Friday, November 4, 2016

Unit 1, Exercise 12, Listening Comprehension: Vocabulary to know before you listen.

Do you know these words? You will hear them in the listening exercise. If you don't know them, use the www.ldoceonline.com to help you, or a bilingual dictionary.

1.  Merchandising = the way in which shops and businesses try to sell their products
2.  How's it going?  = How are things? How's the work going?
3.  How's it coming along? = How's the progress?
4.  prints = 'fantasie' in Italian
5. paisley / paisleys = please see page 11, number 3 for an example
6.  clashing prints = two or more pieces of clothes that have different prints, such as paisleys and stripes
7.  our clients will really go for those colours = our customers will buy them / will like them
8.  She's planning to talk us through the PR campaign then (at the meeting) = she will definitely explain the PR campaign to all of us at the meeting
9.  I'm looking forward to it. = I have a positive feeling about the future meting / I am excited to hear all about it at the meeting.


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