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Lesson five shopping for nutrient

INTRODUCTORY READING AND TALK

Buying foodstuffs in a modern supermarket tin be considered a sort of art. It is the art of combating a temptation.

Supermarkets play a dirty fob on the customers: practically every shopper is tempted to buy things he or she does non need or cannot afford.

The machinery of this lamentable deceit is unproblematic. Firstly, supermarkets are laid out to make a person pass as many shelves and counters as possible. But the hardest of souls can laissez passer 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. 1 picks up a pocket-sized item, say, a pack of spaghetti, puts information technology into a huge trolley and is immediately aback of its loneliness. He or she starts adding more than.

Thirdly, all products are nicely displayed on the racks and all of themlook fresh in their transparent wrappings with marked prices. A normal person cannot ignore attractively packed goods. And then i cannot but experience an impulse to buy. And, finally, supermarkets don't forget about those who expect for bargains. The so-called "bargain bins" filled with special offers wait for their victims. No one tin tell for certain if the prices are really reduced, simply it is and so dainty to boast later that yous have a very adept centre for a bargain.

So when a simple-hearted customer approaches a bank 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 greenbacks annals is adding upwards the prices. And, getting a receipt, he or she gives a sigh of relief if the indicated sum does not exceed the greenbacks he or she has.

Of course, i tin can requite a piece of advice to the simple-hearted: compile a shopping list and buy simply pre-planned goods. But is it worth losing that great sensation of ownership? One can really wonder.

A lot of people prefer to do their shopping in minor shops. The daily shopping route of some housewives includes visits to the baker'southward, butcher's, grocer's, greengrocer'southward, fishmonger's and a dairy shop. In the end of the route their bags are full of loaves of staff of life, meat cuts, packs with cereals, fruit, vegetables, fish and dairy products. Only very strong women can call in at the tobacconist's after all that.

The caption for this housewives' craze is very simple. In every shop their buys are weighed, wrapped up, their coin taken and the change given back. Meanwhile they tin have a conversation with salesgirls and store-administration virtually their weak hearts and broken hopes.

Then, friends, become shopping equally frequently every bit you can. Because the simple truth is: a visit to a good shop is worth two visits to a skilful medico.

i. Fancy that you lot take a little child to a supermarket for the first time. Explain to him what yous see around and what one should do.

2. Describe a) the supermarket closest to your cake of flats;

b) your favourite supermarket.

3. Say how you buy goods in an ordinary store and in a supermarket.

four. Say what one can buy in the shops mentioned in the text (baker's, butcher's, etc.)

○ TEXT

Shopping for One

(A story by Anne Cassidy. Abridged)

Supermarkets are much the same the world over � especially the queues at check-out points. What extraordinary things other people are buying! There are odd snatches of overheard conversation too. But what if i is living alone, 'Shopping for 1'?

'Then what did yous say?' Jean heard the blonde woman in front end of her talking to her friend.

'Well,' the darker woman began, 'I said I'm non having that woman there. I don't see why I should. I mean I'm not beingness onetime-fashioned but I don't see why I should accept to put upwardly with her at family occasions.one After all...'

Jean noticed the other woman giving an accompaniment of nods and headshaking at the appropriate parts.ii They roughshod into silence and the queue moved forrard a couple of steps.

Jean felt her patience beginning to itch.three Looking into her wire handbasket she counted x items. That meant she couldn't go through the quick till4 but simply had to wait behind elephantine shopping loads; giant bottles of coke crammed in beside twenty-pound numberless of potatoes and 'special offering' drums of bleach. Somewhere at the bottom, Jean idea, there was always a plastic carton of eggs or a run across-through tray of tomatoes which vicious casualty to the remainder.five There was nothing else for information technology � she'd just accept to wait.

'Subsequently all,' the dark adult female resumed her conversation, 'how would it look if she was there when I turned upwards?'six Her friend shook her head slowly from side to side and concluded with a quick nod.

Should she have got such a pocket-sized size salad cream? Jean wasn't sure. She was sick of throwing away half-used bottles of stuff.

'He came back to you lot after all,' the blonde woman suddenly said. Jean looked upwards quickly and immediately felt her cheeks flush. She bent over and began to rearrange the items in her shopping basket.

'On his easily and knees,' the dark adult female spoke in a triumphant vocalism. 'Begged me take him back.'

