College English: Listening and Speaking Course 1

College English: Listening and Speaking Course 1 Unit 6: Shopping

Unit 6: Shopping • Part A • Part B • Part C • Part D Shopping

Unit 6: Shopping Communicative Function: Getting Information Listening Strategy : Recognizing Prices PART A

Unit 6: Shopping Pre-listening Task Listening Task Text :Where Can We Find Women’s Wear? Speaking Tasks PART B

Unit 6: Shopping Additional Listening : Defective Goods PART C

Unit 6: Shopping Home Listening ( 1 ) : The First Supermarket Home Listening ( 2 ) : Science and Daily Life PART D

Part A Communicative Function Getting Information In everyday life we have to deal with many kinds of situations that require us to obtain information from others. Different ways can be used to ask for information from different people.

Part A Listen to the dialogues and write down answers to the following questions. 1. Q: What information does the man want to get? 2. Q: What does the woman suggest that the man should buy? 3. Q: What information did the man get from the woman? He wants to know where he can buy a painting. He found out how much the dress cost as well as where he could buy it. She suggests that the man buy a tie for his cousin.

Part A Dialogue 1 M: Hi, Ann. W: Hi, Jack. M: Uh, listen, Ann, I was wondering if you could help me. W: Yes? M: Do you happen to know where I might buy a good painting? W: Let me think for a minute. Oh, yes, there's a new gallery, down on Green Street, that deals with art of all kinds. M: Oh, I know where you mean.

Part A Dialogue 2 M: Hi, Mary. You look great! That's a beautiful dress you are wearing. W: Thank you, Michael. M: Where did you buy it? I'd like to get one for my wife. W: I bought it at the No. 1 Department Store. M: Could I ask the price? W: Sure. It cost 168 Yuan.

Part A Dialogue 3 W: Can I help you? M: I need to buy a birthday present for my cousin, but I really don't know what to get. W: Well, we have a special on ties. That's always a good gift. M: Sounds like a good idea.

Part A Listening Strategy Recognizing Prices There are different ways to say prices in English. For example, $9.40 can be said nine dollars and forty cents, or nine dollars forty, or simply nine forty. In this part you will hear all three ways of saying prices.

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Part A Listen to the dialogues and write down the prices in the blanks only. $20.50 $50.95 $175.40 $50.80 $594

Part A 1. -How much is this blue tablecloth? -Twenty dollars and fifty cents. $20.50 2. -Can I help you? -Yes, I'd like this red vase. How much does it cost? -Fifty ninety-five. $50.95 3. -How much does this mobile phone cost? -One hundred and seventy five dollars and forty cents. $175.40

Part A 4. -May I help you, sir? -Yes, I'd like to buy a coat for my father. -What do you think of this gray one? It's soft and comfortable. -How much is it? -Fifty dollars eighty cents. -OK. I'll take it. $50.80 5. — May I help you, madam? — I like this sofa very much, but I was wondering if you could give me some discount. — If you really like it, I can give you 10% off. That will be 594 dollars. —All right. I'll take it. $594

Pre-listening Task Part B QUESTIONS

Part B Questions for discussion You are going to talk about shopping . Read the following questions and discuss them with your partner.

Do you enjoy shopping ? Why or why not? What do you usually buy when you go shopping? Where do you usually go shopping, supermarkets or department stores? Downtown or in campus stores? When you buy a dress or coat, which do you give first priority to: color, price, quality, style or brand name? Do you enjoy bargaining? Are you good at it? Part B

Part B Additional questions for discussion Are you interested in name-brand products? Why or why not? Have you ever had/heard of an interesting/unpleasant shopping experience?

Listening Task Part B Where Can We Find Women’s Wear ?

