Read the Book a Visit to the Market

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Lesson 5 shopping for food

INTRODUCTORY READING AND TALK

Ownership foodstuffs in a modern supermarket tin can be considered a sort of art. Information technology is the fine art of combating a temptation.

Supermarkets play a dirty fox on the customers: practically every shopper is tempted to purchase things he or she does not need or cannot afford.

The mechanism of this distressing deceit is uncomplicated. Firstly, supermarkets are laid out to brand a person laissez passer as many shelves and counters as possible. Only the hardest of souls tin can pass 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. One picks upwards a small item, say, a pack of spaghetti, puts information technology into a huge trolley and is immediately ashamed 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 so one cannot but feel an impulse to buy. And, finally, supermarkets don't forget about those who look for bargains. The so-chosen "deal bins" filled with special offers wait for their victims. No ane can tell for sure if the prices are really reduced, only it is so dainty to boast later that you take a very good centre for a bargain.

So when a simple-hearted client approaches a 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 cash register is calculation up the prices. And, getting a receipt, he or she gives a sigh of relief if the indicated sum does not exceed the cash he or she has.

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

A lot of people adopt to practise their shopping in small shops. The daily shopping route of some housewives includes visits to the baker's, butcher's, grocer's, greengrocer's, fishmonger's and a dairy store. In the end of the route their numberless are total of loaves of bread, meat cuts, packs with cereals, fruit, vegetables, fish and dairy products. Just very strong women tin call in at the tobacconist'southward afterward all that.

The explanation for this housewives' craze is very simple. In every shop their buys are weighed, wrapped up, their money taken and the modify given dorsum. Meanwhile they can take a chat with salesgirls and store-assistants well-nigh their weak hearts and broken hopes.

So, friends, get shopping as frequently as you can. Considering the simple truth is: a visit to a skilful shop is worth two visits to a good doctor.

ane. Fancy that you take a fiddling child to a supermarket for the first time. Explain to him what you see around and what one should practice.

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

b) your favourite supermarket.

iii. Say how yous buy goods in an ordinary store and in a supermarket.

4. Say what one can purchase in the shops mentioned in the text (bakery's, butcher's, etc.)

○ TEXT

Shopping for Ane

(A story by Anne Cassidy. Abridged)

Supermarkets are much the same the globe over � especially the queues at check-out points. What extraordinary things other people are buying! There are odd snatches of overheard conversation as well. Only what if one is living alone, 'Shopping for ane'?

'Then what did you say?' Jean heard the blonde adult female in front of her talking to her friend.

'Well,' the darker woman began, 'I said I'one thousand not having that adult female there. I don't run into why I should. I hateful I'm not being onetime-fashioned but I don't see why I should have to put up with her at family occasions.1 Later on all...'

Jean noticed the other woman giving an accessory of nods and headshaking at the appropriate parts.two They fell into silence and the queue moved forward a couple of steps.

Jean felt her patience beginning to itch.3 Looking into her wire basket she counted 10 items. That meant she couldn't go through the quick till4 but only had to wait behind elephantine shopping loads; giant bottles of coke crammed in beside twenty-pound bags of potatoes and 'special offer' drums of bleach. Somewhere at the bottom, Jean thought, there was ever a plastic carton of eggs or a see-through tray of tomatoes which fell casualty to the rest.5 There was nothing else for information technology � she'd only accept to wait.

'After all,' the nighttime woman resumed her conversation, 'how would it look if she was there when I turned upward?'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 foam? Jean wasn't sure. She was sick of throwing away half-used bottles of stuff.

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

'On his hands and knees,' the dark woman spoke in a triumphant vocalism. 'Begged me take him dorsum.'

She gritted her teeth together. Should she go and change information technology for a larger size? Jean looked behind and saw that she was hemmed in past 3 large trollies. She'd lose her identify in the queue. There was something so distressing most buying small sizes of everything. Information technology was as though everyone knew.

'You tin can always tell a person by their shopping,'7 was one of her mother's favourite maxims. She looked into her shopping basket: private fruit pies, small salad cream, yoghurt, tomatoes, true cat food and a craven quarter.