She gritted her teeth together. Should she get and alter it for a larger size? Jean looked behind and saw that she was hemmed in by iii large trollies. She'd lose her identify in the queue. In that location was something so pitiful near buying modest sizes of everything. Information technology was equally though everyone knew.

'You can always tell a person past their shopping,'7 was one of her female parent's favourite maxims. She looked into her shopping handbasket: private fruit pies, minor salad foam, yoghurt, tomatoes, cat food and a chicken quarter.

The cashier of a sudden said, 'Make information technology out to J. Sainsbury PLC.' She was addressing a man who had been poised and waiting to write out a cheque for a few moments. His wife was loading what looked like a gross offish fingers8 into a cardboard box marked "Whiskas". Information technology was called a partitioning of labour.

Jean looked once again at her basket and began to feel the familiar feeling of regret that visited her from fourth dimension to fourth dimension. Hemmed in between family-size cartons of cornflakes and behemothic packets of washing-powder, her individual yoghurt seemed to say it all.9 She looked up towards a plastic bookstand which stood abreast the till. A slim glossy hardback caught her eye. The words Cooking for One screamed out from the front end cover. Think of all the oriental foods you can get into,10 her friend had said. He was so traditional afterward all. Nodding in agreement with her thoughts Jean found herself eye to eye with the blonde woman, who gave her a blank, hard await and handed her what looked like a black plastic ruler with the words "Next customer please" printed on it in bold letters. She turned back to her friend. Jean put the ruler down on the conveyor belt.11

She idea nigh their shopping trips, before, when they were together. All that rushing circular, he pushing the trolley dejectedly, she firing questions at him. Salmon? Toilet rolls? Java? Peas? She remembered he merely liked the processed kind.12 Information technology was all such a operation. Standing there holding her wire handbasket, embarrassed by its very emptiness, was like something out of a soap opera.

'Of course, we've had our ups and downs,13' the dark woman continued, lazily passing a few items downwardly to her friend.

Jean began to load her food on to the conveyor belt. She picked upwardly the cookery book and felt the frustrations of indecision. It was merely ninety pence but it seemed to define everything, to pinpoint her aloneness, to prescribe an empty futurity. She put it back in its identify.

'So that's why I couldn't have her there you encounter,' the dark woman was summing up. The friends exchanged knowing expressions and the blonde woman got her handbag out of a corking leather bag. She peeled off three ten pound notes and handed them to the cashier.

Jean opened her carrier handbag ready for her shopping. She turned to scout the 2 women as they walked off, the blonde pushing the trolley and the other seemingly carrying on with her story.

The cashier was looking expectantly at her and Jean realized that she had totalled up. Information technology was iv pounds and 80-seven pence. She had the right money, it but meant sorting her alter out. She had an inclination that the people behind her were condign impatient. She noticed their stack of items all lined and waiting, it seemed, for starters orders.14 Brown staff of life and peppers, olive oil and, in the center, a packet of beefburgers.

She gave over her coin and picked up her carrier bag. She felt a sense of relief to exist abroad from the mass of people. She felt out of place.15

Walking out of the door she wondered what she might take for tea. Possibly chicken, she thought, with salad. Walking towards her car she thought that she should have bought the cookery book later on all. She suddenly felt much better in the fresh air. She'd purchase information technology next calendar week. And in time to come she'd buy a large salad cream. After all, what if people came round unexpectedly?

Proper Names

Anne Cassidy ['{n 'k{sIdI] � ��

Jean [³i:due north] � ��

J. Sainsbury PLC ['³eI 'seInsb@rI 'pi: 'el 'si:] � �� (��.: PLC � Privately Licensed Visitor � �� )

Whiskas ['wIsk@due south] � �� (��.: �� )

Vocabulary Notes

1. ... why I should take to put upwardly with her at family occasions. � ... � �� .

2. ... giving an accessory of nods and headshaking at the appropriate parts. � ... � �� , �� .

three. Jean felt her patience beginning to itch. � �� , �� .

iv. ... the quick till ... � ... ��-�� ...

5. ... a see-through tray of tomatoes which barbarous prey to the rest. � ... �� , �� .

half-dozen. ... when I turned upwards? ... �� ?

vii. You can always tell a person by their shopping. � �� , �� , �� .

