Shopping. Not long ago people used to go to various shops for different foods and household items

 

Not long ago people used to go to various shops for different foods and household items. These shops are: the bakers, the butcher's, the greengrocer's, the fish-monger's, the daily, the confectionery, etc. Nowadays another kind of shop has appeared — the supermarket.

A supermarket is a very big shop with different depart­ments. People can buy both food and other necessary goods there. You can see lots of different goods there: cans of beans, peas, meat, juсe, beer, coke; jars of jam or pickles; bottles of water and soft drinks; boxes of cereal and chocolate; packs of flour, various kinds of sausages, cheese, dairies, fish; loaves of bread, buns, cakes, rolls; bars of chocolate; bunches of bananas, carrots, grapes; kilogram’s of apples, oranges, cucumbers and tomatoes and many other things.

When customersenter a supermarket, they get a trol­ley to carry the things they will choose to buy. There are aisles with shelves of products and goods. Buyers go along the aisles pushing their trolleys and choosing things they need. You can ask a shop-assistant if you don't know where things you need are.

When you have put bunches, tins, cans, bottles and boxes of food into the trolley, you take them to the checkout point, a check-desk, and pay for your purchases to the cashier who gives you a receipt [ri'si:t]. You can buy all you need as quickly as possible. Often food and other goods in the supermarket are cheaper than those in a small shop or in a green market.

5. Дайте відповіді на запитання.

a) Do you usually do shopping in your family?

b) Do you often go shopping to the market?

c) Do the prices differ from those in the shops?

d) Are the food products sold ready-weighed and packed at the shops?

e) Is it convenient for the customer?

f) Are there many departments in the department store?

g) What are they?

h) What is possible to buy there?

 

6.Розподіліть товари на дві групи: foodstuffs (продовольчі) та industrial stuffs (промислові):

fish, powder, lotion, meat, cheese, sugar, perfumery, biscuit, bread, shampoo, poultry, cream, face cream, sour cream, milk, lipstick, pike, ice-cream, shoes, toothpaste.

І. Граматичпокроковуний матеріал. Тема: Past Perfect Continous Tense.

 

Вправа 1. Поясніть вживання часів.

1. He was tired – he was so very tired. It seemed to him that he had been tired for a very long time.

2. Grant went to the drawing-room, where Alison was sitting with a book.

3. She listened, but could not follow what was being said.

4. When it was time to go I asked if I could see the rooms I had lived in for five years.

5. Nobody knew he was going to London on Sunday.

6. All the stories in this book were written before the first World War.

Вправа 2. Вставте дієслова у минулій формі.

1. It (to be) the poorest room he ever (to see).

2. No sooner she (to arrive) at the station than a fast London train (to come in).

3. It (to be decided) to say nothing to Sidney until the answer (to be received).

4. Arthur (to go) up to his room. Nothing in it (to be changed) since his arrest.

5. No wonder he (to be) very tired. He (to work) too hard for the last three months.

6. He (to learn) English for 2 years when he went to England.

7. He (to know) Mary for two years when they (to decide) to get married.

8. She (to say) it in a voice he never (to hear) before.

9. I (to look) into the kitchen. Mary-Ann (to put) the supper on a tray to take it into the dining room.

10. I (to be) fifteen and just (to come) back from school for the summer holiday.

11. It (to rain) heavily since the morning and she (not to allow) the children to go out.

12. Soon I (to get) a letter from her to the effect that she (to return) from the South of France; she (to want) me to meet her.

13. I (to see) a man whom I (to meet) in Kiev.

14. I (to finish) my work for the day and (to rest) quietly in my armchair, thinking of the days that (to go) by.

15. George, who (to laugh) loudly, suddenly (to break off).

16. She (to read) the book ever since she (to come) from school and couldn’t tear herself away from it.

17. She (to know) Jim for more than ten years, ever since her husband, who (to teach) at that time in a Grammar school in London, first had made his acquaintance through the Labour Party.

18. He (to say) he (to wait) for more than an hour.

19. I (to be) sure they (to talk) about me, because they (to break off) as soon as I (to enter).

20. He (to say) he (to get) two letters from Alice.

ІІІ. Робота над текстом за професійним спрямуванням.