1、SHOPPING 1. Do you like shopping? Do you often go shopping? YES OR LADIES: Yes, I do. I’m really keen on/ crazy about shopping. I take it as my hobby, whenever I got some time off, I’d like to go shopping. I’m afraid I can’t live without shopping. I feel as if addicted to it. NO OR
2、 MEN: Frankly speaking, I hate it, it is so tiring, I can never understand why some ladies keep going shopping, esp. those who just keep going without buying anything. 2. What places do you often go for shopping? PLACES: supermarket, hypermarket, local market, department store, clothing mal
3、l, emporium(商场, 商业中心, 大百货商店), marketplace, window shop, Well, in china/ Beijing/ my hometown, there’re many places to go, such as supermarket, clothing mall, but I like the local markets best, because I can buy something special/ unique/ there. Well, normally I’d like to go to the department s
4、tore, which has more comfortable environment and better service, what’s more, the quality of the goods are more reliable. Verbs for purchase: buy, purchase, have, take, 3. What things do you often buy? THINGS: clothing/ clothes, kitchen appliance厨房用具, office appliance办公用具, necessaries 必需品,
5、gift/present, books, shoes, food Since I like eating very much, so very often I’d buy some special food and cook it for myself. I don’t have to buy anything for the family, so I just buy some clothes that I like. As I was called book worm, the only place I’d like to go is book store.
6、4. Do the Chinese like to buy something through the Internet? Yes, there’re many people shop on line, which is said very convenient, but I have never tried for security reasons. Yes, it is very popular among young people esp. boys, who don’t like go shopping. 5. Who tend to do more shoppin
7、g? Man or Woman? Why? Surely women are more tend to do shopping, especially the house wives, who know much better about what to buy. It depends on what to buy, for furniture, normally it is man who does the shopping, while if I am not sure whether it’s true or not, but most of women do enjo
8、y shopping. On the contrary, man would normally do something else instead. 6. Describe a shopping center where you often go. KEY: (where, why) Actually, I don’t do much shopping, but there is one shopping center that I often go to. That is Xiu Shui Street?, which is located in the east of t
9、he downtown of BJ. It is a street mainly dealing with traditional Chinese clothes and some other unique, I may say it is foreign oriented, all the shop owners and assistants can speak some foreign language, which make the shopping of foreign friends easier. The reason why I often go is not to buy an
10、ything, but to meet some foreign friends so that I can practice my English. Normally, I’d like to go to Carrefour, from which I can buy comparatively better things with the lowest prices, and there are normally all kinds of things from daily necessaries to appliance, so that I do not have to keep
11、 walking in deferent stores. But I hate to line up for my turn to pay, sometimes I have to wait for about 30ms, which drive me crazy. to do some shopping; to go shopping 买东西 shopping centre 商业中心区 department store 百货商店 children's goods store 儿童用品商店 antique shop 古玩店 second-hand store 旧货店 cou
12、nter 柜台 stall, stand 售货摊 show window 橱窗 show case 玻璃柜台 shelf 货架 cash desk, cashier's desk 收银处 price tag 标价签 prices are fixed, fixed prices 有定价 discount 打折扣 change 零钱 to keep the bill 留发票 to wrap up 包装 free of charge 不收费 to deliver 送 be al sold out, out of stock 售空 shop assistant, sale
13、sman 售货员 saleswoman 女售货员 glassware counter 玻璃器皿部 enamel ware 搪瓷器皿 haberdashery 男子服饰用品 confectionery 糖果糕点 cosmetics 化妆用品 stationery 文具 fabrics 纺织品 dry goods 服装 ready-made clothes, off-the-peg, ready-to-wear 成衣,现成服装 men's wear 男服 women's wear 女服 underwear 内衣裤 sports goods, athletic equip
14、ment 体育用品 sundries 零星小物 toilet articles 盥洗用品 towel 毛巾 handkerchief 手帕 toilet soap 香皂 shampoo 洗发香波 soap 肥皂 laundry soap 洗衣皂 soap powder 肥皂粉 soap flakes 皂片 medicated soap 药皂 detergent 洗衣粉 cleanser 去污粉 tooth paste 牙膏 tooth brush 牙刷 toilet mirror 梳妆镜 hair brush 发刷 hair vaseline 发蜡 cos
15、metics 化妆品 lipstic 口红, 唇膏 face powder 粉 compact 粉盒 powder puff 粉扑 cold cream 香脂 vanishing cream 雪花膏 perfume, scent 香水 perfume spray 香水喷子 coat hanger 挂衣架 clothes-peg, clothes pin 晒衣夹 string bag, net bag 网兜 thermos bottle 热水瓶 cap, cork 热水瓶瓶盖 travellers' water bottle, water flask, canteen 旅行水壶 lunch box, canteen 饭盒 thread 线 needle 针 button 钮扣 zipper 拉链 key-ring 钥匙圈 torch, flashlight 手电 bulb 灯泡 battery 电池 lock 锁 watch, wrist watch 表, 手表






