Dialogue 1
Shopkeeper Hello, can I help you?
Customer Yes, I want one liter of milk, a loaf of bread, ten eggs and some cheese.
Shopkeeper What kind of cheese do you want?
Customer Cottage cheese; that one on the right.
Shopkeeper OK, anything else?
Customer Also, I want a kilo of tomatoes and a bunch of green onions.
Shopkeeper That makes 120 rubles. How do you wish to pay? by cash or card?
Customer By card.
Shopkeeper Thank you! Take your receipt.
Dialogue 2
Alfiya So, what shall we buy?
Diana I want a blue shirt to match my jeans and a new purse; mine is too old.
Alfiya OK, and Id like to buy a pair of dress shoes, something not
very expensive.
Diana Oh, look! Heres a nice pair and they are really cheap! Do
you like them?
Alfiya Let me try them on. Yes, indeed, they fit me perfectly! But I
dont like the color.
Diana Do you want them in black? Try these!
Alfiya Yes, they are a nice match for my black dress.
Vocabulary
| boots | |
| bunch | , |
| cash | |
| clothes [kləuðz] | |
| cottage cheese | |
| currency ['kÙrənsi] | |
| customer ['kÙstəmə] | , , |
| dress | , |
| grocery ['grəusəri] | |
| hat | , |
| jeans | |
| loaf | |
| mall [mo:l] | |
| purse [pə:s] | , |
| receipt [ri'si:t] | |
| shirt | , , |
| shoes | |
| shop | |
| shopping center | |
| skirt | |
| store | |
| sum [sÙm] | |
| supermarket | |
| to buy bought bought | |
| to fit | ( ), ( ) |
| to match | ( ), |
| to pay paid paid | |
| to sell sold sold | |
| to try on | |
| trousers (AmE pants) ['trauzəz] |
Pronunciation
Listen and repeat.
[ò] sh op, sh oes, sh irt, ca sh, sh opping center
[ei] p ay, p ai d
[u:] b oo ts, sh oe s
[ə:] sh ir t, sk ir t, p ur se
Read the following words in transcription and write them in your notebooks.
[mol] [dʒi:ns] [tòi:p] [klouz] [sto:]
[pænts] [dres] [louf] [òu:z] [hæt]
Oral exercises
Practice the following sentences with the words given below. Listen and repeat the sentences until you can say them fluently.
a) shoes: I wanted shoes to match my dress.
a purse, jewelry, a hat
b) tomatoes: Ill also take a kilo of tomatoes.
potatoes, carrots, cabbage, ball peppers
c) 120: That makes 120 rubles.
12; 338; 470; 600; 1,836
Cross out the odd word.
a) shirt, cake, pants, skirt, dress
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b) onion, apple, pear, peach, orange
c) oatmeal, semolina, salt, buckwheat, millet
d) pen, notebook, shoe, clip, stapler
e) store, egg, shop, grocery, supermarket
