Shopping - Workshop

Question 1

Ironmonger’s

Answer 1

-a shop that sells tools and equipment for use in homes or gardens

Question 1

Jeweller’s

Answer 1

-a person or store that sells, makes, and repairs jewellery

Question 2

Fishmonger’s

Answer 2

-a shop that sells fish

Question 3

Deli (Delicatessen)

Answer 3

• a small shop that sells high-quality foods, such as types of cheese and cold cooked meat, often from other countries.

“I got the cheese from one of Paris’s top delicatessens.”

Question 4

Pharmacy

Answer 4

• a shop or part of a shop in which medicines are prepared and sold

Question 5

Empty-Handed

Answer 5

• without bringing or taking anything.

“We can’t go to the party empty-handed.”
“It store was so expensive, I left empty-handed.”

Question 6

Hit the Shops

Answer 6

• if a product hits the shops, it becomes available to buy

Question 7

Live on Baked beans

Answer 7

-To live and eat poorly

Question 8

Boutique

Answer 8

-a small shop that sells fashionable clothes, shoes, jewellery, etc.

Question 9

Off-licence

Answer 9

-a shop that sells mainly alcoholic drinks

Question 10

Tobacconists

Answer 10

-a shop where tobacco, cigarettes, etc. are sold

Question 11

Stationer’s

Answer 11

-a shop that sells stationery:

“You’ll be able to get a tube of glue at the stationer’s down the road.”

Question 12

Supermarket

Answer 12

a large shop which sells most types of food and other goods needed in the home

Question 13

Evaporate

Answer 13

-to disappear

“Those boots were so cheap, they evaporated.”

Question 14

Lift Low Spirits

Answer 14

-make someone feel more cheerful and hopeful

Question 15

Splash the Cash

Answer 15

-to spend (money) freely or extravagantly (on something)

Question 16

Patisserie

Answer 16

-a shop that sells cakes, etc.

Question 17

Pet Shop

Answer 17

• a shop that sells pets, food or things for pets.

Question 18

Haberdashery

Answer 18

• a shop or a department of a large store that sells thesecloth, pins, thread, etc. used for sewing

Question 19

Greengrocer’s

Answer 19

a shop in which fresh vegetables and fruit are sold

Question 20

Bargain

Answer 20

-something on sale at a lower price than its true value:

“This coat was half-price - a real bargain.”
“The airline regularly offers last-minute bookings at bargain prices.”

Question 21

Feel Smug

Answer 21

-Self-satisfaction and feeling superior to others

prejorative

Question 22

Sneak

Answer 22

-to go somewhere secretly, or to take someone or something somewhere secretly

Question 23

Window Shopping

Answer 23

-the activity of spending time looking at the goods on sale in shop windows without intending to buy any of them