8. ... a gross of fish fingers ... � ... �� ...

9. ... her individual yoghurt seemed to say information technology all. � ... ��, �� .

x. Call up of all the oriental foods you can become into ... � �� , �� ...

eleven. Jean put the ruler downwardly on the conveyor chugalug. � �� . (��.: � �� . �� , �� , �� , �� .)

12. ... processed kind. � ... ��.

13. Of class, we've had our ups and downs ... � ��, � �� , �� ...

14. ... for starters orders. � ... �� .

xv. She felt out of identify. � �� .

Phonetic Text Drills

○ Exercise 1

Transcribe and pronounce correctly the words from the text.

Queue, extraordinary, accompaniment, advisable, couple, to itch, wire, elephantine, giant, carton, prey, stuff, rearrange, triumphant, trolley, maxim, yoghurt, quarter, cashier, to poise, check, gross, oriental, conveyor, dejectedly, salmon, candy, purse, leather, to total.

○ Exercise ii

Pronounce the words and phrases where the post-obit clusters occur.

1. Plosive + 1

Couple, but, plastic, immediately, what looked, glossy, blank, difficult await, dejectedly, expectantly, maybe.

ii. Plosive + west

Blonde adult female, that woman, put up with her, quick, twenty, dark woman, ended with a quick nod, between, agreement with her thoughts, questions, and waiting.

○ Exercise 3

Pronounce afterwards the journalist. Say what kind of imitation assimilation one should avoid in the following cases.

1. Of her, of steps, of tomatoes, of throwing, of stuff, of course, nosotros've had, of people, out of place.

2. Was there, size salad, was sick, was something, as though, was so, with salad.

3. Noticed the-other, at the lesser, put the ruler, about their shopping, liked the processed kind, felt the frustration, that the people, noticed their stack, bought the volume.

○ Exercise four

Consult the dictionary and put stresses in the following compound nouns.

Half-used, cardboard, twenty-pound, family-size, cornflakes, washing-powder, hardback, pinpoint, eighty-seven, beefburgers.

○ Do 5

I. Intone the post-obit general questions.

'Should she accept 'got such a ↑small 'size 'salad /cream? ||

'Should she 'become and 'change it for a 'larger /size? ||

2. Explicate why the following special question is pronounced with a rising intonation.

So 'what did you /say?

�� Comprehension Check

1.�� Whom did Jean hear talking in the queue?

2.�� Why was Jean's patience first to itch?

three.�� Why couldn't Jean get through the quick till?

4.�� When did Jean begin to rearrange the items in her shopping basket?

5.�� Was Jean the concluding in the queue or not?

6.�� What did Jean meet in her ain shopping basket?

seven.�� Whom did the cashier suddenly address?

8.�� What caught Jean'south eye suddenly? Why?

ix.�� What did Jean recall about the shopping trips with her friend?

ten. Why did Jean put the book dorsum in its place?

11. How much did the blonde woman pay?

12. Did Jean see the two women get out the store or not?

xiii. How much did Jean pay?

14. Why did Jean think that people behind her were becoming impatient?

15. What did Jean feel after she had left the supermarket?

16.What did Jean think about while she was going towards her auto?

17. What did she suddenly decide?

EXERCISES

Practise 1

I. Find in the text words or phrases similar in meaning to the post-obit.

A cash desk, a purchase, coca-cola, a plastic bag, big size cartons, to calculate, appurtenances, a heap, one-half-empty.

Ii. Give your own words or expressions similar in meaning to the ones from the text.

To pinpoint, to burn down questions, to rearrange, to requite a blank wait, to take hold of one's eye, a snatch of conversation, to flush, to grit one's teeth together, to beg.

Practice two

Below run into the list of the words from the text. Think of words opposite in meaning to them.

extraordinary �� oriental

appropriate �� traditional

triumphant �� empty

familiar �� to push

individual �� indecision

impatient �� to buy

Practice 3

The author herself uses synonymous words and expressions in the text. Say how otherwise the author puts the post-obit.

to count � �� to continue �

to give over money � �� small salad cream�

elephantine � �� write out a check �

wire basket � �� cram in �

Exercise 4

When postpositions are added to verbs, the meanings of the latter can utterly alter. Choose the right one from the 2 given in brackets. Explicate the difference in meanings.

