旅游英语 房玉清 Chapter 6.pptVIP

Chapter SixEnglish for Shopping In this chapter, you will learn: how to communicate with your clients about shopping, understand their needs, guide your clients to go shopping; how to bargain in English for your clients, discuss packaging and ways of shipment with sellers; Chinese etiquette of gift-giving; how to describe commodities in English Part One —— Open Your Toolkit Situation I —— In a Clothes Shop Situation II —— At an Antique Shop Situation I —— Background Information As a receptionist at a travel service, when you show the tourists to go shopping, the following seven steps are for your references: Situation I —— Background Information learn about what the tourists needs; tell a shop assistant what you’d like to buy; choose items; ask about prices; bargain; buy something; pay the bill Situation I C: Cathy, a tourist G: the Guide S1: Sales Clerk 1 S2: Sales Clerk 2 C: This T-shirt is nice .Clothes with Chinese characters are really popular overseas1. G: I like clothes like this too. The ones with smaller characters are even better. C: Exactly. Which colour is best? G: I think that colour is good. (to the saleswoman)Please show us that T-shirt. S1: What size would you like? C: Large. S1: This one is large. How about trying it on? C: It’s OK, not too large, not too small, and just right. Are there any other colours? S1: There’s also black and red. C: Then give me a black one. S1: Sorry. The black one only comes in medium. We’ve sold out of the large size2. C: What a pity! S1: Then, how about this style? I think it suits you too. C: I don’t like this collar. Situation I G: (to saleswoman1) Thanks. We’ve have a look elsewhere. See you later. G: Look, Cathy. These pants are nice. It feels nice; it must be so comfortable to wear. S2 You really have a good eye. This is pure linen3. Have a look at the cut of the pants, it’s very slimming. C: This one’s blue. I don’t really like it. S2 We have black ones too, I’ll get o