Part B • Exercise 1: Listening for general understanding • Listen to the tape once again and write down answers to the following questions. • 1. Where did the conversation take place ? • How many people spoke in the conversation? Who? • What did Ann and Mark want to do there ? In a department store There were four people speaking in the conversation. They were the receptionist, the salesperson, Ann and Mark To buy a dress for Ann

Part B Exercise 2: Listening for details Listen to the tape once again and choose the right answers to the questions you hear. 1. When did Ann and Mark go to the department store? a. In the morning. b. In the afternoon. c. In the evening. d. Late in the evening. a. In the morning

Part B 2. Which of the following can you infer from the conversation? a. They were regular customers of the shop. b. Mark had been to the shop before. c. Ann had been to the shop before. d. Mark and Ann were not very familiar with the shop. 3. What did Ann seem to give first priority to in buying her dress? a. Price and style. b. Color and price. c. Style and quality. d. Quality and material. d. Mark and Ann were not very familiar with the shop. b. Color and price.

Part B 4. How many dresses did Ann try on? a. None. b. Three. c. Two. d. One. 5. What can we learn from the conversation? a. Mark thought red suited Ann but blue didn't. b. Ann didn't like the white dress though it was on sale. c. Both Mark and Ann were satisfied with the blue dress. d. Both Mark and Ann preferred the fashionable dress. d. One c. Both Mark and Ann were satisfied with the blue dress. SCRIPT

Part B Where Can We Find Women's Wear? Mark: Excuse me, where can we find women's wear? Receptionist: On the second floor. You can take the escalator on your right. Mark: Thank you. Salesperson: Good morning. Can I help you? Ann: No, thanks. We're just looking. Mark: How about this red dress, Ann? It's very fashionable. Ann: I don't know. I'm not crazy about red. I think it's a bit too bright for me. Salesperson: How about this white dress? It's a new arrival for the season. Ann: Is it? It looks pretty. But is it very expensive?

Part B Mark: Let me see the price tag. It says $299. Ann: That's too expensive for me. I'd like something below $200. Salesperson: What about this blue dress? It's on sale. It's 10% off, so it's only $126. Ann: Mm. I like the color. Do you think it'll look good on me, Mark? Mark: I think so. Why don't you try it on? Salesperson: What size do you take? Ann: Medium. Salesperson: Here's a medium in blue. The fitting room is right behind you. Ann: (wearing the dress) What do you think of it, Mark? Mark: It's very nice. I think blue suits you. And it fits perfectly. Ann: Great. I think I'll take it. Mark: That's a good deal. Salesperson: Will that be cash or charge? Ann: Cash, please.

Speaking Task Part B

Part B Pair Work Listen to the dialogues and repeat after the recording. Practice the dialogues with your partner, playing the role of A or B. Then work with your partner to create your own dialogues by replacing the underlined parts with your own words.

Part B Dialogue 1 (In a department store) Receptionist: Can I help you, ladies? B: Yes, please. We are looking for a backpack. Receptionist: That will be in sporting goods, 5th floor all the way in the back. B: Thank you. Let's go, Betty. (At the sporting goods section) A: There are the backpacks. Goodness, they have all sizes and colors! What do you want?

Part B B: I'd like one that is big enough for weekend travel home, but that I can use at school too. A: Ok - medium then, not too big, not too small. I have a large travel one already, so I basically want a book bag. B: Here are the smaller ones. What color do you like? I'm getting a black one. A: I want something more cheerful-red, I think. And I want waterproof, so my books stay dry. B: That's a really good idea. We must read the labels carefully to see the quality. A: Yes, and don't forget PRICE. If we're going traveling, we can't spend too much. B: Color, quality and price: now let's decide.

Part B Dialogue 2 (At a supermarket) A: Oh, let's just go in the store a minute. I'm hungry. B: Ok, but just a snack. I'm going home to eat supper. A: Let's get some milk and may be bread. B: I don't really like milk. How about a soda? A: They say Coca Cola makes you fat. Milk is more healthy. B: Oh, if you want to be healthy, buy yoghurt. And put back those butter cookies you have in your hand.

Part B A: Alright! I'll get some fruit or some juice. How about this bread? B: It looks fresh—but you'll eat at home soon. A: But I'm hungry now! I'll get the bread and eat it at the bus stop. B: Don't forget the juice. A: I'll get two: one for you. B: Thanks. Now let's go.

Part C Additional Listening 1. What happened to the customer? They bought 2. The reasons for the mistake were threefold. What were they? The storekeeper The driver The sales some defective goods. was absent had mistaken his shop for a secondhand goods store was careless.