1. (put; put up)

a) The dark woman ... all the stuff into her carrier bag.

b) Jean thought that she had to ... with a loss of fourth dimension.

two. (turn; plough up)

a) Jean ... her head and saw a queue behind her.

b) Jean remembered the fourth dimension when he suddenly ... and they went on their shopping trips.

3. (pick; choice upwards)

a) The customers ... goods from the racks while walking forth the aisles.

b) Final summer in that location were a lot of blueberries in the forest. We oftentimes went at that place to ... them.

4. (make; brand out)

a) The gentleman at the till asked the cashier to ... a bill for him.

b) Jean thought that she would ... a salad in the evening, probably with chicken.

v. (write; write out)

a) When Jean and he were together they sometimes ... messages to each other.

b) He e'er paid in greenbacks and never ... cheques.

six. (bear; bear on)

a) A lot of women never ... heavy bags, as they think it to be non ladylike.

b) The people in the queue were interested in the end of the story and she ... with information technology.

7. (pass; laissez passer downward)

a) The woman at the till... the cardboard box to her married man and they both left.

b) Jean ... the rack with family-size cartons of cornflakes indifferently.

8. (come; come round)

a) Parting with her friend Jean tried to seem devil-may-care and said casually, '... some fourth dimension'.

b) '...to see me', the blonde woman said to her friend.

9. (cram; cram in)

a) Though the box was already full the woman managed to ... the concluding pack offish fingers amongst the rest.

b) The supermarket was ... with customers on that day.

10. (walk, walk off)

a) Jean never ... to the supermarket as the way was far too long; she went there past auto.

b) Slowly Jean ... from the supermarket deep in her thoughts.

Practice 5

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Exercise half dozen

I. Pick out from the text the terms used to denote:

a) objects we use to put our purchases in,

b) amounts or quantities of some stuff,

c) certain details of the interior in a supermarket,

d) names of foodstuffs and drinks.

II. Brand up a listing of products which Jean saw

a) in her own wire handbasket,

b) in other people's baskets or trollies.

III. Observe and read aloud sentences saying

a) what Jean thought of herself and her purchases,

b) what Jean thought of other people and their purchases.

Exercise 7

Find in the text sentences containing the words given beneath. Consult the lexicon to pick out all their meanings. Illustrate these meanings with your ain examples.

wire�� stuff�� cover�� belt�� beg

item�� quarter�� assuming�� curl�� alter

Exercise 8

Consummate the statements past choosing the answer which you recollect fits best.

1. Female parent never buys goods displayed on the racks with the find "... offer".

A. specific�� B. special�� C. particular

2. The customers are asked to load their purchases on to the conveyor ....

A. strap�� B. line�� C. belt

three. Information technology is a lot more convenient to push a ... than to carry a wire handbasket in a supermarket.

A. trolley�� B. roller�� C. van

4. While shopping my brother always tries to go through a ... till, as he hates queues.

A. swift�� B. fast�� C. quick

5. Housewives prefer to buy ... packets of stuff, as it is a fiddling bit cheaper.

A. gross-size�� B. family-size� C. block-size

half dozen. Sometimes the queues at... points are so long that the idea of leaving the supermarket without buying anything may look bonny.

A. check-out�� B. check-in�� C. cheque-upward

seven. Customers are not allowed to put things in their ain bags in supermarkets; they are suposed to use ....

A. iron baskets B. shop baskets C. wire baskets

viii. A lot of people prefer to ... a bank check than to pay in greenbacks.

A. write out�� B. write in�� C. write upwards

9. Salesgirls normally put all goods bought in a supermarket into ... for the customers' convenience.

A. trade numberless�� B. carrier bags C. supermarket bags

10. 'Here's your ... from a ten-pound note', said the cashier giving me three pounds.

A. substitution�� B. change�� C. bill

Exercise 9

Piece of work in pairs. Discuss with your partner some interesting shopping experience. Utilise at least five expressions from the list below.

To fall into silence, to be sure, to exist sick of throwing away something, to feel one'south cheeks affluent, on i's easily and knees, to dust i'south teeth together, to await behind, a favourite proverb, from fourth dimension to fourth dimension, to scream out from the front cover, foods i can become into, after all, eye to eye, to requite a blank look, to hand somebody something, assuming messages, to fire questions, a soap opera, ups and downs, to sum up, to acquit on with the story, to have the right money, a sense of relief, to be away from, to feel out of place, to experience better in the fresh air, to come round unexpectedly, to torn up, to take hold of one'southward eye.

