Ex. 4. Find English equivalents for the following (see Text and Vocabulary).

       хождение по магазинам; витрина; любоваться витринами; о закупке провизии невозможно думать как о чет-то приятном; глазеть на витрины; магазин дорогих ювелирных изделий; гастроном; универмаг; большой кочан капусты; продавец; продавщица; продавцы были очень внимательны; «Всегда в продаже»; отдел верхней одежды.

 

Ex. 5. Draw up a plan of the text.

Ex. 6. Answer these questions:

       1. Shopping: a “must” or a pleasure? 2. Can shopping tours be made a hobby? Why? Why not? 3. Would you like to see what you are getting for your money? 4. Which shop windows do you find most interesting? Why?

 

Text 3.

Some More Shopping

       For suits of clothes my husband prefers all-round wool in grey of navy-blue. In the department store they always have a broad selection of greys and blues in the line of men’s clothes there. So we got him that grey suit but it was a bit broad in the shoulders and long in the sleeves so they offered some slight alterations free. They took his measurement and asked us to leave his purchase in the shop till the next day, when they delivered it to our place all right. We also got him a tie to match.

       We had some trouble choosing a pair of quality shoes for our son. He must have overgrown his size. All the shoes that he tried were pinching his toes. But when they offered us a pair a size larger, it fitted him well. We paid for it at the cashier’s counter, and while the bill was being receipted, the assistant ran a ribbon two times round the shoe-box and handed it over to us. On the way back we dropped in a the hosiery department and bought him a pair of nice socks to match. We were perfectly outfitted and went home quite happy.

Put 6-8 questions to the text; c) say what else you can buy in big department store.

Ex. 7. a) Read the dialogue.

Marketing

Vera: Good morning, Nina!

Nina: Oh, that’s you, Vera! How nice that you have come.

V. I haven’t seen you of late so I thought I’d –

N. I say, Vera, have you time to go with me to the market? Ma feels unwell and she wants me to do the shopping.

V. Why, yes! I am quite free.

N. Just wait a minute while I get ready the bag. Where can it be, I wonder? I’ll go and ask –

V. It cannot be in the larder, Nina, can it?

N. Of course, it must be there. (Comes back with the bag). Well, let’s go.

V. Have you taken the money?

N. Oh! What a silly I am! Going to the market without a kopeck in my pocket. Nice, indeed! (Goes out and shortly comes back). Well, seems to be all. Come on.

 

(At the market)  

                                         

V. What do you want to buy?

N. Some meat, eggs, vegetables and some berries.

V. Are berries in season now?

N. They are. Now, what shall we buy first, vegetables?

V. I think so. Where do they deal in vegetables?

N. I don’t know. This is the first time I’m out marketing. Over there, it seems.

V. Say, Nina, let’s go over to that woman over there. See what a wealth of vegetables she has.

N. (To the saleswoman). How do you sell the cabbage, by the head or by the kilogramme?

Saleswoman: By the head. Here is a nice head, young lady.

N. Show me that one over there, please.

S. Here you are. See how firm it is.

N. Yes, I shall take it.

S. What else would you like?

N. A bunch of carrots, please. No, those are overgrown. Give me the bunch next to it. Yes, that one.

S. What else, young lady?

N. Now pick out ten cucumbers, please.

S. Here, please. Right from the garden. Some onions?

N. Yes. How do you sell them?

S. These – by the tens, and these of the smaller size – by the kilogramme.

N. I’ll take ten of these.

S. Here you are.

N. Thank you.

 

B) Make up your own dialogues using the previous one as a model.

 

Text 4.

American Supermarkets

       The shopping centre (when she reached it) was all that she could wish for. There was a Woolworth’s, and a hardware store that sold every kind of nail the world had ever made, a florist where she bought her plants, a drugstore with a soda fountain where she treated herself to banana splits, and finally the supermarket. (Which she did not think she would ever cease to enjoy, however long she lived in America.)

       The supermarket has become one of the natural phenomena of American life. It would be a small and backward village indeed that did not have one. Children are brought up to it and never know the friendly tea and biscuit smell of a corner grocery.

       The first time Christine ventured into her local supermarket she thought she was in heaven. She took her little wirebasket on wheels and pushed it round, gaping at the thousands of tins on the shelves, at the vegetable freshly washed and wrapped in cellophane, the deep-freeze locker where you could get whole meals all ready to be thawed out and eaten, and the butcher’s glass – fronted refrigerator with pork chops, lamb chops, legs of veal. breasts of chicken and crimson rounds of the kind of steaks Christine had long since forgotten.

       Soon, however, she had to curb her enthusiasm. She had to, because she was spending too much. The prices were terrifying. When you got to the cash register at the end of the store where the incredibly quick man reckoned up the contents of your basket, the final sum that sprang up on the till was always more than you expected.

 

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