1. Forbidden fruit is sweet.
2. Tastes differ.
3. Honey is sweet but the bee stings.
4. Take it or leave it.
14. Answer the following questions:
1. What is a department store? 2. What can one buy at the footwear department? 3. What size of shoes do you wear? 4. What are the best shoes for everyday wear in your opinion? 5. Do you always wear high heels? 6. When do women wear sandals? 7. What are your evening shoes like? 8. What are shoes made of? 9. When do you wear high boots? 10. Do you always try shoes on before buying them? 11. What shoes are in the fashion now? 12. Are shoes on platform (plat) still in fashion? 13. Do you buy ready-made clothes or have them made to measure? Why? 14. Can you afford very expensive dresses? 15. Do you buy small articles (such as hats, gloves, stockings, handbags) to match your dress (coat, shoes)? 16. Where can one buy a tea-set, a coffee-set, plates, dishes, etc.? 17. What do you usually buy at the stationary? 18. Do you use make up? 19. Where are socks, stockings, tights sold? 20. They sell hats, caps, berets, fur caps at the millinery, dont they? What hats are in fashion now? Are knitted caps in fashion? Can you knit, by the way? How much wool does it take to knit a small brimless cap? 21. What did you buy for your girl-friend as a birthday present? 22. What do they sell at the knitted goods department? 23. What is your favorite department? 24. Do you like to do window-shopping?
Discuss the following points in class.
1. What is preferable for you to buy food in a big supermarket or in small shops? Why?
2. Where are the best shops for food in your city or town?
3. Speak about foodstuffs sold in your shops. Say whether they are shipped in or grown locally; say which are expensive and inexpensive; say what foodstuffs which you might have seen in the shops abroad are not sold in this country.
4. Do they sell foodstuffs under the counter nowadays? What kind of goods can those be?
5. Do you pay attention to the brand name when you buy food? If not, how do you make your choice?
6. What is your personal style of shopping for food? Do you buy at once or do you take your time to look around for lower prices?
7. How often do you buy very expensive foodstuffs? What kind of products are those? Whendoesithappen?
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17. Be ready to talk on one of the following topics. Tell your friend:
1. How you bought presents for your family.
2. The shopping I did before my birthday party.
3. Why do you prefer to buy ready-made clothes?
18. Say what you buy when you make:
A cabbage soup; a meat salad; a cake; a vegetable salad; a mushroom soup; rissoles
19. Read the jokes and dramatize them:
1. Once a little boy entered a shop and said to the shop man; How much will I have to pay for ten pounds of sugar, two pounds of coffee and three pounds of butter? The shop man took a piece of paper and a pencil, wrote something down and said: Four dollars and sixty cents. Then the boy said: How much change will you give me if I give you five dollars?
I shall give you forty cents, answered the shop man.
Thank you, said the boy, I dont want to buy anything. It is my homework for tomorrow, and I cannot do it myself.
2. The grocer was busy with his customers when he noticed a small boy standing near an open box of sweet biscuits.
Well, my boy, said the grocer, What do you want?
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Nothing, answered the boy.
Nothing? Well, it looks as if you were trying to take a biscuit.
You are wrong, mister. Im trying not to.
3. Mother: I sent my little boy for two pounds of plums and you sent only a pound and a half.
Salesman: My scales are all right, madam. Have you weighed your little boy?
Part II
Vocabulary
1) foodstuffs-
2) counter- ,
3) purchase-
4) trolley-
5) wirebasket-
6) transparentwrappings- ,
7) tomarktheprice-
8) to reduce the price-
9) to have a good eye for a bargain-
10) check-out--
11) cashier-
12) barcode--
13) cashregister-
14) receipt-
15) pre-plannedgoods-
16) fishmongers-
17) dairyshop-
18) customer-,
19) bargain- ,
20) advertising-
21) choiceofgoods-
22) towastemoney- ,
23) sky-highprice-
24)toshoparound- , ,
25) haberdashery-
26) hosiery- (, )
27) drapery-
28) millinery-
29) Separates- ,
30) Leisurewear-
31) Knitwear-
32) Nightwear- (, )
33) Accessories-
34) changingroom-,
35) faultyitem-,
36) bargain-hunter-
37) clothesmarkets-
38) fleamarkets-
39) festivegifts-
40) last-minuteshoppers-
41) queue-
42) topayincash/ creditcard- /
43) makeabargain- () ,
Text 1
Shopping For Food
Buying foodstuffs in a modern supermarket can be considered a sort of art. It is the art of combating a temptation.
Supermarkets play a dirty trick on the customers: practically every shopper is tempted to buy things he or she does not need or cannot afford.
The mechanism of this lamentable deceit is simple. Firstly, supermarkets are laid out to make a person pass as many shelves and counters as possible. Only the hardest of souls can pass loaded racks indifferently and not collect all sorts of food from them.
Secondly, more and more supermarkets supply customers with trolleys instead of wire baskets: their bigger volume needs more purchases. One picks up a small item, say, a pack of spaghetti, puts it into a huge trolley and is immediately ashamed of its loneliness. He or she starts adding more.
Thirdly, all products are nicely displayed on the racks and all of them look fresh in their transparent wrappings with marked prices. A normal person cannot ignore attractively packed goods. And so one cannot but feel an impulse to buy. And, finally, supermarkets don't forget about those who look for bargains. The so-called "bargain bins" filled with special offers wait for their victims. No one can tell for sure if the prices are really reduced, but it is so nice to boast later that you have a very good eye for a bargain.
So when a simple-hearted customer approaches a check-out, his or her trolley is piled high. Looking at a cashier, running her pen over barcodes, he or she starts getting nervous while the cash register is adding up the prices. And, getting a receipt, he or she gives a sigh of relief if the indicated sum does not exceed the cash he or she has.
Of course, one can give a piece of advice to the simple-hearted: compile a shopping list and buy only pre-planned goods. But is it worth losing that great sensation of buying? One can really wonder.
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A lot of people prefer to do their shopping in small shops. The daily shopping route of some housewives includes visits to the baker's, butcher's, grocer's, greengrocer's, fishmonger's and a dairy shop. In the end of the route their bags are full of loaves of bread, meat cuts, and packs with cereals, fruit, vegetables, fish and dairy products. Only very strong women can call in at the tobacconist's after all that.
The explanation for this housewives' craze is very simple. In every shop their buys are weighed, wrapped up, their money taken and the change given back. Meanwhile they can have a chat with salesgirls and shop-assistants about their weak hearts and broken hopes.
So, friends, go shopping as often as you can. Because the simple truth is: a visit to a good shop is worth two visits to a good doctor.
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