E n g L i s h jenni Currie Santamaria

Better Reading English
_____ 4.
Every thrifty diva I know has a fabulous thrift store ind in her closet 
with a 
needle-in-a-haystack
tale to tell.
_____ 5.
You’ve got to be up for the 
hunt
.
_____ 6.
Shop in a thin 
tee
and skirt.
_____ 7.
So you can slip on tops and easily try on 
bottoms
.
a.
search
b.
clothes for below your waist
c.
something valuable that has been found or discovered
d.
something that’s almost impossible to ind
e.
a light shirt
f.
reference to a movie with a fairy-tale ending
g.
small stylish store that usually sells expensive things
B.
American slang
ol’ 
= old
ain’t 
= “am not,” “are not,” “is not,” “have not,” or “has not”
These two words are examples of American slang.
Copy the phrases from the text that uses these slang words.
C.
Phrasal verbs for shopping
There are several phrasal verbs we use when we talk about shopping and 
clothing. Match the phrasal verbs on the left with the definitions on the right.
____ 1.
to pick out something/ 
a. to grow too big for something 
to pick something out
____ 2.
to shop around 
b. to compare prices at different stores
____ 3.
to grow out of 
c. to select or choose 
something
____ 4.
to grow into something 
d. to wear clot
hing briely to check for it 
and comfort
____ 5.
to put on something/to 
e. to complete a transaction at the cash
put something on 
register
____ 6.
to try on something/to 
f. to wear something until it becomes
try something on
comfortable, such as leather footwear
____ 7.
to ring up something/to 
g. to just look around 
ring something up
____ 8.
to break in something/ 
h. to wear something 
to break something in
____ 9.
to browse/browsing 
i. to grow big enough to it into something

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V. UNDERSTANDING GRAMMAR: COORDINATING 
CONJUNCTIONS
A.
Read about coordinating conjunctions.
To connect two sentences, use a comma + a coordinating conjunction.
The following words are coordinating conjunctions. The acronym, FANBOYS, 
can help you remember them:
F
or
A
nd
N
or
B
ut
O
r
Y
et
S
o
* The coordinating conjunction 
nor
is not used that often. Its most common use 
is in the correlative pair 
neither. . .nor
.
That’s 
neither
 what I said 
nor
 what I meant.
*The word 
for
is also not used that often as a coordinating conjunction. It 
sounds rather literary. The words 
because
and 
since
seem to have taken its 
place.
He thought he had a good chance for a promotion, 
for
 his father was his 
manager’s best friend.
Here are three examples of sentences being connected with coordinating 
conjunctions from the passage above:
A thrift store will sap your time,
 but
 it’ll never sap your dinero.
Every thrifty diva I know has a fabulous thrift store find in her closet with a 
needle-in-a-haystack tale to tell,
 but
 you’ve got to be up for the hunt.
One easy way around this little caveat is to shop in a thin tee and skirt,