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Topic1.Shopping Online |
More of us are shopping online than ever before. We're blithely buying everything from CDs and saucy smalls to city breaks and widescreen tellies. Our fingers can't click quickly enough to fill those virtual shopping carts but isn't there something missing amid all this cyber-spending? Half the UK population shopped online this Christmas, according the Interactive Media in Retail Group, the industry body that represents internet stores. Web-savvy Brits spent more than £3 billion online in the run-up to the festive season. That's a pretty hefty 6.8% of total UK retail sales. Significantly, the e-retail sector remained buoyant despite a disappointing Christmas for many high street outfits. Online sales grew by 20% over Christmas, compared to just 2.5% for bricks and mortar stores. There's no denying that, for many transactions, it makes sense to do your research and make your purchases over the net. If you know what you're looking for, a few clicks will soon have it winging its way to you.
If you don't know what you're looking for – you want to browse in other words – the online shopping experience can be more patchy. The best stores have large, clear photographs, a decent selection of products and real server muscle to display them quickly. But the worst will lure you into a cyber goose-chase of miniscule pictures, stuttering web pages and confusing error messages. And why is it that the FAQs are always made up of every question under the sun except the one that you actually want answered? Lord of the stings In the end, online shopping is only mail-order or catalogue shopping with knobs on. Buying is the easy part. Arranging for someone to be in when the item's delivered is the challenge. And, if you do stay in to wait for your goods, don't expect to receive them from the lithe young fellow you've seen in courier company ads. Instead, a scowling hobgoblin will materialise at your door, clasping your precious package in hands so grimy you'd think he'd been tunnelling through Middle Earth to get to your street. And what about that all-important component of a true retail therapy session, lunch? There's no lunch experience with online shopping, unless you can call munching on a tuna sarnie during a surreptitious surf 'n' shop break at your desk lunch. Where's the delightful bistro, the cosy pub, or the jolly café in the online mall?
Only the lonely Face it. All too often, online shopping is a lonely affair. You may occasionally sit down with your partner and look at joint purchases on the net but, for the most part, online shopping is a solitary vice. So, get out more! Order stuff on the web if you want but don't abandon the traditional shopping trip with a mate, either. A computer's never going to tell you whether your bum looks big in an outfit. A computer's never going to linger with you over a second drink. But a mate will. Shopping – it's what your best friends are for.
Questions
1. Have you ever shopped online or through catalogs? What did you buy?
2. Do you think shopping online is safe and better?
3. Shopping online can coexist as both a convenience and a pain. What advantages and disadvantages do customers get from on-line shopping?
4. About two years ago, Korea experienced its biggest incident of Internet fraud, perpetrated by “halfplaza.com”, in which 90,000 individual consumers were defrauded of some 30 billion won. How could we avoid Internet fraud?
5. Why do men hate shopping? Is there a particular reason why men hate it? What about online shopping? Do they hate it, too?
6. Why do women love shopping? Why???? Do they also love online shopping?
7. While you are watching a TV home shopping, what products arouse your desire to buy it? (soy sauce seasoned raw crab?)
8. Have you regretted buying something via an online-shop? Why?
9. Have you ever bought something counterfeit by online-shopping? Or given them as presents to your boy(girl) friends?
Topic 2 : Origins of fashion items
I.Read
Bikini
Louis Reard, a French designer, was the first to showcase bikinis. The name “bikini” comes from a coral island in the South Pacific. The island is where the Americans tested the atomic bomb in 1946. Reard imagined people would be shocked at seeing the swimsuit he has designed. He thought it would be as shocking as the atomic bomb. The bikini was first showcased on July 5, 1946. As expected, it caused a huge sensation in international fashion circles.
Knitwear
Knitwear was first developed in the 14th century. Women living in the coastal region of Scotland made knitwear with the technique used to make fishing nets on the coast of North Europe. They put much care and love into the sweaters, wishing for the safe return of their husbands, boyfriends and children from the sea. That is why knitwear used to be called a “fisherman’s sweater” as well. At first, fishermen wore knitwear for work and to keep warm. It was not until the late 19th century that it gained widespread popularity as sportswear and leisurewear.
II.Let`s talk
1.Do you care about fashion?
2.If you don’t care, why? Do you think caring about your appearance is wasting of your time?
3.Do you think that you place a strong emphasis on fashion style of him or hers when you meet them the first time such as a blind date?
4.What is your favorite fashion style?
5.I want to ask about your preference of your boy or girl friend’s fashion style. What do you want him or her to wear?
6.Whom do you consider it girl or it boy which is famous for her or his outstanding fashion style.
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