Part C 3. How did the storekeeper handle the customer's complaints? He apologized for He promised to He would refund the mistake. exchange the ladies purchases. half the price SKRIPT

Part C Defective Goods The other day, Mrs. White bought some bed linen at a small store near her home. The store had a good reputation, and Mrs. White had often shopped there before. But when she got home and examined the sheets, Mrs. White was shocked. One of them had a big hole in the middle, and another was badly stained. And two others were frayed at the edges. As you can imagine, Mrs. White was very angry and she went back immediately to complain. When she arrived, the store was closed and two other angry ladies were waiting outside. One of them told Mrs. White that she had bought some towels that morning, and the other lady said that she had purchased a linen tablecloth. In both cases the goods were defective. A little later some other women joined them, and they all told the same story.

Part C Finally the storekeeper appeared and let them in. The poor man looked very worried. He became very nervous when the ladies threatened to call the police, but he denied trying to cheat them. Then he explained what had happened. In his absence, the driver of a delivery truck had mistaken his shop for a secondhand goods store and had delivered a load of used material from a nearby hotel. The sales clerk had not bothered to check the delivery and had started selling the defective goods right away. The storekeeper apologized for the mistake and promised to exchange the ladies' purchases and to refund half the price. Needless to say he fired the careless assistant.

Home Listening ( 1 ) Part D

Part D Exercise Listen and complete the table Summer, 1930 Michael Separate self-service marketing dis-count Volume 6 million 17 Family Long Island 47

Part D The First Supermarket Today, supermarkets are found in every large city in the world. But the first supermarket was opened only about seventy years ago. It was opened in New York by Michael Cullen. Cullen was born in 1884 and died in 1936. In 1929, after nearly 30 years behind the counter of stores, he thought he knew a better way of selling groceries. In a bold letter to his bosses at Kroger Grocery & Baking Co., the 45-year-old sales manager put forward the idea of creating supermarkets, where prices were reduced on some products to encourage buying, and increased on others. Goods were to be placed on open shelves for easier reach and parking would be plentiful because the stores were to be located away from the crowded downtown streets. The advantages of the supermarkets were to be vigorously advertised on radios and newspapers.

Part D He never received a reply from the Kroger president because one of the president's subordinates intercepted the letter and rejected the supermarket idea out of hand. Cullen resigned from Kroger, moved to Queens, New York. In the summer of 1930 he opened the nation's first supermarket in a former garage. That original King Kullen store, long since closed, brought together the five elements of a modern supermarket: separate departments, self-service, discount pricing, chain marketing and volume dealing. Other King Kullen stores soon followed and in 1936, sales had reached $ 6 million from 17 stores. Today, Long Island-based King Kullen remains a family-owned business with 47 stores.

Home Listening ( 2 ) Part D Science and Daily Life

Part D space and technology SKRIPT Exercise • 1. According to the speaker, scientific discoveries have improved man's life in several fields. They are: • medicine; 2) 3) 4) • 2. In addition, the passage tells us that scientific discoveries have changed man's too. • At the end of the passage the speaker says that increasing attention must be given to • 1) • 2) communication transportation moral atmosphere the moral the practical applications

Part D Science and Daily Life Scientific discoveries have changed man's life a great deal during the past century. First of all, they have greatly improved material well-being in several areas of life. In the field of medicine, cures for life threatening diseases have enabled people to live longer. In communication the telephone and e-mail have made it possible for us to communicate with anyone in the world without leaving our homes or offices. Advances in transportation allow businessmen to fly across the ocean in the morning and return home the same evening. Space technology has put men on the moon. More efficient ways of using available resources, such as coal and solar power, have been explored.

Part D Scientific discoveries have also changed man's moral atmosphere. Ethical issues are raised by these discoveries. Should we keep a terminally ill person alive through drugs and machines or should we allow him to die in dignity? With advances in transportation has come the problem of pollution for nearly every major city in the world. If cities become uninhabitable, then such technical advances may come with too great a price to pay. Many people also question the wisdom of sending men to the moon when there are urgent problems that have not been solved on earth. During future years, increasing attention must be given to the moral as well as the practical applications of science.

College English: Listening and Speaking Course 1