The cashier of a sudden said, 'Make information technology out to J. Sainsbury PLC.' She was addressing a human who had been poised and waiting to write out a check for a few moments. His wife was loading what looked similar a gross offish fingers8 into a paper-thin box marked "Whiskas". It was called a division of labour.

Jean looked again at her basket and began to feel the familiar feeling of regret that visited her from fourth dimension to time. Hemmed in betwixt family-size cartons of cornflakes and giant packets of washing-pulverisation, her individual yoghurt seemed to say information technology 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 Ane screamed out from the front cover. Think of all the oriental foods y'all can get into,10 her friend had said. He was so traditional after all. Nodding in agreement with her thoughts Jean plant herself eye to eye with the blonde adult female, who gave her a blank, hard look and handed her what looked similar a black plastic ruler with the words "Next customer please" printed on it in bold messages. She turned back to her friend. Jean put the ruler down on the conveyor chugalug.xi

She thought about 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 only liked the processed kind.12 It was all such a functioning. Continuing there holding her wire basket, 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 connected, lazily passing a few items down to her friend.

Jean began to load her nutrient on to the conveyor belt. She picked up the cookery book and felt the frustrations of indecision. It was only xc pence but it seemed to define everything, to pinpoint her aloneness, to prescribe an empty futurity. She put it back in its place.

'Then that's why I couldn't have her in that location y'all see,' the night woman was summing up. The friends exchanged knowing expressions and the blonde woman got her purse out of a cracking leather bag. She peeled off three ten pound notes and handed them to the cashier.

Jean opened her carrier pocketbook ready for her shopping. She turned to watch the ii women as they walked off, the blonde pushing the trolley and the other seemingly conveying on with her story.

The cashier was looking expectantly at her and Jean realized that she had totalled up. It was four pounds and eighty-seven pence. She had the right coin, it just meant sorting her change out. She had an inclination that the people behind her were becoming impatient. She noticed their stack of items all lined and waiting, information technology seemed, for starters orders.14 Brown bread and peppers, olive oil and, in the center, a parcel of beefburgers.

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

Walking out of the door she wondered what she might take for tea. Perhaps chicken, she thought, with salad. Walking towards her automobile she thought that she should take bought the cookery book afterwards all. She suddenly felt much better in the fresh air. She'd purchase it adjacent week. And in futurity she'd buy a large salad cream. After all, what if people came round unexpectedly?

Proper Names

Anne Cassidy ['{due north 'k{sIdI] � ��� �������

Jean [³i:n] � ����

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

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

Vocabulary Notes

1. ... why I should have to put up with her at family occasions. � ... � ����� ����� � ������ �������� � � ������������ �� �������� ����������.

two. ... giving an accompaniment of nods and headshaking at the appropriate parts. � ... � ���� ������ �� ������, �� ������ �������.

3. Jean felt her patience outset to itch. � ���� �����������, ��� � �������� �������������.

four. ... the quick till ... � ... �����-�������� ...

5. ... a see-through tray of tomatoes which fell casualty to the rest. � ... ���������� ����� � ����������, ������������ ������� ���������.

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

7. You lot tin can e'er tell a person past their shopping. � ������ ����� ����������, ��� �� ������� ����� �����, �� ��� ��������.

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

9. ... her individual yoghurt seemed to say it all. � ... ��������, ��� � ������������ �������� ������� ������� ���� �� ����.

ten. Think of all the oriental foods you lot can get into ... � ��� ���������, ����� ������ �� ������ ��������� ��������� ...

11. Jean put the ruler downwards on the conveyor belt. � ���� �������� ������� �� ��������. (����.: � �������� ������������� ��� �������� ������� ��������� ����������� ��������� �������� �� �������� ������������. ��� ����, ����� ������ ������, ��� �������, ���������� ������ ����������� ������� ������ ����� ����� ������ � ������ ���������.)

12. ... processed kind. � ... ����������������.

xiii. Of form, we've had our ups and downs ... � �������, � ��� ������ �� �����, �� ���� ...

