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Shops and Shopping

Shops are very important in our life, it is there, that we can buy our food, clothes and other things. People usually go shopping at week-end. During the whole week they analyze their family’s requirements and put all things, they need, in a shop list. After that they decide, what department stores shops or market they must visit.

We buy bread at the baker’s. At the grocery shop we can buy tea, coffee, sugar, tinned and bottled goods, butter cheese, dried fruit, eating and cooking apples, plums, pears, fresh and sweet peaches, jars of different fruit juices, jams, sweets, pastry, nuts also and other things which people need. If we want to buy meat: sausages, ham, bacon, smoked pork and other prepared meats, we go to the butcher’s. Almost everybody goes to the market to buy eggs, milk, curds, vegetables and many other things.

Department Stores can offer a wide variety of useful things including articles of clothing stationery: pens, pencils, note-books, paper, hosiery; cutlery: forks, spoons, knives; crockery: plates, dishes, cups an so on. You can visit other departments: haberdashery, leather-ware department, ready-clothes department, footwear department.

As a rule I go shopping on Friday and Saturday to renew the supply of food and drinks. We come up to the counter where we can buy eggs, meat or fish and other goods. We ask the shop assistant how much the things cost, because the prices are changing rapidly. Soon we fill our shopping bags with necessary products and carry them home.

As for me I like to go to the shops, because I want to be well-dressed, to look modern and elegant.

3. Answer the following questions:

1. Are shops very important in our life?

1. Where do we buy bread?
2. What can you buy at the grocery shop?
3. Where do you go to buy meat?
4. What products can we buy in the market?
5. What things can you buy in the Department Store?
6. What departments do you know?
7. What things are sold at stationary? (cutlery, ready-made clothes,…)
8. When do you usually go shopping?
9. Which is the biggest Department Store in Cherkassy? What can you buy there?
10. Why do you go shopping?

4. Fill in the gaps with the missing words:

1. Our Central Department Store is a huge shop with a lot of _________________ and shelves.

1. You will be impressed by a ______________ of useful things.
2. If you want to buy casual shoes, you go to __________________________.
3. If you need watch or hand mirror, you go to _____________________.
4. On the second floor of the Department Store there is _________________, where you can buy note-paper, paper clips, note-books.
5. Ready made clothes department _______________________ the latest models of woman and men suits.
6. You may ask _______________________ to show you any thing you want.
7. On the first floor we renew _______________________.
8. It is there that we can buy _____________________________.
9. We fill _______________ with _____________________ and pay the money at the ________________.
10. Usually people _________________________ on Saturday and Sunday.

5. Find English equivalents of the following Ukrainian words:

Прилавок; ходити за покупками; продавець; корисні речі; м’ясний магазин; бакалейний магазин; запропонувати; широкий асортимент; канцелярські товари; майже кожен; хлібний магазин; аналізувати сімейні потреби; вирішувати; ринок; універмаг; відділ готового одягу, галантерея; відділ шкіряного одягу; відділ панчішно-шкарпеткових виробів; відділ глиняного і фаянсового посуду; відділ взуття; предмети одягу; покупець; виглядати модно; бути добре вдягненим; сумка для покупок; коштувати; поповнювати запас їжі і напоїв; кондитерські вироби; сухофрукти; сир; сік; дешевий; швидко; дорогий; щодо мене; виглядати елегантно.

6. Read and translate the following dialogues:

Shop-assistant: Can I help you?

Customer: I want to buy a new coat. Can you show me that one.

Shop-assistant: I think, it’s not your size. Let’s see.

Customer: Yes, you are right. It’s not my size. Show me something of the same colour, but 2 sizes larger.

Shop-assistant: Here you are. It suits you perfectly.

Customer: May I regard myself in the mirror?

Shop-assistant: Of course. This way, please.

Customer: What is the price of it?

Shop-assistant: Two hundred grivnas.

Customer: Where do I pay?

Shop-assistant: Over there at the cash-desk.

Customer: Thank you.

Helen is in one of the biggest department stores in the city.

Helen: Excuse me. How do I get to the shoe department?

Shop-assistant: It’s over there on the left, please.

(In the shoe department)

Helen: I want a pair of boots, please.

Shop-assistant: What’s your size?

Helen: Thirty-four, and I want very warm ones, too. It’s very cold outside.

Shop-assistant: Oh, yes it’s terrible cold. Thirty-four… You have very small feet. It won’t be easy to find a suitable pair, I’m afraid.

(In a few minutes)

Shop-assistant: These are nice boots, don’t you think? Will you try them on? How do they feel?

Helen: I think they’re a size too big. Perhaps you can find a different pair. Can you give me a size smaller?

Shop-assistant: Just a moment. I’ll have another look. You’re lucky. Here’s a lovely pair; but it’s more expensive.

Helen: That doesn’t matter… It feels more comfortable. I think I’ll take it. How much is it?

Shop-assistant: One hundred and eighty grivnas.

Helen: Where do I pay?

Shop-assistant: Over there at the cash-desk.

Helen: Thank you.

(After paying the bill)

Shop-assistant: Here are your boots. The check’s inside.

Helen: Thank you. And where’s the glove department?

Another customer: Come along with me, and I’ll show you.

Helen buys some dark-brown gloves to match her new boots.

7. Communication activities:

1. Make up dialogues:

- in the ready-made clothes department:

1) buying a new suit.

2) buying new jeans.

3) buying a new skirt.

- in the haberdashery department:

1) buying a new pair of groves

- in the footwear department:

1) buying a pair of shoes.

2) buying a pair of slippers.

- in the leather-ware department:

1) buying a leather jacket (шкіряна куртка).

2. Imagine a tourist wants to buy presents for his relatives and friends. He asks for your advice. Tell him what shops to try and what articles to buy.

3. Imagine you come home and see a new set of furniture, the latest make of a television set and a new big fridge. You want to know the details of the purchase made: where they bought them, how much they paid for them, etc.

4. Imagine you are going to a housewarming party. You discuss with your partner what presents to buy for the occasion.

5. Imagine you are buying a suit for yourself. You want a special kind of suit. A shop assistant is helping you to make your choice. Roleplay the conversation with a shop assistant.

6. You are going to congratulate a girl on her birthday. You ask your partner for his advice. He wants to know the age of the girl, her interests, her hobbies, etc. Eventually you agree on a certain kind of present.

7. Make up advertisements on some goods. Use the following examples for reference.

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