Ex. 1 Comprehension questions.

1. What shopping places are available a) in town b) in the country

2. What are the disadvantages of a supermarket?

3. Why is a supermarket compared with a dream world?

4. What food is best to buy from barrows?

5. What is the only place where you can have the conveniences of having an account and paying it once a month?

6. Why should you be careful about the cut-price shops?

Ex.2 Write out all the places where one can shop and mention their advantages and disadvantages.

Ex. 3 Agree or disagree with the following statements.

1. The largest stock of goods can be found only in the supermarket.

2. The best fruit in season are available only in the High Street.

3.  Shopping in the supermarket is swift.

4. In the supermarket it isn’t easy to make up your mind what to buy as music playing in the background attracts your attention.

5. Keep your wits about you not to buy junk in the street market.

6. You can have your provisions delivered both in town and in the country.

7. The shop keepers of a local village shop knows your family likes and dislikes.

8. The turnover of a local market is larger than that of a supermarket.

9. Going to different places and comparing prices and quality you may choose the best place for you to shop.  

Ex. 4 Enlarge the following.

1. The atmosphere of a local village shop is very friendly.

2. Browsing along the stalls in the supermarket and enjoying the sights, sounds and smells is not the only advantage of this place.

3. If you want to find genuine bargains – go to the supermarket.

4. Keep your wits about you in the supermarket.

5. Only through your experience you are likely to get freshest fruit.  

Ex. 5 Work in groups of 4. Choose one shopping place and try to prove it's the best place to make purchases.

Ex. 6 Make up situations with the following word – combinations. Give a title to each situation.

1) to keep an account, to overspend, to queue, to make up your mind, to be confused, in the background;

2) to look for odds and ends, reliable stall-holders, at reasonable prices, in season, to browse, to exchange news;

3) to order from home, to have something delivered, to let somebody know, essential goods, bus fares, to pay the account;

4) a large turnover, through one's experience, expensive – looking shops, to be   

best for something, cut-price shops, to suit somebody best, to compare prices  

and quality.

Text 5

Some More Shopping

       For suits of clothes my husband prefers all-round wool in grey or 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 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 at the hosiery department and bought him a pair of nice socks to match. We were perfectly outfitted and went home quite happy.

Ex.1 Translate into Russian:

a broad selection of greys and blues, to take measurements, to get a tie to match, to overgrow one's size, to pinch toes, the bill was being receipted, to run a ribbon round the box, to be perfectly outfitted.

Ex.2 Rephrase the word combinations

pure wool, dark blue, a wide choice of, too wide in shoulders, the sleeves are too long, to make some changes, without payment, it was just his size, to give something to somebody, to call at.

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