STEP-BY-STEP PROJECTS 1

UNITS 9&10 Design a shopping mall

1 Work in pairs. Answer the questions. Then read the Introduction to check your answers.
1 Why do people like shopping malls?
2 What types of stores do you usually find in a shopping mall?
3 What else is there in a shopping mall?

Introduction
People like shopping malls because they can find a lot of different
stores in one place. Shopping malls are usually inside one or several
large buildings so people can stay out of the weather while they shop.
Escalators and walkways connect the different stores and levels.
Shopping malls usually include large department stores, and smaller
stores such as clothing stores, electronics stores and sporting goods
stores. Apart from shops and services such as restrooms and ATM
machines, there are cafés and restaurants. Many shopping malls also
have movie theaters and sports clubs.
2 Work in groups. Follow the steps to create your own shopping mall. Take turns making notes.

Step 1 Choose the stores
■ Which kinds of stores do you want to include –
sporting goods store, clothing store,
electronics store … ?
■ Each member of the group chooses one store. Give
your store a name – Sportsmania, Trends, Pi Store …
■ What other services do you want in your shopping
mall – restaurants, movie theaters, a sports club … ?
We should have one or two clothing stores.
Step 2 Make a map of your shopping mall
■ Draw the outline of your shopping mall. What shape
is it? How many levels does it have? Where’s the
main entrance?
■ Add outlines of the different shops. Choose the best
place and shape for each shop.
■ What other things do you need to add to the plan –
restrooms, ATM machines, stairs … ?
Let’s make the shopping mall rectangular.

I’d like to have a sporting goods store because This is the best place for the sporting
I like sports. goods store.

Why don’t we have an electronics store?
I want to call my store
Sportsmania. What do you think?
That’s a great / a good / an interesting
idea.
How about having a food court
with different restaurants?
I think the clothing store should be
next to the sporting goods store.
We need to add some
restrooms and ATM machines.
Why don’t we put the restrooms here?
That’s a good/great idea.

Restrooms

Restaurant
Café
Stairs
Stairs

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UNITS 9&10 Design a shopping mall

Step 3 Prepare your store

■ Draw the layout of the store you chose in Step 1. Copy the shape from the shopping mall map.
■ What do you need to include in your store layout – a window, shelves, fitting rooms … ?
■ Make a list of items to sell in your store and give each item a price.

Trends
Fitting rooms
shirt – 25 dollars
jeans - 30 dollars
T-shirt - 15 dollars
Door
coat - 50 dollars
Table

Window
Shelves

Step 4 Make a TV or radio ad Step 6 Visit other shopping malls

■ Give your shopping mall a name.
■ Make a list of your shopping mall’s unique features
– 12 stores, new fashions, great food …
■ Write a script for a 15- or 30-second TV or radio ad.
■ Record or shoot a video of your ad.
Come and celebrate the opening of the
Grand Central shopping mall, the biggest
shopping mall in the area. There are 12
shops at Grand Central including …
Step 5 Open your shopping mall
■ Play your ad for the rest of the class.
■ Present your store to the class.
■ Role-play a store scene.
■ You are a store clerk in your store.
■ A student from another group visits your store
and asks to buy something.
■ If the item is on your list, tell him or her the
price.
■ Does the other student buy it?
■ Watch the other groups present their
shopping malls.
■ Visit some of the stores and ask to buy
some things.
■ Discuss the different shopping malls.
Which shopping mall had the best stores?
Did you find things to buy in the stores?
Which was the most original shopping mall? Why?
Grand Central had the best stores.
I liked Grand Central because it
had a sporting goods store.
The design of the building was unusual.
It had the best services.

May I help you?

Yes. I’d like a shirt, please.

Would you like the white or green shirt?

Can I have the green shirt?

Yes, of course.
How much is it?

Sorry, could you repeat that?

It’s 25 dollars.

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