Unit 6 Shop fill you drop!

Inside view

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Conversation 1

Janet So, are you looking for anything in?particular?

Mark Maybe a T-shirt or a polo shirt.

Janet We could go into the covered market and?have a look at the shops in there.

Kate And what about you?

Janet I need some cosmetics化妝品from the Body?Shop on Cornmarket Street.

Kate And I'm looking for something to wear?to Jenny's party tonight. But nothing too?expensive. Anyway, look, let's go in here.

Assistant Can I help you?

Kate We're just looking.

Mark What do you think of this one?

Kate Hmm, it's OK, but I'm not sure green suits?you. Do they have it in other colours?

Janet What size do you take?

Mark Medium, I guess. Oh, here's a nice polo?shirt. I like the colour. It's a bit small,?though.

Janet Do they have it in a larger size?

Mark Yes, here we go. That's great.

Janet How much is it?

Mark Twelve pounds. That's not too bad. I'll buy?it.

Mark I'll have this, please.

Assistant That'll be 12 pounds please. ... Thank you.?... And here's your shirt, and here's your?receipt.

Mark Thanks.

Mark Look, I've really got to go. I'll see you at?the party tonight.

Kate OK.

Janet Bye.

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Conversation 2

Janet OK, Kate. Now it is time to find something?for you. What about this dress?

Kate Hey, that's lovely.

Janet Would you like to try it on?

Kate Yes, OK. Where are the changing rooms?

Assistant Just behind you.

Kate Thank you. ... What do you think?

Janet Well, it really suits you, but...

Kate ... it's a bit big. Excuse me, do you have?this in a smaller size?

Assistant What size do you take?

Kate Size 8,?I?think.

Assistant No, I'm afraid we don't. That's the last one.

Kate No, it doesn't really fit. OK, I'll leave it.

Janet Actually, I really like it.

Kate Why don't you try it on, then?

Janet OK. ... What do you think?

Kate Perfect. It really suits you.

Janet It's a bit expensive.

Kate Go on! You deserve it!

Janet OK, I'll have it. But I don't have enough?cash. ... Can I pay by credit card?

Assistant Sure.

Janet Thank you.

Assistant Please enter your PIN. ... And here's your?receipt.

Janet Thank you.

Assistant Thanks a lot.

Kate That was painless, wasn't it? But I still?don't have a dress for the party. Let's try?somewhere else.

Assistant Bye.

Girls Bye.

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Outside view

Part?1

Voice-over Do you have something you don't want?anymore? Maybe you'll just throw it away. Or you could sell it. How? Well, you might want to sell it in the newspaper classified ads. Or you could sell it on a bulletin board. You could put a sign on it. Or find a buyer. If you have lots of things you don't want anymore, you could have a yard sale or a garage sale. And today there is a new way to sell your things. You can sell them online. If you have something you want to sell online, Jessica Sherman can help you.

Jessica I'm an eBay seller. I can sell anything, from cars to pianos, to bikes, furniture, anything. Anything in an online auction. Here's how an online auction works. Let's say you want to buy something. You can type in what you're looking for here, or you can search these categories. See, you can buy all kinds of things. You can buy antiques, computers, musical instruments, you can even buy a house! Well, let's look at cameras. In an auction, people who want to buy this camera make an offer, say, $50. An offer is called a bid. And people who make bids are called bidders. There are 16?bids for this camera right now, and the top bid is $300 and the auction for this camera will end in nine hours. I help lots of people sell different things online. My customers might come to me, or I might go to them and we look at what they have to sell.

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Part 2

Jessica Lisa?

Lisa Hey!

Jessica Hi. It's Jessica. Nice to meet you.

Lisa You too.

Jessica How did you find me?

Lisa Well, I saw your flyer down at the coffee?shop.

Jessica Oh, great! What do you have here?

Lisa Well, I've got these five designer dresses,?and they all have original tags.

Jessica They look great, and the tags will definitely?help get a better price. How much do you?want to get for each dress?

Lisa Well, I'd like to get $50.

Jessica Probably get 50, but you might make a?little less.

Lisa That's fine.

Jessica Great. Well, let's do it! This is great. This?is cute!

Lisa Hm mmh.

Jessica Oh, I love this one. Let's post this one. You?know, Lisa, this is a perfect summer dress.?I think we should take the picture outside.

Lisa Good idea!

Jessica This is how it works. Lisa pays a fee?between two and ten dollars to put her?dress online.

Jessica I've got my camera right here.

Jessica I get 15% commission and the buyer pays?for the dress and the shipping costs. First I?take pictures. Then we'll decide how many?days we'll put her dress up for auction.?Three, five, seven or ten days.

Jessica Now, you have a choice of a three-, five-?or seven-day auction. What would you like?to do?

Lisa Well, um, how about seven days?

Jessica That's exactly what I would recommend.

Jessica After I take the picture, I list the item. To?do that, I enter the information about it.

Jessica Well, the description is really important. The details will help sell the dress. Oh, there are so many dresses online that we need to show how this one is unique. You know, we could put a reserve price on this.

