3. Do you like shopping?
How often do you go shopping?
What are your favourite shops?
What do you like to buy when you go
shopping?
Have you ever bought anything using the
Internet?
4. Make a test
For each of the six questions choose the one correct answer
1. After you have paid for something in a shop, you get ________.
a. a receipt
Check
b. a recipe up
c. a bill
d. an invoice
2. What do you say in a shop if you only want to look and not buy?
a. I'm just browsing
b. I'm just surfing Check
c. I'm just shoplifting up
d. I'm just viewing
3. In a supermarket, where do you pay?
a. At the check-in
b. At the check-out Check
c. At the check-on up
Continue
d. At the check-off
5. 4. In a shop what do you call the small room where you can try on
new clothes before you buy them?
a. guest room
b. wardrobe Check
c. change room up
d. fitting room
5. Which verb means to negotiate a price, usually in a market?
a. to barter
b. to dispute Check
c. to haggle up
d. to quarrel
6. Which of the following would you not say in a clothes shop?
a. A sliced loaf please
b. I'm just looking. Check
up
c. Can I try it on? Continue
d. I'll take it thanks.
6. 1.
b. Wrong. A recipe is a list of cooking ingredients.
c. Wrong. The word 'bill' has a number of
different meanings. Here are two of them: a bill is
a written statement of money that you owe for
goods of services. In American English, a bill is
also a piece of paper money.
d. Wrong. An invoice is a document that lists the
goods you have received from a person or
company and says how much money you owe
them.
7. 2.a. Correct. 'To browse' is a verb - the noun, a
'browser' is now also used as
the name for the kind of Internet software you are
using to see this page.
b. Wrong. Although the verb 'to surf' is used about
the Internet, it's not used
about shopping!
c. Wrong. 'To shoplift' means to steal from a shop.
d. Wrong. However, you could use the phrase ‘I’m
just looking’.
8. 3.
a. Wrong. The 'check-in' is where you have to go in
an airport before flying.
b. Correct. The 'check-out' is where you pay.
c. Wrong.
d. Wrong.
9. 4.
a. Wrong. A 'guest room' is a spare bedroom in a
house.
b. Wrong. A 'wardrobe' is a piece of furniture for
storing clothes.
c. Wrong. This room CAN also be called a 'changing
room’ but not a ‘change room’.
d. Correct. A 'fitting room' is where you can try on
clothes in a shop.
10. 5.
a. Wrong. 'To barter' means to buy something by
exchanging what you want
for something you have that the seller wants.
b. Wrong. If you 'dispute' something then you
disagree with it.
c. Correct. 'To haggle' means to negotiate a price.
d. Wrong. 'To quarrel' is a synonym of 'to argue'.
11. 6.
a. Correct. 'A sliced loaf please' is something you
might say in a bakery, not a clothes shop.
b. Wrong.
c. Wrong.
d. Wrong.
16. Read the dialogue:
Salesman: Hello! May I help you?
Customer: Yes, I’d like something for present.
Salesman: I think the best thing for you is a table light.
Customer: Can you show me it closer, please?
Salesman: Of course, here you are.
Tati is an interesting lamp characterised by its
extremely clean lines at art Deco tastes.
Customer: How much does it cost?
Salesman: It’s £315.00
Customer: Great, I’ll take it.
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