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

15. She felt out of place. � �� ���� �� �� ����.

Phonetic Text Drills

○ Exercise i

Transcribe and pronounce correctly the words from the text.

Queue, extraordinary, accessory, appropriate, couple, to itch, wire, elephantine, giant, carton, casualty, stuff, rearrange, triumphant, trolley, maxim, yoghurt, quarter, cashier, to poise, cheque, gross, oriental, conveyor, dejectedly, salmon, candy, purse, leather, to total.

○ Exercise 2

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

1. Plosive + one

Couple, merely, plastic, immediately, what looked, sleeky, blank, hard expect, dejectedly, expectantly, possibly.

ii. Plosive + due west

Blonde woman, that adult female, put upward with her, quick, twenty, dark woman, concluded with a quick nod, betwixt, agreement with her thoughts, questions, and waiting.

○ Exercise 3

Pronounce after the announcer. Say what kind of false assimilation one should avoid in the following cases.

i. Of her, of steps, of tomatoes, of throwing, of stuff, of form, we've had, of people, out of place.

two. Was in that location, size salad, was sick, was something, as though, was and so, with salad.

iii. Noticed the-other, at the bottom, put the ruler, most their shopping, liked the processed kind, felt the frustration, that the people, noticed their stack, bought the volume.

○ Exercise 4

Consult the dictionary and put stresses in the post-obit compound nouns.

One-half-used, paper-thin, 20-pound, family-size, cornflakes, washing-powder, hardback, pinpoint, lxxx-seven, beefburgers.

○ Exercise 5

I. Intone the following general questions.

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

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

Two. Explain why the post-obit special question is pronounced with a rising intonation.

So 'what did y'all /say?

��������������� Comprehension Cheque

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

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

3.������������ Why couldn't Jean go through the quick till?

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

v.������������ Was Jean the last in the queue or not?

6.������������ What did Jean see in her own shopping basket?

7.������������ Whom did the cashier suddenly accost?

8.������������ What caught Jean's heart suddenly? Why?

nine.������������ What did Jean think nearly the shopping trips with her friend?

10. Why did Jean put the volume back in its identify?

11. How much did the blonde woman pay?

12. Did Jean encounter the ii women leave the store or not?

13. How much did Jean pay?

fourteen. Why did Jean call up that people behind her were becoming impatient?

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

16.What did Jean remember about while she was going towards her car?

17. What did she of a sudden decide?

EXERCISES

Exercise 1

I. Notice in the text words or phrases similar in meaning to the following.

A greenbacks desk, a purchase, coca-cola, a plastic bag, big size cartons, to summate, goods, a heap, half-empty.

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

To pinpoint, to fire questions, to rearrange, to requite a blank look, to grab one'south eye, a snatch of conversation, to affluent, to grit one's teeth together, to beg.

Exercise 2

Beneath see 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 button

individual �������������������������������������������� indecision

impatient ���������������������������������������������� to buy

Exercise iii

The author herself uses synonymous words and expressions in the text. Say how otherwise the writer puts the following.

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 change. Choose the right ane from the two given in brackets. Explicate the divergence in meanings.

1. (put; put upwardly)

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

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

two. (turn; plow up)

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

b) Jean remembered the time when he of a sudden ... and they went on their shopping trips.

iii. (pick; pick up)

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

b) Last summer there were a lot of blueberries in the forest. We often went there to ... them.

iv. (make; make out)

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

b) Jean idea that she would ... a salad in the evening, probably with craven.

v. (write; write out)

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

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

vi. (carry; acquit on)

a) A lot of women never ... heavy bags, as they call back information technology to be not courtly.

b) The people in the queue were interested in the cease of the story and she ... with it.

7. (pass; pass down)

a) The woman at the till... the cardboard box to her hubby 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 time'.

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

9. (cram; cram in)

a) Though the box was already full the woman managed to ... the last pack offish fingers among the residuum.

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.

Practise 5

Find the English language equivalents to the following words or expressions.