Exercise 10

Fill in the gaps with the prepositions from the list: into, through, of, together, for, by, beside, in, on to.

1. The girl thought that glass bottles of milk would be too heavy to comport and inverse them ... plastic packets.

ii. One can tell a practiced customer ... the manner he or she chooses goods.

3. The lady screamed and all people in the hall immediately fell ... silence.

4. The baby-sit from the security service helped the lady to go out of the shop and she felt better ... the fresh air.

5. Anyone can get ill... the long queues at bank check-out points.

6. The customers are asked to put the stuff...... the conveyor belt.

7. If one has got not more than three items, he or she tin become ... a quick till.

8. When the queue is likewise long one tin practise nothing but grit his or her teeth ... and wait dutifully.

ix. The most annoying thing about shopping is standing ... the till and watching how slowly people pay.

Exercise 11

Limited the same idea using different wording and grammar.

1.�� Jean noticed the other woman giving an accessory of nods and headshaking at the appropriate parts.

2.�� Jean felt her patience get-go to itch.

3.�� There was nothing else for information technology � she'd just accept to wait.

4.�� She was sick of throwing abroad half-used bottles.

five.�� Jean looked behind and saw that she was hemmed in by �� 3 large trollies.

6.�� She was addressing a man who had been poised and waiting to write out a check for a few moments.

7.�� Jean looked once more at her basket and began to experience the familiar feeling of regret that visited her from fourth dimension to time.

8.�� Nodding in agreement with her thoughts Jean found herself eye to eye with the blonde woman.

nine. She picked upwards the cookery volume and felt the frustration of indecision.

ten. She peeled off iii x pound notes and handed them to the cashier.

xi. She had the right coin, it but meant sorting her alter out.

12. She had an inclination that the people backside her were becoming impatient.

xiii. She noticed their stack of items all lined and waiting, it seemed, for starters orders.

xiv. She felt a sense of relief to be away from the mass of people.

Exercise 12

Find the bit starting with the post-obit words and explain why Jean was feeling that way

'Jean looked up quickly and ...'

'She gritted her teeth together ...'

'Jean looked again at her basket and began to feel ...'

'Information technology was all such a performance.'

'She suddenly felt much better in the fresh air.'

Exercise 13

Speak about Jean'due south visit to the supermarket:

1. in the 3rd person;

2. in the person of Jean herself;

3. in the person of the blonde adult female;

4. in the person of the cashier.

Exercise xiv

Word points.

1. What can you say nigh Jean every bit a person? Try to derive data from the pocket-sized details of her behaviour.

2. Was departing with her friend a shocking feel for Jean or not?

3. What can you lot say almost the 2 women?

4. Do y'all concur that i can always tell a person by their shopping?

five. Why does the story end with a question? What does it mean?

Exercise 15

I. Imagine that your female parent gives y'all a shopping list, which you lot see below. Retrieve in what shops you can buy these things and put the names of items in the graphs of the chart.

a loaf of brown bread �� 1 kg of pork

1 big cod �� a bottle of vinegar

i kg of pork �� 2 medium-sized herrings

three lemons �� a tin of sardines in oil

0.three kg of ham �� 2 kg of potatoes

i small cabbage �� a large chicken

a can of condensed milk �� biscuits

a bunch of radishes �� a handbag ofnour

a drum of margarine �� a 0.5 kg pack of sour cream

0.5 kg of cheese�� 0.2 kg of butter

dairy shop	butcher's	baker's	fishmonger's	grocer's	greengrocer's

2. Sum up what you have written and say what and where you can buy.

► Pattern: I can buy ... at the bakery's.

Practice xvi

I. Match the phrases in the left column with the words in the correct column.

1.�� a bottle of�� A. jam

2.�� a parcel of�� B. parsley

3.�� a dmm of�� C. toothpaste

4.�� a block of�� D. cleanser

5.�� a carton of�� E. juice

6.�� a jar of�� F. chocolates

7.�� a tin of�� Thou. eggs

8.�� a tube of�� H. honey

9.�� a bunch of�� I. sugar

10. a box of�� J. soap

xi. a tub of�� K. luncheon meat

Ii. Call up and say what else tin be sold in cartons, bunches, etc.

