1. Look through Chapter 1 and conclude what you have known from it.
Write down the points you can talk about.
2. Where to buy a gift to your friend or a business partner?
a) Read the title of the passage and the introduction to it.
About how many cool malls are you going to read?
b) Read the passage. Be careful with the pronunciation of proper names.
Look up the transcription.
The 11 Most Incredible Shopping Malls In The World
The world's coolest malls are much more than places to go shopping.
You can practically vacation or even live inside these malls. Not only do they boast a variety of shops, but everything from wedding chapels to indoor ski slopes.
1. Siam Paragon
Location: Bangkok
Gross Leasable Area: 2.5 million sq. ft.
Why it's cool: Siam Paragon is the ninth largest mall in Asia, complete with a movie theater, opera hall, bowling alley, karaoke, 5-star hotel, art gallery, and Siam Ocean World Aquarium.
Opened in 2005, it includes a variety of specialty stores and restaurants as well as a gourmet grocery store. The Gourmet Market is a unique 8,000 square meter internationally oriented grocery store on the ground level of the shopping center. It carries a vast selection of top imported competing brands and foodstuff items from various nations in Europe, Japan, Korea, and Malaysia, as well as quality exotic brands such as those from Sri Lanka.
2. Mall of America
Location:
Bloomington, Minn.
Gross Leasable Area: 2.77 million sq. ft.
Why it's cool: This massive mall has a theme park and a wedding chapel, where more than 5,000 couples have been married since its opening.
Mall of America opened in 1992 and is the third largest mall in North America. The mall has a gross area of 4,200,000 sq. ft. available as retail space. That's enough to fit seven Yankee stadiums inside of it!
Mall of America is the most visited shopping mall in the world with more than 40 million visitors annually (or roughly eight times the population of the state of Minnesota). Spending 10 minutes in every store would take a shopper more than 86 hours to complete their visit to Mall of America. The mall includes a cinema, Nickelodeon Universe theme park, aquarium, adventure golf, flight simulators, and a comedy house.
3. Mall of Emirates
Location: Dubai
Gross Leasable Area: 2.4 million sq. ft.
Why it's cool: Although it features the usual amenities for a mall (a fourteen-screen movie theater, a gaming arena, the typical variety of stores, and a drama theater), its biggest claim to fame is the Middle East's first indoor ski slope, Ski Dubai.
With the ski area, one of the largest in the world, the Mall of the Emirates sets itself apart from the dozen or so other newly completed malls in Dubai and the surrounding emirates.
4. What shopping center Ala Moana Shopping Center
Location: Honolulu
Gross Leasable Space: 200 million sq. ft.
Why it's cool: The Ala Moana Center is the the largest open-air shopping mall in the world and also boasts one of the largest food courts in the world.
The Ala Moana Center is the the fifteenth largest in the United States. Built in 1959, the center targets its marketing on tourism. They even provide brochures in Japanese, one of its major clientele. There are more than 290 shops and restaurants, including boutique stores of leading fashion designers. In a June 26, 2009 report from US News and World Report, Ala Moana was ranked as the second most profitable mall in America based on sales per square footage, and also had one of the highest occupancy rates.