Lisa Reserve price? What's that?

Jessica Well, a reserve price is when we set a?minimum price for the dress and if the bids don't reach that price, the dress won't sell.

Lisa What do you think?

Jessica In my experience, if we don't use a reserve price we'll get more bids, and it'll be much more exciting, and you might make more money.

Lisa Yeah, let's do it!

Jessica All right!

Jessica Now we agree to pay the listing fee. It's the last thing that we do, and the dress is up for auction.

Person 1 Yes, I shop online.

Person 2 Yes, I shop online.

Person 3 Yes, I shop online.

Person 4 I do not shop online.

Person 5 Yes, I shop online.

Person 4 I don't have a computer.

Person 6 I shop online all the time.

Person 5 I shop online once a month.

Person 3 I shop online probably every couple of months.

Person 1 I shop online three or four times a year.

Person 4 I shop in stores.

Person 2 When I shop online I buy CDs.

Person 7 I buy some of my supplies online.

Person 3 I usually buy books or music when I, when I, uh, shop online.

Jessica Now I check on the items I've listed. I?wonder how Lisa's dresses are doing! Are there any bids? We've got some interested buyers here! These dresses will definitely sell. At the last minute, you often see prices going up.

Lisa Hello?

Jessica Lisa?

Lisa Oh, hey Jessica! How did the auctions go?

Jessica I have some good news!

Lisa Yes?

Jessica We did really well. We sold all five dresses?for $210.

Lisa Oh, that's wonderful! Thank you so much!

Jessica Isn't that great? Well, I will be sending you a check in the mail.

Lisa Oh, thank you. Have a good day.

Jessica Great. Thank you so much, Lisa. Bye-bye.

Jessica These dresses sold very well. Now it's my job to make sure that we get paid and to ship the dress to the buyer. I think online selling is fun. And you probably will be successful if you've got great items, good descriptions說(shuō)明, and great photos. And you might make a lot of money.

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Listening in

Passage 1

Speaker 1］

Interviewer So, how are you enjoying yourself in St?Petersburg? What's it like?

Speaker 1?Oh, I think it is a very beautiful place.

Interviewer What sort of... Is it good for shopping??What do you buy in St Petersburg?

Speaker 1?Yes, there are things you should buy. Of?course, vodka is very good here and the?other thing very expensive is the caviar.?It is beautiful. Then there are the dolls.?What have do they say? Matrioshka?dolls.

Interviewer Matrioshka dolls. Those wooden dolls?that go inside each other?

Speaker 1?Yes, you take one out and open the top?and there is another one. You take off the?top and there is another. They get very?very small inside. Very small.

Interviewer OK.

Speaker 1 And of course, the chess. Because they?are very famous here in this part of the?world to play the chess.

Interviewer Yes. And what sort of shops are there??Where's it best to shop?

Speaker 1 Oh, here there are very good department?stores, where you can buy everything?that you like, clothes and everything.?And also, lots of small kiosks that?are very unique獨(dú)一無(wú)二的, owned by different?shopkeepers, you know. And they are all?over St Petersburg. Little kiosks and also markets that are very good. And there is a very good museum shop at the museum - at the Hermitage Museum.

Interviewer And what are the opening hours?

Speaker 1 At the museum?

Interviewer Well, all shops, generally. What are the opening hours ... for shopping?

Speaker 1 Yes. Usually, they open at around 10?o'clock in the morning and I think they are open to 7 o'clock at night; sometimes even longer, to 8 o'clock.

Interviewer And how do you, how do you actually buy things? How do you pay for things? I think, there is a slightly different way of doing this in Russia.

Speaker 1 Yes, you point to the thing that you?want to buy, which is usually behind the counter or something like that; and then you go to a cash desk to pay. And then you have to go back to the counter and then you take the thing you have bought.

Interviewer It sounds as though it's quite a long process.

Speaker 1 It is very interesting.

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Speaker 2

Interviewer So, how are you enjoying it in Cairo? What's, what's the shopping like?

Speaker 2 Oh, it's fantastic. And the shopping is absolutely great. Um, you can get everything from fantastic little wooden boxes. You can get backgammon boards. You can get all kinds of leather stuff-sandals and so on. Oh, and the thing that they're really famous for here of course, is the water pipes that they call it a sheesha.

Interviewer A sheesha. OK. That's the water pipe.

Speaker 2 That's right, yes. Yes, they like the smoking here.

Interviewer And where are the best places to shop?

Speaker 2 Well, I think the best place actually?here is to go, if you go to the mediaeval market. It's a commercial centre in the middle of Cairo and - er - they sell lots of fantastic souvenirs there. You can get spices, er, you can get gold and silver,?and copper stuff, and - er - they also sell your fruit and veg.

Interviewer Uh-huh. When does it open? When are the shops open?

Speaker 2 Well, the hours are very good. They open very early in the morning. They stay open till about 10 o'clock at night. You do have to remember, of course, that they take a very long lunch break. So, they are closed for this long time in the afternoon but they, you know, re-open and stay open until late. Oh, and the other thing you have to remember is that they - everything is closed on a Friday.