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Exercise 6

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 upward a list of products which Jean saw

a) in her ain wire basket,

b) in other people's baskets or trollies.

III. Discover and read aloud sentences proverb

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 below. Consult the dictionary to pick out all their meanings. Illustrate these meanings with your ain examples.

wire������ stuff�������� embrace����� belt����� beg

item������ quarter���� assuming������� gyre����� change

Practise eight

Complete the statements by choosing the answer which yous recall fits best.

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

iv. While shopping my brother always tries to become through a ... till, equally he hates queues.

A. swift������� ��������� B. fast�������� ����������� C. quick

5. Housewives prefer to buy ... packets of stuff, as information technology is a little flake cheaper.

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

6. Sometimes the queues at... points are so long that the idea of leaving the supermarket without ownership anything may look attractive.

A. check-out�� ����� B. check-in��� ������� C. bank check-upwardly

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

A. iron baskets B. store baskets C. wire baskets

8. A lot of people prefer to ... a cheque than to pay in cash.

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

9. Salesgirls commonly 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. exchange��� B. change����� C. bill

Exercise 9

Work in pairs. Hash out with your partner some interesting shopping feel. Use at to the lowest degree five expressions from the list beneath.

To autumn into silence, to be sure, to be sick of throwing away something, to feel 1's cheeks flush, on one's hands and knees, to dust one's teeth together, to await behind, a favourite maxim, from fourth dimension to time, to scream out from the front end embrace, foods one can go into, afterwards all, eye to eye, to requite a blank look, to hand somebody something, assuming letters, to fire questions, a soap opera, ups and downs, to sum upward, to carry on with the story, to have the right coin, a sense of relief, to be abroad from, to feel out of place, to feel better in the fresh air, to come circular unexpectedly, to torn upwardly, to catch one's centre.

Do x

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

i. The girl thought that glass bottles of milk would be also heavy to carry and changed them ... plastic packets.

2. Ane can tell a good customer ... the way he or she chooses appurtenances.

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

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

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

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

seven. If i has got not more than 3 items, he or she can go ... a quick till.

8. When the queue is likewise long ane can do nothing only dust his or her teeth ... and wait dutifully.

9. The most annoying matter well-nigh shopping is continuing ... the till and watching how slowly people pay.

Exercise 11

Express the same idea using different diction and grammer.

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

ii.������������ Jean felt her patience beginning to itch.

3.������������ There was nothing else for it � she'd only have to wait.

iv.������������ She was sick of throwing away half-used bottles.

5.������������ Jean looked behind and saw that she was hemmed in past ����������� iii large trollies.

half dozen.������������ She was addressing a human who had been poised and waiting to write out a cheque for a few moments.

7.������������ Jean looked again at her handbasket and began to feel 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 up the cookery book and felt the frustration of indecision.

10. She peeled off three ten pound notes and handed them to the cashier.

11. She had the right coin, it merely meant sorting her change out.

12. She had an inclination that the people behind her were condign impatient.

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

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

Exercise 12

Find the flake starting with the following words and explain why Jean was feeling that fashion

'Jean looked up chop-chop and ...'

'She gritted her teeth together ...'

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

'It was all such a operation.'

'She all of a sudden felt much improve in the fresh air.'

Exercise 13

Speak virtually Jean's visit to the supermarket:

1. in the tertiary person;

ii. in the person of Jean herself;

3. in the person of the blonde woman;

iv. in the person of the cashier.

Exercise 14

Discussion points.

ane. What tin can y'all say well-nigh Jean as a person? Try to derive information from the pocket-sized details of her behaviour.

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

3. What tin you say nearly the 2 women?

iv. Do you agree that one can always tell a person by their shopping?

