2015-09-06
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Match the kinds of places where you can buy things with their definitions.
| 1. bazaar 2. mobile shop 3. tobacconist's 4. boutique 5. department store 6. kiosk 7. market 8. ironmonger’s 9. booth 10. shopping arcade 11. shopping centre 12. shopping precinct 13. stall 14. supermarket 15. stationer's | a) a shop that sells tobacco, cigarettes etc b) a shop that sells equipment and tools for your home and garden c) a tent where you can buy things d) a large shop divided into smaller parts, in each of which different types of goods are sold e) a large shop selling mainly food where one serves oneself f) a table or small open-fronted shop in a public place g) shop for the sale of cheap goods of great variety h) a part of town limited to shopping; often without cars i) a shop that sells stationery j) a covered moveable shop k) a small open hut, such as one used for selling newspapers l) a small shop selling fashionable clothes m) a group of shops of different kinds, planned and built as a whole n) a covered passage with a row of shops on either side o) open place where people meet to buy and sell goods, especially food |
Exercise 2
Shopping habits like everything else have changed a lot in the past twenty years. It was not long ago that names like Hypermarket, Boutique, Cash and Carry, Discount Store, Do-it-yourself Supplies had little or no place in our streets. My grandfather still refuses to shop in any of these places. Say where you think he could go to buy the following things.
| a copy of Time magazine a dozen pink carnations a gold fish a seventeenth-century clock a packet of one-inch nails and a hammer some writing paper and pens an ounce of pipe tobacco and a box of matches a pair of sheets and pillow cases a pair of patent-leather lace-shoes a bar of perfumed soap, vitamins and aspirin a teddy bear some new records and cassettes light bulbs, batteries and plugs a new pair of glasses an expensive evening dress an interesting book | draper’s tobacconist’s shoe shop music shop bookshop toy shop household goods shop pet shop ironmonger’s optician’s florist’s antique shop boutique chemist’s newsagent’s stationer’s |
