The document provides a dialogue between a shop assistant and customer shopping for clothes, including exchanging greetings, asking about sizes, trying on items, and making a purchase. It also includes vocabulary for common phrases used in shopping along with British clothing sizes for shirts and shoes. The dialogue is meant to be role played between partners with students taking turns as the customer and shop assistant.

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1. Complete the dialogue with the shop-assistant's missing sentences.
2. Now read the following vocabulary and write your
own dialogue. Act it with a partner.
SHOP ASSISTANT
• Can I help you, madam / Sir?
• What size are you?
• The changing rooms are over there.
• Is it/Are they all right?
• What size (shoes / trousers /…) do
you take?
• It looks / They look very nice.
• Is it / Are they comfortable?
• That’s £15, please.
£20 –that’s £5
change. Goodbye.
• Thank you very much.
• Do you want anything
else?
• Yes, of course.
• No, I’m sorry.
CUSTOMER
• No, thanks, I’m just looking.
• Yes, please. I’d like…
• Excuse me, Have you got this /
these… in …?
• Small / medium / large, I think.
• Can I try it / them on?
• It fits / They fit me well.
• It’s / They’re a bit too…
• I’ll take it / them.
• How much is it / are
they?
• Here you are.
• Can I pay by credit
card?
3. Role-play in pairs and swap roles so that you are both a shop assistant an a
customer.
shirts shoes
13 34 3 36
14 36 4 37
15 38 5 38
15 ½ 39 / 40 5 ½ 39
16 41 6 39 / 40
16 ½ 42 6 ½ 40
17 43 7 40 / 41
What are your
measurements in
British sizes?
7 ½ 41
8 42
9 43
10 44 /45
IT – singular
THEY / THEM - plural
£24.35  twenty-four
pounds (quid) thirty-
five
50p  fifty pence (p)
€12.50 = 12.50€ 
twelve euros fifty
S A:
C.: Yes, please. I'd like a blue T-shirt and
a pair of jeans.
S.A.:
C.: Medium, I think.
S.A.:
C.: I like the T-shirt but these jeans are
too tight for me.
S.A.:
C.: They look great. Can I try them on?
S.A.:
C.: They fit very well. I'll take the T-shirt
and the jeans. How much are they?
S.A.:
C.: Here you are.
S.A.:
- Yes, of course. The changing room is over there.
- What size are you?
- What about these other ones?
- Can I help you?
- The T-shirt is $8.50 and the jeans are $22.95, so it's $31.45
altogether.
- $35. That's $3.55 change. Thank you. Have a nice day.
- OK. Do you like this T-shirt? And what about these jeans?