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Traditional Products

What you will learn:

Traditional Products Ideas and Vocabulary

Idioms
Part 2 and 3 Questions
Model Answer
Collocations
Your Questions
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Test Your Vocabulary
Fill in the gaps in these sentences with ONE word. We are talking about
Traditional Products

1. My country is famous _______ it’s wonderful cheeses

2. The sculptures are made _____ wood

3. There are no other rugs like this anywhere in the world, they are
_______

Answers at bottom of PDF

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 Di erent Kinds of Traditional Products

There are many di erent kinds of traditional products / souvenirs

Food
Clothes
Handicrafts and decorations
Accessories, jewellery

Which country are these traditional products from?

Answers at bottom of PDF

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Vocabulary for Traditional Products

My country is famous for _____

This region is renowned for ____

Food

Culinary (adj.) delicacies

Gastronomic (adj.) delights (=it’s delicious)
Sweet preserves (n.) (e.g. jam, pastes, chutney).
Mouthwatering delicacies

Hand-crafted or handmade items

• hand-woven (to weave)

Shawls, clothes, rugs,

They use di erent fabrics
Hand-woven rugs often use a variety of di erent textiles

• hand-carved

Sculptures, gurines (person), decorations, trinkets (small

decorations), toys

Made of wood, clay, ceramic, pottery, stone

quirky (adj.) (=unusual) designs

• embroidered

Scarves, shawls, garments (=clothes), towels, caps

Indigenous designs (=from the local, original population)

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 • knitted

Jumpers, clothes, scarves

Wooden handicrafts
Metal handicrafts
Stone handicrafts

To nd out more about the di erent kinds of handicrafts and learn lots
more relevant vocabulary, check out this web page,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handicraft

It is made of ______

It is made out of ______

It’s made from _______

They are decorated with____

It’s a product that goes back to ___the 12th century / the Ming
Dynasty _____

It’s a product that dates back to ___the 12th century / the Ming
Dynasty _____

Synonyms of Unique

One of a kind
Unrivalled
Matchless

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What is a traditional product from your country?
Answers from students:

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Idioms
Run-of-the-mill (adj.) = Ordinary, commonplace
These handmade belts are anything but run-of-the-mill, each one has
a unique design.

A cut above the rest = Special

The traditional chocolates from this area are a cut above the rest. You
have never tasted anything like them, they just melt in the mouth.

To catch on = to become popular

These pottery gurines have really caught on again, and they are
selling like hot cakes (=to sell quickly).

Common Questions Part 2

Describe a traditional product in your country.

You should say:
what it is
what it is made of
where you see it
and explain how you feel about it.

Part 3 Questions
Where can people buy traditional products in your country?

Would you say traditional products in your country today are high
quality?

Do you think tourist souvenirs in your country are good examples of

traditional products?

Can you explain why some people prefer handmade products to

factory made ones?

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Model Answers Part 3
Listen and write down the example (s) that I talk about in each
question.

1) Where can people buy traditional products in your country?

Example:

2) Would you say traditional products in your country today are high
quality?
Example:

3) Do you think tourist souvenirs in your country are good examples of

traditional products?
Example:

Answers at bottom of PDF

Listen again and note any interesting collocation or expressions.

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Useful Collocations and Expressions

Where can people buy traditional products in your country?

Well, of course, there’s the run-of-the-mill souvenir shop that you can
get in every tourist spot or airport, or you can go to the point of origin.

I mean you go to the city or region where that particular product is

produced.

For example, Boddington’s beer is a traditional ale, only brewed in

Manchester, and if you go to that city,
you can visit the brewery, take a tour and pick up some samples of
the product, in the gift shop.

Would you say traditional products in your country today are high
quality?

To be honest, it’s a mixed bag.

If we take pottery, for example then yes, it’s top-notch.

We’ve got Stoke which is a city that is famous for its world-class
pottery, and the little ceramic tea pots are one of the most famous
items and they are all the rage now.

Of course, outside that city, there are lots of knock-o products (cheap
imitation) and fakes (counterfeit), and these tend to be cheap, low
quality, tacky products.

Most of them I would say are rubbish and a rip o (too expensive and
bad quality)

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Do you think tourist souvenirs in your country are good examples
of traditional products?

No, far from it. (=Not at all)

In fact, nothing could be farther from the truth. (=Not at all)

If you look at your average souvenir shop,

the typical souvenirs you get are cheap, machine-produced artefacts

(items)

The last time I went into a souvenir shop, I think it was in London a
couple of years ago,

it was full of plastic cups, imsy caps, and tacky T-shirts that would
probably shrink (get smaller) the rst time you wash them.

That said, I think most people get that (understand that), they know
what they are buying and just want something to show they have been
there, a keepsake (a reminder - a souvenir), if you will.

I’d say to get good examples of traditional products, you have to travel
to the town or village that specialises in making that product.

Or if we are talking about local delicacies, just go to the local

supermarket, and you can get them there and then, probably much
cheaper to boot. (As an extra bonus)

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Test Your Vocabulary: ANSWERS
Fill in the gaps in these sentences with ONE word. We are talking about
Traditional Products

1. My country is famous for it’s wonderful cheeses

2. The sculptures are made _of / out of / from____ wood

3. There are no other rugs like this anywhere in the world, they are
_unique, exceptional, special, one of a kind, original.

For number 3, you could also use the following which mean they are
better than others…
…in a di erent league,
…head and shoulders above the rest,
…second to none.

Countries ANSWERS

Which country are these traditional products from?

1. Phillipines
2. Germany
3. Spain
4. UK
5. India

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Model Answers Part 3: ANSWERS

Listen and write down the example (s) I talk about in each question.

1) Where can people buy traditional products in your country?

Example: A local beer from Manchester called Boddington’s

2) Would you say traditional products in your country today are high
quality?

Example: Pottery from Stoke

3) Do you think tourist souvenirs in your country are good examples of

traditional products?

Example: London souvenir shop, plastic cups, imsy (=not strong

material) caps, tacky (=not original, cheesy, cliché ) T-shirts

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