Vocabulary in use

• To exchange smth for smth

• Cashmere

• To organize a collection

• Declined

• 20 dollars cash back

• Cost and worth are really different things

• Speak of the devil…(and it will come)

• A general chat

• A resume

• To catch one’s eye

• To look on the brighter side

• A basic human right

• A quarter (a 25 cent coin)

• A savings magazine

• To handle money

• The limit of your credit card is reached

• To Google

• Endemic

• A collector

• To block all the calls from smb.

• To take Asia

• ABA conference

• To be relevant

• A finance guru

• To drop one’s eyeballs in it

• Outrageous

• Like a breath of fresh air

• To speak Prada

• To look stunning/fabulous

• A girl with perfect everything

• A soul sister

• Spidery long legs

• Has been stocking Rebecca for the past half a year

• Credibility

• A bridesmaid’s dress

• To start a new venture

• To define completely

• I’m stuck with her

• The annoying feeling at the pit of one’s stomach

• To turn one’s life around

• A sale of a century

• An icon

• Subtle

• Sensual

• A color of money

• Affordable fashion

• To turn the opportunity down

• A desperately important scarf

• A columnist for a magazine

• A reform shopaholic

• To love smb. back and never decline

Answer the questions:

1. What was Rebecca’s favourite activity? Was it connected with her childhood reminiscences?

2. Why did the girl shop? What did she feel shopping?

3. What was the problem with her credit card(s)?

4. Why did Rebecca need a job?

5. What was the job of Rebecca’s dream? Did she get it? Why?

6. What did Rebecca do in the morning before the job interview?

7. Why did Rebecca start working for a financial magazine? What was the irony of the situation?

8. Were Rebecca’s first articles a success? What did she do to write them?

9. Why do you think the girl’s further articles though being irrelevant to business and finance became popular?

10. What were Rebecca’s first impressions about her boss? Did she change her opinion later? What made her do it?

11. What happened in the TV show on air? What did Derek Smith have to do with it? Which way did Derek’s declaration influence Rebecca’s career?

12. What solution did Rebecca find? What steps did she take to get rid of her shopping habits?

13. Why do you think the owner of ‘Alette’ wanted to give Rebecca a job? Why did Rebecca turn down the opportunity?

14. How did Rebecca change at the end of the film? What was the reason for her changes?

15. The green scarf is a most significant detail of the plot. Why?

Make up the character sketches of:

• Rebecca Bloomwood

• Alicia Billington

• Luke Brandon

• Alette Naylor

• Suzy

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Comment on the following (recall the episodes in the film):

• They said I was a valued customer. Now they send me hate mail.

• Well, these cashmere gloves I *need* as it is winter, and I have... Hands.

• You speak Prada?

• A man will never love you or treat you as well as a store. If a man doesn't fit, you can't exchange him seven days later for a gorgeous cashmere sweater.

• Everyone has fudged their resume a little.

• Rebecca Bloomwood let me down. The girl in the green scarf never did.