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There are a lot of interesting and useful professions. I am going to become a teacher. I suppose my future profession to be one of the most important nowadays.
My future speciality is English (Literature, Russian, History, Geography). I love children very much and to become a teacher has been my dream since my early childhood.
To teach and to bring up children is the most important and noble thing, to my mind. I am eager to get the proper education to be able to do my best to teach my future pupils my favourite subject. I'll try not only to help them to master it. I'll try to help them to become good and clever people, to be honest, kind and noble.
Children are our future and I want them to be really good and educated people. Of course, the profession of a teacher is not an easy one. It demands a lot of knowledge, a lot of tenderness of feeling and sometimes a lot of patience. But I hope, that I'll be a good teacher and that my pupils will like me and my subject.
Shopping (1)
When we want to buy something, we go to a shop. There
are many kinds of shops in every town or city, but most of
them have a food supermarket, a department store, men's and
women's clothing stores, grocery, a bakery and a butchery.
I like to do my shopping at big department stores and
supermarkets. They sell various goods under one roof and
this is very convenient. A department store, for example,
true to its name, is composed of many departments: readymade
clothes, fabrics, shoes, sports goods, toys, china and
glass, electric appliances, cosmetics, linen, curtains, cameras,
records, etc. You can buy everything you like there.
There are also escalators in big stores which take customers
to different floors. The things for sale are on the counters so
that they can be easily seen. In the women's clothing
department you can find dresses, costumes, blouses, skirts,
coats, beautiful underwear and many other things. In the
men's clothing department you can choose suits, trousers,
overcoats, ties, etc. In the knitwear department one can buy
sweaters, cardigans, short-sleeved and long-sleeved pullovers,
woolen jackets. In the perfumery they sell face cream and
powder, lipstick, lotions and shampoos.
In a food supermarket we can also buy many different
things at once: sausages, fish, sugar, macaroni, flour, cereals,
tea. At the butcher's there is a wide choice of meat and
poultry. At the bakery you buy brown and white bread, rolls,
biscuits. Another shop we frequently go to is the greengrocery
which is stocked by cabbage, potatoes, onions, cucumbers,
carrots, beetroots, green peas and what not. Everything is
sold here ready-weighed and packed. If you call round at a
dairy you can buy milk, cream, cheese, butter and many
other products.
The methods of shopping may vary. It may be a selfservice
shop where the customer goes from counter to counter
selecting and putting into a basket what he wishes to buy.
Then he takes the basket to the check-out counter, where the
prices of the purchases are added up. If it is not a self-service
shop, and most small shops are not, the shop-assistant helps
the customer in finding what he wants. You pay money to the
cashier and he gives you back the change.
Questions:
1. What do we do when we want to buy something?
2. What kinds of shops are there in every town?
3. Where do you like to do your shopping?
4. What departments is a department store composed of?
5. Where are the things for sale?
6. What can we buy in the knitwear department?
7. What can we buy in a food supermarket?
8. What methods of shopping are there?
Vocabulary:
supermarket
store ,
various
under one roof
to be composed of... ( -)
ready-weighed and packed
fabrics
escalator
customer
Shopping (2)
Shopping has common elements wherever it takes place.
A buyer looks for a seller who is offering something the
buyer wants or needs at a price the buyer can afford to pay.
Sellers often advertise their wares in newspapers, on the radio
or TV, on posters etc. Sellers use a variety of tactics to induce
buyers to purchase from them at a price which leaves some
profit.
Shopping is a part of our daily life. And we have to deal
with it whether we like it or not. There are people who hate
going shopping. So they make a list of what they need and
run through stores buying the needed things. Sometimes
they even don't care about the price. And there are people who
go f rorn store to store looking for goods of better quality
and lower price. Those don't worry about the time they spend
shopping.
But there is a very good service called Postal Market. It
really helps you to save your time and get goods of high
quality. You just have to look through a catalogue, choose the
things you like, order them and wait a little to get them.
Questions:
1. What is shopping?
2. How do sellers advertise their wares?
3. What do the sellers do to increase their profit?
4. Is there any service which helps to save time during
shopping?
5. What kind of a service is it?
Vocabulary:
common
buyer
seller
price
purchase
Postal Market
catalogue
My Usual Shopping Round
We go shopping every day. The other day my mother took
me on a usual shopping round. We went to the grocer's and
greengrocer's as we had run out of sugar and onions.
At the greengrocer's there was a long queue. But we had
nothing to do but stand in the queue if we wanted to get to
the counter and have some onions. The shop-girl weighed us
half a kilo of onions, we thanked her and went out. Then we
made our way to the grocer's where we bought a kilo of sugar
and some sausage. We were about to go home as my mother
suddenly remembered we had hardly any bread in the house.
We dropped in at the baker's and bought a loaf of brown
bread, some rolls and buns. On our way home the mother
decided to call at a commercial shop. She was looking for a
present to my father as it was his birthday soon.
As soon as we entered the shop, we found ourselves in a
fantastic motley city of silk skirts and shirts, woolen pullovers,
frocks and leather boots and shoes. The smiling girl
met us at the counter. My mother said she wanted to buy a
size 50 shirt of a dark-blue colour. The girl suggested looking
at a dark-blue cotton shirt with short sleeves. The shirt was
the latest fashion and we were sure the father would like it.
We paid the money at the cash-desk. The cashier gave us a
receipt and with it we came up to the shop-assistant. She
passed us a wrapped parcel with the shirt, thanked us and
added they were always glad to see us at their shop and we
happy and a bit excited went out of the shop.
Questions:
1. Do we go shopping every day?
2. Where did you go?
3. What did you buy at the greengrocer's?
4. Was the queue long there?
5. Where did you buy a kilo of sugar and some sausage?
6. What did your mother decide to do?
7. What did you see at the commercial shop?
8. What did you buy there?
9. What did the cashier give you?
10. Why were you happy and a bit excited as you went out
of the shop?
Vocabulary:
to go shopping, to do shopping
grocer's
greengrocer's
to run out of smth.
queue
counter
a shop assistant
to weigh
loaf
roll, bun
purchase
to cost (cost, cost)
to decide
to drop in at smth., to call at smth.
commercial shop
to look for sth
to enter
fantastic
frock
leather ,
sleeve
to be the latest fashion
sure
cash-desk
cashier
receipt
