II. Read these texts. Be ready to discuss them.

SHOPPING

 

When we want to buy something, we go to a shop. There are many kinds of shops in every town or city, but most of them have a food supermarket, a department store, men’s and women’s clothing stores, a grocery, a bakery and a butchery.

I like to do my shopping at big department stores and supermarkets. They sell various goods under one roof and this is very convenient.

A department store is composed of many departments: ready-made clothes, fabrics, shoes, sports goods, toys, china and glass, electric appliances, cosmetics, linen, curtains, cameras, records, etc. You can buy everything you like there.

The things for sale are on the counters so that they can be easily seen. In the women’s clothing department you can find dresses, costumes, blouses, skirts, coats, beautiful underwear and many other things.

In the men’s clothing department you can choose suits, trousers, overcoats, ties, etc. In the knitwear department one can buy sweaters, cardigans, short-sleeved and long-sleeved pull-overs, woollen jackets. In the perfumery they sell face cream and powder, lipstick, lotions and shampoos.

In a food supermarket we can also buy many different things at once: sausages, fish, sugar, macaroni, flour, cereals, tea. At the butcher’s there is a wide choice of meat and poultry. At the bakery you buy brown and white bread, rolls, biscuits.

The greengrocery is stocked with cabbage, potatoes, onions, cucumbers, carrots, beetroots, green peas and what not. Everything is sold here ready-weighed and packed. At a dairy you can buy milk, cream, cheese, butter and many other products.

The method of shopping may vary. It may be a self-service shop where the customer goes from counter to counter selecting and putting into a basket what he wishes to buy. If it is not a self-service shop the shop-assistant helps the customer in finding what he wants. You pay money to the cashier and he gives you back the change and a sales slip.

 

 

Text vocabulary

 

· short/ long-sleeved pull-over	· пуловер с короткими/ длинными рукавами
· ready-weighed and packed	· взвешенный и упакованный/ расфосованный (о продуктах)

 

 

In the supermarket

 

One day my friend Nick and I decided to go shopping. Nick needed some new clothes badly. There are a lot of shops, supermarkets and department stores in the centre of the city, so we decided to go through some of them.

The first shop on our way was a large supermarket. We needed some groceries.It seemed to us that on the counters and shelves there was everything one could want. We could see sausages of different kinds, fish, meat, poultry. At the bakery there was bread, rolls, buscuits. At the dairy department there was milk, cream, cheese, butter. Everything was nicely packed and when we came to the cashier our baskets were full of groceries.

Then we went to the department store. We couldn’t go past the electric appliances department. There were a lot of computers, video cassette recorders, TV sets, hi-fi centres and tape recorders. We wanted to have a look at the latest models. But we needed some presents. It was my mother’s birthday in a few days and Nick’s father’s birthday in a week. I decided to buy a food processor and Nick chose an electric razor.

At the men’s clothing department there were a lot of suits, trousers, jackets, shirts and many other things. Nick needed a suit because he was going to the theatre with his girlfriend. Nick is very tall and slim. So it is always difficult to find clothes that would suit him perfectly. The shop assistant asked Nick’s size and offered him a nice suit. But when Nick tried it on I couldn’t help laughing. The jacket was too big for him and the trousers were too short. He looked so funny! The shop assistant then suggested that Nick should try on some jackets and some trousers separately. The pin-striped jacket matched the black trousers perfectly. The shop assistant also showed Nick a wonderful tie and he immediately agreed to buy it.

We had to go home by taxi because our bags were so huge that we could hardly lift them. We came home completely broke but happy.

Text Vocabulary

 

· broke	· без денег
· electric razor	· электробритва
· hi-fi equipment	· аудио-аппаратура
· huge	· огромный
· I couldn’t help laughing.	· Я не мог не рассмеяться.
· nicely packed	· красиво упакованный
· on one’s way	· по дороге, на пути
· pin-striped jacket	· пиджак в тонкую полоску
· slim	· стройный
· to agree	· согласиться