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

Exercise 15

I. Imagine that your mother gives you a shopping list, which you see below. Recollect in what shops you tin purchase these things and put the names of items in the graphs of the nautical chart.

a loaf of brownish breadstuff ���������������������������������������� 1 kg of pork

1 large cod ����������������������������������������������������������� a canteen of vinegar

ane kg of pork ��������������������������������������������������������� two medium-sized herrings

3 lemons �������������������������������������������������������������� a can of sardines in oil

0.iii kg of ham ������������������������������������������������������� 2 kg of potatoes

1 small cabbage ���������������������������������� a large chicken

a can of condensed milk ��������������������� biscuits

a bunch of radishes ������������������������������������������� a bag ofnour

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

0.5 kg of cheese����������������������������������� 0.2 kg of butter

dairy store

butcher's

bakery'due south

fishmonger's

grocer's

greengrocer'due south

II. Sum upward what you accept written and say what and where yous can buy.

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

Exercise 16

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

1.������������ a bottle of����������������������������� A. jam

ii.������������ a packet of���������������������������� B. parsley

three.������������ a dmm of������������������������������� C. toothpaste

iv.������������ a cake of������������������������������� D. cleanser

5.������������ a carton of���������������������������� Eastward. juice

vi.������������ a jar of������������������� F. chocolates

7.������������ a can of������������������� 1000. eggs

8.������������ a tube of������������������������������� H. honey

ix.������������ a bunch of���������������������������� I. sugar

10. a box of��������������������������� J. soap

11. a tub of��������������������������� K. luncheon meat

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

Exercise 17

I. Wait through the listing of products and say which of them are sold in Russia:

1) past the kilo,

ii) by quantity,

3) past tens.

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

II. Look through the list of products and say which of them are soldin Great Great britain:

1) by lbs*

two) by quantity

3) by dozens.

* lb � abbreviation from the Latin word "libra" � �����, in speech it is pronounced "pound". Due east.g. three lbs � iii pounds.

Cheese, lemons, grapes, white staff of life, ham, mangoes, eggs, potatoes, chickens.

Iii. Say which products from the listing beneath are priced:

1) 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 be sold equally preprepared, frozen, dried, tinned.

pre-prepared

frozen

stale

tinned

garlics

steaks

fish fillet potatoes tomatoes

cherries onions turkey

breadstuff spaghetti

bananas fish

meat

ham

plums

flour

pork peaches lettuce

tuna

Exercise 19

Read the text and reconstruct the family unit state of affairs. Tell the story to your classmates.

Exercise xx

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 phone call in Russia "Olivier salad";

3) An apple pie.

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

Two. Say what and how much you buy to cook your favourite dish.

3. Guess what a housewife was going to cook if her shopping list included:

1. ii lbs beef; 1 lb pork; white bread; eggs; 1/2 lb onions, one bottle milk.

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

1/2 Ib sugar.

iii. 1/2 lb rice; 1 lb smoked fish; i lb onions; 1/2 dbz eggs; i jar mayonnaise.

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

5. 2 lbs pork; one bag potatoes; 1 lb carrots; 1 caput cabbage; 1/2 lbs onions; ane bunch celery; 1 bunch parsley; one pack laurel leaves.

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

Practice 21

Standing in a queue at the check-out is a wearisome concern. Some people invent games to make the time laissez passer quicker. One of them comes to guessing what people'south lifestyles are likely to exist judging by 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 tin tell a stranger a lot about one'south personality, so tin the fruits of one's shopping trek.

Yesterday I observed a beautiful young lady. While her petty girl begged unsuccessfully for a bun, she was carefully choosing a shampoo, pilus conditioner and bath perfume. And so she picked upward a couple of cinema magazines and went to the check-out.

I looked down into her trolley and shuddered: iii gallons of milk, 3 loaves of breadstuff, four chickens, a mountain of baby-food jars, cakes and pies.

I especially like to observe male shoppers. I don't mean househusbands dutifiilly checking items off a listing. I adopt 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 check-out queue. Had I cut in front of her? She was glaring into my basket. I apace surveyed my selections to run across what could be generating such hostility. Let'southward see: 2 bottles of champagne, a lovely avocado, a pound of shrimp, and a quart of purified h2o.

Two. Fancy what one can see in a shopping handbasket of:

one) a practiced housewife;

2) a divorced man;

3)������������ a woman on a diet;

iv)������������ a hearty eater;

5)������������ someone expecting guests.