Exercise 17

I. Look through the list of products and say which of them are sold in Russian federation:

1) past the kilo,

ii) past quantity,

3) past tens.

Fish, carrots, kiwi, meat, eggs, pineapples, sausages, rye bread, oranges.

Ii. Look through the listing of products and say which of them are soldin Great Britain:

one) by lbs*

two) by quantity

3) by dozens.

* lb � abbreviation from the Latin discussion "libra" � ��, in spoken language information technology is pronounced "pound". Eastward.g. three lbs � three pounds.

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

3. Say which products from the list beneath are priced:

ane) per kilo,

2) per each.

Onions, tomatoes, wheat bread, tinned meat, cabbages, mangoes, buns, chops, apples, cucumbers.

Exercise 18

Exclude from the lists below products which cannot exist sold as preprepared, frozen, stale, tinned.

pre-prepared

frozen

stale

tinned

garlics

steaks

fish fillet potatoes tomatoes

cherries onions turkey

bread spaghetti

bananas fish

meat

ham

plums

flour

pork peaches lettuce

tuna

Exercise 19

Read the text and reconstruct the family unit situation. Tell the story to your classmates.

Exercise 20

I. Say what and how much you should buy if you are going to make:

1) Russian beet and cabbage soup � borsch;

2) Salad which they call in Russia "Olivier salad";

iii) An apple pie.

► Pattern: If I am going to make ... I will buy ....

2. Say what and how much you purchase to melt your favourite dish.

III. Guess what a housewife was going to melt if her shopping list included:

i. 2 lbs beefiness; 1 lb pork; white bread; eggs; 1/two lb onions, i canteen milk.

2. 2 lbs wheat flour; one/two doz eggs; two bottles milk; 1 pack yeast;

one/2 Ib sugar.

three. ane/ii lb rice; 1 lb smoked fish; 1 lb onions; 1/2 dbz eggs; 1 jar mayonnaise.

4. iv lbs lamb; ii lbs tomatoes; 2 lbs onions; 1 bottle dry white wine; i pack pepper.

v. ii lbs pork; 1 bag potatoes; 1 lb carrots; 1 head cabbage; i/2 lbs onions; 1 bunch celery; 1 bunch parsley; ane pack laurel leaves.

�►Pattern: The housewife was going to cook ... if she bought....

Exercise 21

Continuing in a queue at the cheque-out is a dull business organisation. Some people invent games to make the time laissez passer quicker. One of them comes to guessing what people's lifestyles are likely to exist judging past the contents of their shopping baskets.

I. Read the following passages and try to say something about people's families, homes, lifestyles.

Body linguistic communication can tell a stranger a lot almost i'due south personality, so can the fruits of one's shopping expedition.

Yesterday I observed a beautiful young lady. While her picayune daughter begged unsuccessfully for a bun, she was advisedly choosing a shampoo, pilus conditioner and bathroom perfume. Then she picked up a couple of cinema magazines and went to the bank check-out.

I looked down into her trolley and shuddered: three gallons of milk, three loaves of breadstuff, four chickens, a mountain of baby-food jars, cakes and pies.

I especially similar to observe male shoppers. I don't hateful househusbands dutifiilly checking items off a list. I prefer a gourmet who knows the real taste of things: imported cheeses, exotic spices, a whole leg of lamb, early asparagus.

I felt hostility flowing from the woman standing behind me in the supermarket bank check-out queue. Had I cut in forepart of her? She was glaring into my handbasket. I quickly surveyed my selections to meet what could exist generating such hostility. Permit'south see: two bottles of champagne, a lovely avocado, a pound of shrimp, and a quart of purified h2o.

II. Fancy what i can see in a shopping handbasket of:

1) a good housewife;

2) a divorced man;

three)�� a woman on a diet;

four)�� a hearty eater;

5)�� someone expecting guests.

Iii. Recollect of other games you tin play in your head to make the fourth dimension pass when you lot are waiting in a queue.

Practise 22

I. Read and interpret the following dialogues. Reproduce them.

○ Dialogue ane

At the Grocery store

Grocer: Hello, Ann, how are you doing today?

Ann:�� Fine, thanks. How are you?

