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Additional Vocabulary
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| · consumer goods · manufactured goods · commodities · merchandise · purchase · shopping round/tour/trip · to go shopping · to do the shopping · to shop for · to do window-shopping · cash register/cash desk · to expose goods for sale · to be on the counter for sale · to be on display · to be on sale · to be in/out of stock | · shopper/buyer/customer · compulsive spending addict/shopaholick · to be attended to · to be served · to queue up (for) · to stand in line (Am E) · the shop carries the best lines of shoes · the shop deals in · to be in great demand with the public · a run for kid gloves · to run out of · to be short of · to sell out · to be sold out in a jiffy · to have a wide/scanty choice/selection/range of |
Exercise 4
Fill in the blanks.
What kinds of shops cater for people’s needs?
If we need c_ _ _ _ _ _ _ goods, we go to a d_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ store with a floor “everything for men” – where we can buy everything, from a pair of s_ _ _ _ to full evening dress, a floor for women – everything including l_ _ _ _ _ _ _ and f_ _ _ _ _ evening wear, a floor for children, a coffee bar and a restaurant, markets and supermarkets, b_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _, second-hand shops, s_ _ _ _ _, kiosks, etc. If we shop for food we go to the baker’s, grocer’s, greengrocer’s, butcher’s, etc.
There are f_ _ _ _ _ _ stores which specialize in ultra-feminine and avant-garde wear for shoppers to whom money is no object. All of them are worth a glance.
The Ukraina department store puts the emphasis on men’s w_ _ _, but women are well-looked after too.
Exercise 6
Put each of the following words and phrases into its correct place in the passage below.
| advertising purchases employ goods handles | store services merchandise section personnel | department travel agency sales promotion records price | shopping optician’s staff financial |
Department Store
A department store is a ……. which sells many different kinds of goods, each in a separate ……. Modern department stores serve the needs of entire families. People enjoy ……. in such stores because they can make all their ….. under one roof.
The typical department store occupies one large building, with separate departments located on a number of floors. A number provide special ….., such as a …... or ……...
Department stores …… hundreds of people for different jobs. Employees buy, ….., and sell the …….The ………manager and his ….. promote the sale of ….. through ……. and other techniques. The comptroller heads the ….. that keeps …… and manages the store’s ……. affairs. The ……. staff hire employees and ……. other employment problems.