3. Think of other games you can play in your caput to make the time pass when you lot are waiting in a queue.

Exercise 22

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

○ Dialogue 1

At the Grocery store

Grocer: Hello, Ann, how are y'all doing today?

Ann:���� Fine, cheers. How are you?

Grocer: I am okay, thank yous. What tin I get for yous, 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 minor-sized packet of mushroom soup and a piece of smoked bacon. Grocer Will this exercise? It'southward all we have at the moment, I'mafraid.

Ann:���� No, it'due south much as well fat. I wanted information technology leaner. I think I'd amend take some ham instead. How much is it?

Grocer: Eighty pence a pound.

Ann:��� Good. One-half a pound, delight. That'll be all. How much does information technology come to?

Grocer: V pounds thirty seven pence, delight.

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

Grocer: And hither is your change.

Ann:��� Thanks.

Grocer: Good-bye, Ann. Cheers. Come tomorrow, we'll accept a new stock.

○ Dialogue ii

��������������� At the Butcher's

Shop banana:���� Can I help yous, madam?

Mrs. Gi1bert:�������� I'd like a leg of lamb. Practise y'all sell it?

Shop assistant:���� Aye, we do, but I'yard afraid we've sold out at the moment. If you'd care to call in tomorrow.

Mrs. Gi1bert:�������� Cheers, I won't carp! I'll buy some pork instead.

Shop assistant:���� Oh, yes. Nosotros've got excellent choice today. What part would you similar to get � shoulder, leg or some other?

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

Shop assistant:���� Okay. It weighs four pounds.

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

Shop assistant:���� Boiling or frying?

Mrs. Gilbert:��������� Boiling, please.

Store assistant:���� Will this do?

Mrs. Gilbert:��������� Squeamish. That will be all. How much is it?

Shop assistant:���� Iii pounds twenty pence.

Mrs.Gilbert:�� Here you are.

Store assistant: Your change, madam. Thank you. Take a nice solar day.

○ Dialogue 3

At the Greengrocer'due south

Greengrocer:�������� Good forenoon, Mrs. Daisy. How are yous this morn?

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

Greengrocer:�������� I'm having a footling trouble. Some of my supplies aren't here all the same. So I don't take tomatoes and peppers.

Mrs. Daisy:��� Oh, that's a shame. Volition you take some later on?

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

Mrs. Daisy:��� Cheers. It's very kind of you. And now I'll accept a pocketbook of potatoes, a couple of beets and some carrots.

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

Mrs. Daisy:��� The peaches practice wait practiced. What do they price? Greengrocer: Peaches are quite cheap this time of the year. 30 pence a pound.

Mrs.Daisy:���� That'southward a real bargain. I'll take three pounds.

Greengrocer: Okay. Now, what else?

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

Greengrocer: That's four pounds seventy five pence. Here'due south your change from your five pound notation � xx five pence.

Mrs. Daisy:��� Thank you. Good-adieu.

Greengrocer: Good-goodbye, Mrs. Daisy. Cheers a lot.

II. Pick out from the iii dialogues sentences, which denote the shop administration'

a) greeting their customers,

b) offer goods,

c) telling the cost of goods.

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

a) greeting store assistants,

b) telling what they need,

c) asking about the cost.

Iv. Brand upwards your own dialogues and enact them in form.

Exercise 23

Translate into English.

1. �������� �������� � ������������ ����� ������: ��� ������� ����� ������� ������������.

2. ������������ ��������� ����� �������, ����� ���������� ��������� ���� �������� ���������� ����� � ������ ������� ����������� ���������.

3. � ������������� �������������� ���� �� ������ ����������� ����� ��������� �, ��� �������, � ����� ����� ����� 99.

4. ����� � ����� ����� ���� ��� ��������: ������, ��������, �������, ������, � ����� ������� � ��������.

v. � ������� �� ��������� ������ ���������, ����� ��������� ���� � �������, �� ������ ��������, � ����� �������� � �����.

vi. ����� �� � �������� �������� � �����������, � ���� �������, � ��� � �������. � ��� ������ �����: � ������� ������ ��, ��� ��� �����; � ��� � ��, ��� ������� ���������.