Grocer: I am okay, thank you. What can I get for y'all, Ann?

Ann:�� I 'd like half a pound of butter, a pound jar of strawberry jam, a large bottle of vinegar and a tin of sardines.

Grocer: Will that be all?

Ann:�� No, I'd also like a pocket-size-sized parcel of mushroom soup and a piece of smoked bacon. Grocer Will this exercise? Information technology's all we have at the moment, I'mafraid.

Ann:�� No, it'due south much likewise fatty. I wanted it leaner. I recall I'd improve accept some ham instead. How much is information technology?

Grocer: Eighty pence a pound.

Ann:�� Practiced. Half a pound, please. That'll be all. How much does it come to?

Grocer: Five pounds thirty seven pence, please.

Ann:�� Right. Here is half-dozen pounds.

Grocer: And here is your change.

Ann:�� Thanks.

Grocer: Proficient-bye, Ann. Thanks. Come tomorrow, we'll have a new stock.

○ Dialogue 2

�� At the Butcher'south

Shop assistant:�� Tin I help you, madam?

Mrs. Gi1bert:�� I'd like a leg of lamb. Exercise you sell information technology?

Shop banana:�� Yes, we practise, but I'm afraid we've sold out at the moment. If you'd care to phone call in tomorrow.

Mrs. Gi1bert:�� Give thanks y'all, I won't bother! I'll buy some pork instead.

Shop assistant:�� Oh, yes. Nosotros've got excellent option today. What function would y'all similar to get � shoulder, leg or some other?

Mrs. Gilbert:�� This scrap of shoulder is fine with me.

Shop banana:�� Okay. It weighs iv pounds.

Mrs.Gilbert:�� I'll also have a chicken.

Shop banana:�� Boiling or frying?

Mrs. Gilbert:�� Humid, please.

Shop assistant:�� Volition this do?

Mrs. Gilbert:�� Dainty. That will exist all. How much is it?

Shop assistant:�� Three pounds twenty pence.

Mrs.Gilbert:�� Hither yous are.

Shop assistant: Your change, madam. Thank you lot. Have a nice day.

○ Dialogue 3

At the Greengrocer's

Greengrocer:�� Practiced forenoon, Mrs. Daisy. How are you this morning?

Mrs. Daisy:�� Fine, thanks. And how are yous?

Greengrocer:�� I'k having a piffling trouble. Some of my supplies aren't here yet. So I don't have tomatoes and peppers.

Mrs. Daisy:�� Oh, that'south a shame. Will you have some afterward?

Greengrocer:� Oh, yes, they will be delivered in the afternoon. I'll relieve them for you.

Mrs. Daisy:�� Thank you. It'southward very kind of you. And at present I'll accept a bag of potatoes, a couple of beets and some carrots.

Greengrocer: All right. Notice the fruit nosotros've got today. The peaches are very good.

Mrs. Daisy:�� The peaches do look practiced. What exercise they cost? Greengrocer: Peaches are quite cheap this time of the yr. Thirty pence a pound.

Mrs.Daisy:�� That'due south a real bargain. I'll accept three pounds.

Greengrocer: Okay. Now, what else?

Mrs. Daisy:�� Well, that'southward all for today. How much do I owe you?

Greengrocer: That'due south four pounds 70 5 pence. Here'southward your change from your five pound annotation � xx five pence.

Mrs. Daisy:�� Thank you. Good-bye.

Greengrocer: Good-bye, Mrs. Daisy. Thank you a lot.

Two. Option out from the three dialogues sentences, which announce the shop administration'

a) greeting their customers,

b) offering goods,

c) telling the toll of goods.

Iii. Pick out from the three dialogues sentences, which denote the customer's

a) greeting store assistants,

b) telling what they demand,

c) asking about the price.

IV. Brand upwards your own dialogues and enact them in course.

Do 23

Interpret into English language.

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3. � �� , �� , � �� 99.

4. �� : ��, ��, ��, ��, � �� .

5. � �� , �� , �� , � �� .

6. �� , � �� , � �� . � �� : � �� , �� ; � �� , �� .

7. �� , �� .

viii. � �� , � �� , �� .

9. �� : �� .

10. �� . �� : �� , �� , �� .

xi. �� , � �� -�� , ��, �� , �� , �� , �� . �� .

