Fill in the words from the active vocabulary list

Match the words and their definitions.

Study the following words.

I. Vocabulary work

Shopaholic Ties the Knot

III. Follow-up activities

1. You are Becky’s friend. Work out some useful tips for Becky on how to be organized.

2. You are a bank manager. Explain to your client what the key to controlled shopping is.

3. You are a tour guide. Work out some useful tips for a person who is going to take part in a walking tour in a foreign town or city.

4. Itemize advantages and disadvantages of shopping at home vs. shopping abroad. Role-play an argument between a) a British shopaholic and an American shopaholic; b) a British shopaholic and a Belarusian shopaholic as regards the best shopping opportunities.

5. Agree or disagree: “You don’t actually need to see a piece of art in flesh to appreciate it.” Support your point of view.

6. Role-play an argument between a culture conscious person and a shopaholic as regards the best places to visit in a foreign country.

7. In pairs, role-play the following situation. A shopaholic has made an appointment with their psychologist. (a) The shopaholic suffers from their addiction greatly and would like to break themselves of this bad habit. They ask the psychologist for assistance. (b) The shopaholic will not acknowledge the fact that something is wrong with them and it takes the psychologist a lot of effort to persuade the client to discard their bad habit.

Fizz, surge, flair, abashed, plaintive, swarm, ingrained, wistful, whip, dote, squashy, mollified, dither, fluster, surreptitious, hitch, loophole, eventuality, savour, relish, salvage, sham, envisage, marshal.

dither ingrained plaintive marshal abashed wistful relish whip surge squashy envisage

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to arrange in good or effective order thoughtful and rather sad to move quickly or suddenly to see in the mind as a future possibility a sudden powerful forward movement soft and easy to press and crush uncomfortable and ashamed in the presence of others fixed firmly and deeply expressing suffering or sorrow to behave nervously and uncertainly because one cannot decide to be pleased and satisfied with

1. She has a true … for the theatre.

2. You didn’t put the top back on the soda and now the … has gone out.

3. He bought his angry wife some flowers, but she refused to be ….

4. A technical … prevented the book from coming out on time.

5. She drank the wine slowly, … every drop.

6. There is a … in the tax laws.

7. He … on his youngest son.

8. The agreement was a …; neither side intended to keep to it.

9. The photographers … round her.

10. The shouts of the crowd … the speaker and he forgot what he was going to say.

11. After it was revealed that he’d also stolen from his employers, there was little he could do to … his battered reputation.

12. We must be prepared for all ….

13. When no one was looking he took a … puff on his cigarette.

4. In what situations would you say the following? Provide your own context for these utterances. Then find them in the text and check their actual usage.

1. I’ve run a tad over schedule.

2. I can’t be a brides­maid without a dress, can I?

3. Couldn’t they find anyone else to marry except from their own family?

4. Who’s the bride? You or me?

5. That’s not very weddingy.

6. People call my methods unorthodox.

7. You don’t choose your dress, you meet your dress.

8. Your mother-in-law is in her element.

9. Hats off to you.

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