1 gallon (gal) = 3.7854 litres-
1 quart(qt)= 9.4635 decilitres- =1\4 =2 =1.14 , 0.95
1 fluid ounce(oz)=29.6 millilitres- . , (= 28.3 )
1 pint(pt)= 16 ounces= 473.2 ml- ( = 0.57 , = 0.47 )
1. Translate the text: Buying drinks
If you want to have a drink you can go to the bar or supermarket and buy different hard and soft drinks to your taste. They sell wine: dry and sweet, white and red, light and dessert wines, liqueurs, champagne and vodka.
There is a big choice of cooling beverages, juices, lemonade and mineral water. You can buy beer of any kind. It may be bottled and canned beer, bitter and light beer. For a snack you can take potato chips, salted nuts, shrimps, cheese, and fish snacks of smoked, dried and salted fish. In the supermarket there are many brands of tea, coffee, soda drinks such as; Pepsi, cola, sprite, ice tea. You can choose anything you like in the shopping centres, special shops, super and megamarkets.
2. Learn the Dialogue Buying soft drinks.
Shop-assistant: Can I help you?
Customer: Yes. How can I get to the drinks section?
Sh-as: Its over there, on the left.
C: Thank you. Id like to buy orange juice. There are various brands of them!
Sh-as: Always buy the stores own brand. Its the least expensive. Anything else?
C: What cooling drinks, can you recommend? Its very hot today.
Sh-as: We have a lot of cooling drinks: lemonade, mineral water, Coca-cola, lemon and cranberry beverages, ice tea.
C: Ill take a bottle of iced-tea and Coca-cola. And where can I buy instant coffee?
Sh-as: Coffee and tea are in aisle 5.
C: Thank you.
2. Make up a dialogue At the hard drinks section
Revision
1. Read and translate the text: At the Food Shop.
There are several aisles in the shop: fruit and vegetables, meat and fish counters and others.
The green grocery and fruit aisles offer a great variety of fresh and canned vegetables and fruit. There you can buy spring onions, brown onions, potatoes, carrots, beets, cabbages and lettuce. The fruit are always fresh. You can buy bananas, grapes, lemons, oranges, pineapples, pears and plums. There is also a wide choice of fruit and vegetable juices to any taste in the counter.
In the grocery aisle there are all kinds of cereals: oatmeal, millet, rice, buckwheat, pearl barley, macaroni, vermicelli and noodles. You can also buy vegetable oil, spices, flour, potato flour, peas and some other products there.
At the meat counter the customer can buy pork, beef, mutton, veal and poultry. The shop has a wide choice of fresh, fresh-frozen and canned fish.
There is a wide choice of milk products in dairy department. You can buy milk, butter, cream, yogurts, kefir, sour cream and cheese here. At this department you can also buy eggs, mayonnaise and margarine.
You can find a lot of tasty things in the confectionery. And the baker's offers you a wide choice of baked items: white and brown bread, rolls and buns.
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2. A nswer the questions:
1 Where can you buy coffee?
2. Where can you buy bread?
3. What can you buy at the dairy?
4. Where can you buy all kinds of berries?
5. What can you buy at the butcher's?
3. Finish the sentences:
I want to the fishmonger to get some...
I always buy yogurt at this...
I want a pound of...
I need to buy a loaf of...
I am so thirsty. Where can I buy a bottle of...
6. Fruits are very expensive at this...
7. At the butcher's I prefer to buy..
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