12. �� , �� -��.

13. �� , �� , �� , � �� .

fourteen. �� , �� .

15. �� , �� .

Do 24

In five minutes write what you purchase ofttimes and seldom. Compare what yous accept written with the lists of other students. Hash out the results and try to classify your classmates past putting them in certain categories of shoppers. You lot tin give the names to these categories yourselves.

► Patterns: 1) I frequently purchase bread, ...�� I seldom buy caviar, ... two) In my stance, Kate is a devil-may-care shopper, because ...

Do 25

Work in groups. Each group should make upward a list of products which people ordinarily buy at the age of ten. fifteen, thirty, fifty, seventy. Compare your lists and discuss them agreeing, adding details or criticizing.

► Utilise:

I completely hold that.. �� I'one thousand not sure that...

In that location is no doubt that... �� I really dubiousness that...

I also have the thought that �� I utterly disagree that

Who would argue that... �� I don't think that...

Do 26

Hash out the following points in class.

1. What is preferable for you � to buy food in a large supermarket or in small shops? Why?

2. Where are the all-time shops for food in your urban center or town?

three. Speak about foodstuffs sold in your shops. Say whether they are shipped in or grown locally; say which are expensive and cheap; say what foodstuffs which you might take seen in the shops abroad are not sold in this country.

iv. Do they sell foodstuffs under the counter nowadays? What kind of goods tin those exist?

v. Do you pay attention to the brand name when yous purchase food? If non, how do you make your pick?

6. What is your personal style of shopping for food? Practise you buy at once or do you take your fourth dimension to wait around for lower prices?

7. How ofttimes do you buy very expensive foodstuffs? What kind of products are those? When does it happen?

Do 27

Match the English idioms in the left columnn with their Russian equivalents in the correct column.

1.�� to put a hole in one'due south bag�� . ��

two.�� to go to pot�� . ��

iii.�� to go for a song�� . ��

4.�� at all costs�� D. ��

v.�� to jack up the price�� . ��

6.�� to flood the market place�� F. ��

7.�� to feather ane's nest�� Chiliad. ��

viii.�� not for love or money�� . ��

9.�� to price a pretty penny�� I. ��

10. to pay through the nose�� J. ��

11. to get something off one's easily�� . ��

Practise 28

Highlight the meanings of the English language proverbs and make upward situations to illustrate them.

1. Forbidden fruit is sugariness.

2. Tastes differ.

iii. Dearest is sweetness but the bee stings.

iv. Take it or get out it.

Do 29

Translate the following quotations into Russian and comment upon them.

'The public buys its opinions equally it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that information technology is cheaper to do this than keep a cow. And then it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.'

Samuel Butler

'Creditors have meliorate memories than debtors.'

Benjamin Franklin

'Necessity never fabricated a practiced bargain.'

Benjamin Franklin

'England is a nation of shopkeepers.'

Napoleon I

'If a continental greengrocer asks 14 schillings (or crowns, or franks..., or whatever you like) for a agglomeration of radishes, and his client offers 2, and finally they strike a bargain agreeing on 6 schillings, francs, roubles, etc., this is merely the depression continental habit of bargaining.'

George Mikes

Do thirty

Role Play "Organising a Party".

Setting:� ��i) A academy refectory, where the students distribute duties to make purchases.

ii) A supermarket.

Situation: Yous decide to celebrate some holiday or simply organise a political party at someone'southward abode. Everyone volition have to bring something for the table and later on you'll cook together. Enact buying things in a shop. Elaborate the situation yourselves. Fancy that you've left money at habitation or there are no goods you need on auction or you forget something at the terminal instant.

Characters:

Menu I�� Molly, the daughter, who is going to organise it all. She decides who should buy things and says what you volition need them for.

Card 2�� Sally, the banana who serves you in the shop y'all choose.

Bill of fare Iii�IV � Bob and Rob, boys who will buy heavy things in the shop.

CardV-X� - Nelly, Kelly, Dolly, Polly, Lilly, Tilly, tree pairs of students who walk around the supermarket and hash out what they have to buy.

Menu XI�� Penny, the cashier at the till.

WRITING

Do ane

Learn the spelling of the italicized words from Introductory Reading and the words from exercise 1 on page 120. Prepare to write a dictation.

Do 2

Interpret into English in writing.

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