Unit nine shopping

VOCABULARY

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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