Interviewer Right, and how do you pay for things? Do you have to bargain for, for goods?

Speaker 2?Well, bargaining is absolutely a sport here. Uh, they, they do prefer cash always. I think some of the tourist shops will take credit cards but only in the tourist shops. When you start the, the bargaining, you've got to be, well, first of all, you've got to be definite and serious about what you're buying. But don't offer anything like the price that they're asking, the original price. You know, go in at about half the price of what they're asking you.

Interviewer That's fascinating迷人的. Thanks very much. Thank you.

Speaker 2 That's a great place.

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Speaker 3

Interviewer So, how's your visit to Venice? Is it?good?

Speaker 3 Oh, amazing. What a place. It's so?unique!

Interviewer Have you done any shopping? Is it a?good place to shopping?

Speaker 3 Yes, definitely. They're - you must go?and see the glass factories on Murano.?They're just something else. Quite?expensive but you can get little bits of?glass, really nice. Sheets of paper are?really nice.

Interviewer Yeah.

Speaker 3?Also, lace is just... exquisite lace.

Interviewer Yes.

Speaker 3?Carnival masks, also. All hand-painted.

Interviewer Yes, Carnival, yes. I've seen this.

Speaker 3 Then, the shops are amazing.

Interviewer And where's the best place to shop in Venice?

Speaker 3 OK, well, the main shopping street is a street from St Mark's Square to the Academmia Bridge. That's the main bit But if you like food, you have to go to the market at the Rialto Bridge. That's just great food. There's not that many department stores.

Interviewer No.

Speaker 3 There's just not room for them on the island.

Interviewer No. And what time do these shops open and close? What are the opening hours⁹

Speaker 3 Oh, they open in the morning at about 9 or 9.30. And then they close for lunch 12.30 or 1. They'll reopen again - in the winter, 3.30 to 7.30 and in the summer just a bit later - 4 to 8, say.

Interviewer Right. And how do you pay? Can you use credit cards or do you have to use cash?

Speaker 3?Well, you know, just use cash for the smaller items and they accept credit cards most places for the larger ones, but just make sure you get a receipt.

Interviewer Yeah. And are the shops open all week or is there one day when they ...?

Speaker 3 Yeah, oh, actually, Monday, they are traditionally closed.

Interviewer Yeah, they are closed. Right. Thanks. Well. Sounds very interesting.

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Passage 2

Speaker 1 Have you ever gone down to the local supermarket for some milk or bread and come out with far more than you intended打算?to buy? Then you've fallen for the top ten tricks to separate you from your money.?Here are the top ten tricks to make you shop.

Speaker 2 Number ten. Trolley or basket? Make up your mind.

Speaker 1 If you choose a basket, there'll be some?heavy goods by the entrance to make you choose a trolley. If you choose a trolley, there's a chance you'll want to fill it up. Make up your mind what you want to buy before you go into the store.

Speaker 2 Number nine. Watch out, there are vegetables about.

Speaker 1 Supermarkets often put vegetables and?fruit near the entrance, so that you fill your trolley with natural, healthy produce and feel good. The problem is, then you don't feel so bad about filling your trolley with unhealthy and expensive items.

Speaker 2 Number eight. If you can't find it, just ask!

Speaker 1?You'll notice that essential items like bread or milk are placed all over the store, so you'll spend more time looking for them. So if you can't find something, ask for help.

Speaker 2?Number seven. Take a shopping list and stick to it!

Speaker 1?Supermarkets often change shelves around, so that you're tempted to buy new products while you're looking for the things on your list. It's easier to resist temptation if you only put in your trolley what you planned to buy.

Speaker 2?Number six. Beware of the checkout!

Speaker 1?Supermarkets often place sweets and magazines at the checkout, because customers who are bored with waiting often add them to their basket or trolley.

Speaker 2 Number five. Smells good? Don't believe it!

Speaker 1 Many supermarkets pump the smell of?freshly baked bread into the store through the air conditioning to make you feel hungry. If you eat before you go, you'll be less tempted to add cakes and snacks to your trolley.

Speaker 2?Number four. How free is FREE?

Speaker 1?"Buy one get one free" is a common way to make people think they're getting a bargain. But this kind of offer may not be as good as it sounds. Sometimes it's a way of getting rid of old stock.

Speaker 2 Number three. Look up, look down.

Speaker 1 Eye level is buy level, so don't choose the first product you see, because it's usually the most expensive. Look for similar products higher up or lower down the shelves.

Speaker 2 Number two. Beware of loss leaders.

Speaker 1 Large supermarkets often reduce the price of key items, such as a popular brand of cereals or the latest films on DVD. They're designed to bring people into the shop, because they believe everything will be cheaper.

Speaker 2 And our number one top tip for?supermarket shoppers. Stay at home and shop online.

Speaker 1 Many large supermarkets allow you to?shop from the comfort of your own home, and will even deliver it to your door. If you shop online, you'll avoid all those expensive supermarket tricks. And even if there's a delivery charge, it will cost less than going to the supermarket and doing your shopping yourself.