Read the text. Make sure you know the words and word combinations printed in bold. Look them up in the dictionary if there is any need.

Answer the following questions.

1. What emotions arouse a trip to shops? 2. What can you do if you have no money? 3. What kind of a shop is a shopping centre? 4. At what shops can you buy fish, meat, vegetables, cakes, flour, and milk? 5. Why do many people prefer to go to small shops but not to a supermarket? 6. What does everybody knows (except some men)? 7. Why are you sometimes at a loss? 8. What do customers do before they begin to load their trolleys or shopping-baskets? 9. What does a cashier do when you come up to the cashier desk? 10. Do people pay in cash or write out a cheque?

 

Here is a shopping list. Say what shops can you buy these things?

a loaf of brown bread a loaf of long French bread 1 large cod 1 kg of pork 3 lemons 0,3 kg of ham biscuits a family-size pack of yoghurt a 1 litre packet of milk

1 small cabbage a tin of condensed milk a bunch of radishes a drum of margarine 0,5 kg of cheese a 2 kg bag of flour a packet of frozen cauliflower two bottles of mineral water a jar of honey

a bottle of vinegar 2 medium-size herrings a tin of sardines in oil 2 kg of potatoes a large chicken a 0,5 kg pack of sour cream 0,2 kg of butter a packet of orange juice a box of chocolate

 

Think and say what else can be sold in cartons, bunches, etc.

a packet of – 1.                 2.                 3.	a tin of – 1.           2.           3.	a drum of – 1.                2.                3.
a jar of – 1.            2.            3.	a box of – 1.             2.             3.	a bunch of – 1.                2.                3.
a bottle of –1.               2.               3.	a carton of – 1.                2.                3.

Match the phrases in the left column with the words in the right column.

1. a bottle of 2. a drum of 3. a cake of 4. a packet of 5.a carton of 6. a jar of

7. a tin of 8. a tube of 9. a bunch of 10. a box of 11. a tub of

a. jam b. parsley c. toothpaste d. cleanser e. juice f. chocolate

g. eggs h. honey i. sugar j. soap k. luncheon meat

 

What do we buy A) by kilos, B) by quantity, C) by tens in Russia?

Fish, carrots, cabbage, kiwi, meat, eggs, pineapples, sausage, rye bread, oranges, tinned fish, chocolate, garlic, turkey, bananas, lettuce.

7. Look through the list of products and say which of them are sold A) in quantity, B) in dozens, C) in lb* in Great Britain.

*lb – abbreviation from the Latin word "libra" – " фунт ", in speech it is pronounced "pound".

   F.e. – 3lb – three pounds

Cheese, lemons, grapes, white bread, ham, mangoes, eggs, potatoes, chickens, oysters.

 

Say which products are priced A) per kilo, B) per each.

Onions, tomatoes, pineapples, kiwi, long French bread, tinned meat, cabbages, mangoes, buns, chops, apples, cucumbers, yoghurt. 

 

9. Exclude (исключите) from the lists below products which cannot be sold as it mentioned.  

pre-prepared*	frozen	dried	tinned
garlic steaks fish fillet potatoes tomatoes	cherries onions turkey bread spaghetti	banana fish meat ham plums	flour pork peaches lettuce tuna	pre-prepared* - полуфабрикаты prepackaged / prepacked - расфасованные

 

10. What are the measures of weight and volume in Russia, Great Britain and the USA? Do you know them?*

Russia	Great Britain and the USA
1 kg =1000 g = 2,2046 lb.	1 ounce (oz) ['auns] = 28,35 g 1lb. = 16 oz = 0,4536 kg 1 stone = 14 lb. = 6.35 kg
1 litre = 1000 millilitres = 1dm^3 = 0.2200 Imp gal = 0,2642 US gal	1 gallon Imperial = 4 quarts = 8 pints = 4.546 litres 1 gallon US = 0.833 British gallon = 3.785 litres 1 quart British Imperial = 2 pints = 1.14 litre 1 quart US = 0.833 British quart = 0.946 litre 1 pint British = 0.57 litre 1 pint US = 1/8 US gallon = 0.47 litre

 

11. What do you know about money in Great Britain and the USA? Do you know their?*

British: 1 pound of the UK has 100 pennies. There are coins (монеты) of 1 penny, 2 pence, 5 pence, 10 pence, 20 pence and 50 pence. There are banknotes of 1 pound (£1), 5 pounds, 10 pounds, 20 pounds and 50 pounds.

They have their nicknames:

£1 - quid;  £20 – pony;

£5 – fiver;  £100 – ton;

£10 – tenner;   £1000 - grand

American: 1 dollar has 100 cents. There are coins of 1 cent (a penny), 5 cents (a nickel), 10 cents (a dime), 25 cents (a quarter), 50 cents (half dollar) /In brackets their nicknames are given/

 

12. Read these dialogues and act them.