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CourseUnit 14

Buying Gifts and Souvenirs

Listening for information (1)Listen to the dialogue between Naomi and a store clerk and try to understand it without looking at thewords in your book.

Now you can look at the Key Words while the teacher explains them.

Naomi decides to buy some gifts and souvenirs before she leaves London.
Store Clerk: Can I help you find something?
Naomi: Yes, does this scarf come in beige?
SC: No, we don’t have it in beige. . . only in orange, red, and grey.
N: Oh, I see. And it’s on offer, right?
SC: Yes, it is. All our scarves are 20% off today and tomorrow.
N: And what about the hats?
SC: They are normal price.
N: OK. I’ll take three orange scarves and four grey ones. Could you gift-wrap them individually?
SC: Anything else? We sell souvenirs, too. Some mugs, fridge magnets, T-shirts and more. . . They are right overthere.
N: All right. Let me browse around the shop.

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souvenir 			on offer (UK) 		
gift-wrap		
individually		
fridge magnet		browse			◎ensive30 Day Int

Coursea thing kept as a reminder of a place you have visited=on sale (US) available to be bought at a lower price than normal
wrap a present with attractive coloured paper
separately, not together in a groupa piece of iron that attracts similar objects used for decorating the outside of a refrigerator

look at the goods in a shop without a particular purpose

Role-playing						Checking out

Listening for information (2)Listen to the dialogue between Naomi and a hotel clerk and try to understand it without looking at 		the words in your book.

Now you can look at the Key Words while the teacher explains them.

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CourseNaomi: Excuse me. Could you tell me what time I have to check out tomorrow?
Hotel Clerk: You’ll have to leave your room by 12pm.
Naomi: OK. Thank you.
(Next day)
I’m checking out. Here is the key to my room.
Hotel Clerk: Thank you. I’ll just print out your bill.
(Naomi reviews her bill carefully)
Naomi: My bill says that I owe £10 for a movie, but I never ordered one.
HC: Let’s see. It says that you were charged Wednesday at 8pm for the movie “Love Story”.
N: That’s absolutely wrong! I was out at a restaurant in the City Wednesday evening.
HC: OK, let me see what I can do. . . Yes, we can take the £10 off your bill.
N: Thank you for taking my word over the computer’s word. By the way, is there somewhere I can leave my bags
until the evening?
HC: Yes, you can leave them in our storage room. And thank you for staying with us, Ms Abe. We hope to see yousoon.
N: Thank you.
Key Words
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have to pay someone for somethingask someone for a particular amount of money
putting things away and keep them until you need themRole-playing

Vocab Review		

Match the words with the meanings.

teller			cash machine (UK) 		
by the way			
shop assistant (UK) 		
stand			fitting room			label			3OOKSTUDENT’S B

the ticket on the dress showing the size and pricethe rail on which the dresses are hungsmall room where dresses can be tried on= ATM (US)= sales clerk (US)used when saying something not related to the subject you were talking about before=cashier an employee of a bank who receives and pay out money