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a purchase cheap / expensive style, design
the grocer’s winter / summer clothes cut
the butcher’s a department for overwear to come into fashion
the fishmonger’s underwear all the vogue
the dairy’s ready-made clothes up-to-date
the baker’s tailor-made clothes drab
the greengrocer’s the right size to be long-wearing
the confectioner’s a tailor’s shop plain
off-license shop footwear flowered
the outfitter’s a single(double)-breasted suit striped
knitted goods gloves pin-striped
the jeweller’s a mitten chequered []
the bookseller’s a wind jacket dotted
the stationer’s a dress shoes
perfumery a gown patent-leather
the haberdasher’s a pinafore dress pumps
the florist’s a blouse suede
a counter a skirt flat-heeled
a cashier a dressing-gown / house frock high-heeled
a cashdesk tight-fitting boots
to weight trimmed with fur high furlined boots
goods to wrap up laced (shoes, boots)
a customer to try on sandals
scales to fit slippers
a department to match, to go with trotters
a department store a fitting-room Wellingtons
fashionable to suit, to become
Ex.1. Ответьте на вопросы.
1. Why can’t people do without shopping?
2. Is shopping more popular with boys or girls? Why?
3. Who does the most of the shopping in your family and where?
4. How often do you go shopping?
5. Do you enjoy shopping? Why or why not?
6. What do you like to shop for?
7. What kinds of shops do you like most of all? Why?
8. Is it better to go shopping on your own or with friends/ family? Why?
9. If you had a lot of money, how would you spend it?
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