E: Examiner

S: Student

E: Now I'm going to give you a topic and I'd like you to talk about it for one to two minutes. Before you talk, you'll have one minute to think about what you're going to say and you can make some notes if you wish. You understand? 

S: Yes. 

E: I’d like you to talk about the type of clothing you like to wear. (After one-minute preparation) All right. Now remember, you've got one to two minutes for this so don't worry if I stop you, I'll tell you when the time is up. Can you start speaking now, please? 

S: Okay. I love wearing the … the type of clothing that I would like to wear is something very casual like T-shirt or hoodies with a shirt or with a skirt. It is because that I think that they are very casual and so comfortable and the most important thing is that I do not need to iron them because many beautiful clothes … as … when … after we washing them and they are so … look like not neatly, and we need to iron them. And I think that this process is very … is very tired for me and I'm so lazy, so that I think that hoodies and the T-shirt is very suitable for me. And also, they are very cheap and we can found them everywhere, such as Uniqlo or Bossini or GU, and, and their price is very ... is very ... is very cheap that I can afford it easily and … But actually, I think that they are ... I love them, but as I'm a teacher or I need to go to work and some people may told me that you should not wear some clothes like that, it is because you is a teacher and that you need to wear some clothes is more neatly or seems a teacher, and ask me to buy some clothes for ... more expensive or look like a girl or a teacher and that are ... 

E: Thank you. Sorry to interrupt you there. Thank you.  

Page BreakE: So we've been talking about the type of clothes you like to wear. And I'd like to discuss with you one or two more general questions related to this. So let's consider designer clothing. Are designer clothes popular in Hong Kong? 

S: I think that design a clothes in Hong Kong is not popular. It is because that most of the clothes is import from foreign countries and that ... many people said, if you studying the Diploma of designing the clothes, you could not find the jobs or you could not earn much money, it is because it is not the trend in Hong Kong. So that I think that designing a clothes is not popular in Hong Kong.  

E: Some people are willing to spend a lot of money on famous brand name clothes. Why do you think they are willing to spend so much money? 

S: I think that, firstly, they think that the famous brand … if they wear some clothes that is from the famous brand, they may look, more, more, more … have much money and it is the honour or pleasure of them. And they enjoy others people how to look at them and therefore they may wear some famous brand clothes but some people is ... the needs of their ... types of job. For example, if some peoples are CEO, but they wear the clothes from Uniqlo or GU and maybe others people may think that they are so cheap like that. And then so that I think that some people is because of honour and some people is because of the need of their jobs. 

E: Alright, so let's turn now to the type of clothes that people wear to work and you were just discussing that for a moment there. And you mentioned people sometimes make judgments about their colleagues based on the clothes that they're wearing. Do you think it's reasonable to do that? 

 S: Excuse me? Would you mind to repeat the questions again? 

E: Do you think employers should be able to tell their employees what kind of clothes they should wear to work? 

S: Oh, I think that the employers should tell their employees what type of clothes they should wear. It is because the employee is represented their company. And when they meet the customers and if their type of clothing is not suitable their jobs or their ... the rationale of their companies and it is not suitable and may give a bad impressions to the customers. And for example, if their companies is doing some clothes designing and when their customers look at their employee, if their employee wear ... the wears is not fashionable, and it is not the same with their … the rationales of their company. And I think that if you want to build up a positive image of the company, it is necessary for the employers to tell what their employee should wear.  

E: Do you think the way people dress for work in Hong Kong has changed in recent times? 

S: Actually, I'm not, I'm not so aware about type of clothing of others and therefore I think that there is no big change of their type of clothing. 

E: Alright. Thank you. That's the end of the test. 

S: OK. Thank you very much.