D Which of these are replies to offers and which are replies to requests?

o That’s no problem.

o Yes, please.

o Sure, no problem.

o No, thank you.

o No thanks.

o Certainly.

o I’m sorry. I’m afraid we haven’t got any of those at the moment.

 

 

5e You need to order the food for the lunch at the Food conference. There are 100 people at the conference. Choose the food and complete the ‘You’ column on the order form. Role-play the dialogue between the conference organiser and the supplier.

Task for student A: You are the conference organiser. Phone Event Catering, the supplier, and make your order.

Task for student B: You work for Event Catering, the supplier. Take the order from the conference organiser.

 

 

6 Extra Activities

A Read the text about food shopping on the next page. Which different ways of shopping for food does it mention?

 

B Underline the correct alternatives in these sentences about the text.

1. It is cheap / expensive to order your supermarket shopping on-line and have it delivered.

2. Supermarket websites can / can't remember what you have ordered in the past.

3. Farmers' markets have always been well-supported / have recently become popular again.

4. Organic food has a lot of / no chemicals in it.

5. The customer / producer decides what fruit and vegetables are used in a “box service”.

6c Discuss in pairs. What are the advantages and disadvantages of getting your food from: a) a supermarket b) a smaller shop or a market? Think about:

v price

v choice of products

v quality of products

v convenience

v service

v ecological reasons

 

New Markets – shopping for food in the 21^st century
Making a long trip to the supermarket and queuing for hours used to be the normal weekly routine for British and American shoppers. But since the 1990s, there is a better way to get your groceries. Supermarket shopping on the Internet has boomed in the UK and the USA. The major supermarkets have their own websites, and if you order on-line with them, for extra sum such as $8/£5 the supermarkets will do your shopping for you and deliver it to your door. If you shop with them regularly, they will “remember” your favourite items so you can order them next time without searching the item! These days thousands of people in the UK and the States regularly do their supermarket shopping in this way. In contrast, in many rural areas of		Britain there has been a return to the traditional outdoor market. Farmers' markets, where famers sell their products directly to the customer, had practically died out in Britain because of the attraction of the large supermarkets, but they have been resurrected recently, both to help farmers make more profits, and to provide customers with 'real' food again, such as fresh meat, eggs, vegetables and preserves. Organic food has become very popular, and some producers a run a “box service”, where they deliver a weekly box of fruit and vegetables to your door. Customers can't select the food - they just receive whatever is in season- but it is guaranteed to be fresh and free from chemicals and now you can often order these on-line too!

 

UNIT 3 LIVE TO SHOP OR SHOP TO LIVE In this unit you will: ü Read aboutdifferent types of shoppers ü Talk aboutyour shopping habits ü Practisemaking a report on the topic ü Listen to a persontalking about Harrods ü Writean e-mail ü Learnhow to make a report, how to write an e-mail Useful vocabulary: Nouns habit, retail therapy Verbs to spend(time; money), to look for, to try on, to pay for, to tighten(one`s belts), to live off Phrases the window shopper, the frequent shopper, the speed shopper, the careful shopper, the compulsive shopper

1 Lead-in

A Look at the words given below. Guess their meaning and try to match them to the pictures (A- D).

1. a tie

2. stamps

3. shaving foam

4. a pair of jeans

5. a letter

6. sausages

7. pills

8. meat

9. postcards

10. shampoo

11. a skirt

12. chicken

13. paper

 

A	B
C	D