Complete the following dialogues using the sentences given below.
I. At the millinery department:
Customer: I'd like to buy the hat in the window.
Assistant: There are several hats in the window. …
Customer: Can you show me the one over there? The leather one.
Assistant: Ah! The leather one. Now, this is another leather hat, madam. It's better than the one in the window. …
Customer: I'd rather have the one in the window. …
Assistant: Certainly, madam. …
Customer: I'm not sure.
Assistant: … It is sixteen and a half.
Customer: Thank you very much.
Assistant: …
1. What size do you take?
2. Would you like me to measure your head?
3. It's smoother leather.
4. It goes with my clothes.
5. Thank you for the purchase.
6. What sort of hat do you require?
II. At the shoe department:
Customer: Excuse me. …
Assistant: Certainly, madam. What can I show you?
Customer: I'd like to buy a pair of fancy dress shoes.
Assistant: … Leather, suede, glace or I can offer you glitter stiletto shoes.
Customer: I like them. Can I try them on?
Assistant: Certainly. …
Customer: They're a bit tight. I have rather a broad foot
and a high instep. …
Assistant: I'm afraid, not in that style. …
Customer: Then, probably, leather shoes are better …
Assistant: Yes, they'll stretch:
Customer: Very well then. Thank you for your help.
Assistant: You're welcome.
1. They will give a little after wearing.
2. Have you got them in a wider fitting?
3. Can you wait on me?
4. How do they fit, madam?
5. Would you like to see another similar style?
6. What kind of shoes do you want, madam?
LEARNING FOREIGN LANGUAGES
TOPICAL VOCABULARY
BASIC WORDS
1) abridged (adapted) text
2) to acquire knowledge
3) to attend classes (lectures)
4) to have classes, to stay away from classes, before/ after classes
5) to check (the roll, spelling)
6) bad (official, dead, foreign, classical, native, first, second) language
7) mother tongue
8) to cut classes/ to play (hooky) truant
9) to comprehend, comprehension: listening comprehension, reading comprehension
10) etymology
11) idiom, idiomatic expression
12) dictionary (monolingual d., learner d., bilingual d., desk d., an abridged pocket d.)
13) to paraphrase v, n
14) to recite, recitation
15) slang
16) to transcribe, transcription, transcript
17) to chat v, n
18) to converse, conversation
19) to curse v, n
20) to define, definition
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21) to drill the class in the Present Simple
22) pronunciation drill
23) to teach (to learn, to acquire) a language
24) classroom notetaking
25) to explain, explanation
26) to interpret, interpretation
27) to misspell, misspelling
28) to narrate, narration
29) to punctuate, punctuation
30) to respond, response
31) to talk v, n
32) to tell
33) to transcribe, transcription
34) to cram v, n
35) rote learning
36) to speak up
37) to spell, spelling
38) to build up / to revise one's vocabulary
39) to translate (from, into), translation
40) word-perfect
41) learning style: visual, auditory, kinesthetic
42) writing implements: pen, ball-point pen, Biro, a kind of ball-point pen), pencil, crayon, felt tip, felt tip marker, typewriter, word processor
43)computer studies
44)Scotch tape (BrE) = Sellotape (AmE) (to fix with Sellotape)
45)language laboratory
46)to pronounce, pronunciation
IDIOMS AND EXPRESSIONS
47) small (block, capital, upper case, lower case) letters
48) question (leading, rhetorical, direct, awkward)
49) language class (activities, games)
50) it's Greek to me
51) to talk nineteen to the dozen
52) to talk rubbish
53) to talk a mile a minute
54) talk of the devil
55) to call a spade a spade
56) the talk of the town (street)
57) tall story (tale)
58) rule of thumb
59) a slip of the tongue
60) tongue/ brain twister
61) Hold your tongue!
62) Alma mater
63) to burn the midnight oil
64) to be on the tip of the tongue
65) to talk in broken (thick) Russian (English)
66) to start from scratch
67) stumbling block
PROVERBS AND SAYINGS
68)A man is never too old too learn. /Live and learn.
69)Dot your i's and cross your t’s.
70)Without rhyme or reason
71)Practice makes perfect.
72)There's no royal road to learning.
73)You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
74)You're never too old to learn.
75) A little learning is a dangerous thing. (A. Pope)
76) A thing well said will be wit in all languages. (J. Dryden)
77) Language is the dress of thought. (S. Johnson)
CULTURE WORDS
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The King's English (the Queen's) English, American English / British English /World English, Tower of Babel, British Council, Collins Cobuild English Language Dictionary, Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Modern English-Russian Dictionary, CALL - Computer Assisted Language Learning
VOCABULARY WORK
Exercise 1.
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