first okay

so you're gonna go you're gonna do your

research you're gonna look at different

prices at different stores you're gonna

look at different products

and you're gonna find the best product

for you

at the lowest cost shop around

very good very good okay

now this is the last one and it should

be obvious because we have

just one word left okay

so number three i love

cooking okay i love cooking at home

but sometimes i like to

on a fancy dinner at a nice restaurant

this says restaurant it's very small

i love cooking at home but

sometimes i like to

on a fancy dinner at a nice restaurant

okay oops there was a light blocking

uh the vocabulary words okay so does

everybody know

the answer you should okay

so the correct answer is

splurge splurge

splurge it sounds like a very funny word

right

splurge it doesn't sound like a very

beautiful word

okay i love cooking at home

but sometimes i like to splurge on a

fancy dinner

at a nice restaurant okay so

sometimes i like to spend a little bit

more money

and go out for a nice dinner okay

so i'm going to read this one more time

so please listen

and if you can repeat out loud

remember that speaking is the best way

to improve

and the best way to remember vocabulary

we need to use them

in order to to remember them okay

so number one listen and then try to

repeat if you can

number one okay

he made too many international calls and

ran up a large phone bill

okay i'm gonna say it one more time a

little bit quickly

all right he made too many international

calls

and ran up a large phone bill

okay were you able to repeat it out loud

if not that is okay um just come back to

this lesson and

and try to repeat okay very good

let's go on to number two okay

i'll read it a little bit slowly and

then i'll read it quickly okay

before making a big purchase it is

important

to shop around first

okay i'm going to say a little bit

quickly now

before making a big purchase it is

important to shop around first

okay very good all right let's try

number three

okay i love cooking at home

but sometimes i like to splurge on a

fancy dinner

at a nice restaurant

okay so i'm gonna say it a little bit

quickly

try to listen try to repeat okay

i love cooking at home but sometimes i

like to splurge on a fancy dinner at a

nice restaurant

okay very good i hope you are able to at

least

attempt at least try to repeat

okay so um they are kind of long

sentences

so if you can't um repeat very naturally

maybe try and read them out loud a few

times get used to saying these words

get used to saying these sentences and

then

come back and try to repeat after me

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