7. ����������� �������� ������� ���������������� ���������������� � ������������, ���� ����� ������ ������.

eight. � ������� �� ���� ����� � ������� ������, � �������� �����, ���� ����������� ��������� ����������.

9. ����� �� �������� �������� �� ��������� ����: ��� ����� ���� ����������.

ten. ��� ����� � ������ ��������. �� ������ �������� ���� � �� ��: ������� �����, ������� ���, ���� ����������� ��������� � ���� ����� ������ ���������.

11. ����� ���� ������, � ������� ���-������ ��������� � ������� ����� ����, ������, ����� �����, ������� �������, ������� ���������� ������, ����� ���������� ���������. ����� ��������� ���.

12. ������ ����� � �� ����� ������ � �������, ������� �������� ������ ����� ��������-�����.

thirteen. ��� ���� � �����, ��� ����� ���������, ��� ������ ������ ������, � ����� ����� � �������� � ��������� ����������.

14. ������ ������ �� �������� ��������� � ��������� �� ���, ��� ���������� ���������� �������� �� ����� ���������.

15. ������� ��������� ����� ��������, ������ ��� � ���� ���� ����� �������.

Exercise 24

In five minutes write what you buy often and seldom. Compare what you lot have written with the lists of other students. Discuss the results and try to classify your classmates by putting them in sure categories of shoppers. Y'all tin requite the names to these categories yourselves.

► Patterns: 1) I ofttimes buy breadstuff, ...���� I seldom purchase caviar, ... 2) In my opinion, Kate is a careless shopper, because ...

Exercise 25

Piece of work in groups. Each grouping should make up a list of products which people usually buy at the historic period of ten. 15, xxx, fifty, 70. Compare your lists and discuss them agreeing, calculation details or criticizing.

► Use:

I completely agree that.. ���� I'thousand not certain that...

At that place is no dubiousness that... ��� I really doubt that...

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

Who would fence that... ��� I don't recall that...

Exercise 26

Discuss the following points in form.

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

2. Where are the best shops for food in your metropolis or town?

3. Speak well-nigh foodstuffs sold in your shops. Say whether they are shipped in or grown locally; say which are expensive and inexpensive; say what foodstuffs which you might have seen in the shops abroad are not sold in this country.

iv. Practice they sell foodstuffs under the counter nowadays? What kind of goods can those be?

5. Exercise y'all pay attending to the brand proper noun when you buy food? If not, how do you make your choice?

6. What is your personal style of shopping for food? Do you lot purchase at one time or do you accept your fourth dimension to look around for lower prices?

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

Practice 27

Match the English idioms in the left columnn with their Russian equivalents in the right cavalcade.

1.������������ to put a hole in one's handbag�������������������� �. ����� �����

2.������������ to go to pot�������������������������������������������������������������������������� �. ����� � ���

iii.������������ to go for a song��������������������������������������������������� �. �� �� ����� ������

iv.������������ at all costs���������������������������������������������������������������������������� D. �������� � ��������

v.������������ to jack up the price������������������������������������������������������������� �. �������� � �����

half dozen.������������ to overflowing the market�������������������������������������������������������������� F. ����� �� ��������

7.������������ to feather one's nest������������������������������������������� One thousand. ���� �� �� �������

8.������������ not for love or coin����������������������������������������� �. ������� ����������

9.������������ to toll a pretty penny���������������������������������������� I. ������� ����

ten. to pay through the olfactory organ���������������������������������������������� J. ��������� �����

11. to get something off i's hands������������������������������� �. ������ ����

Practise 28

Highlight the meanings of the English proverbs and brand up situations to illustrate them.

1. Forbidden fruit is sweet.

2. Tastes differ.

3. Dear is sweet but the bee stings.

4. Take information technology or exit it.

Exercise 29

Translate the following quotations into Russian and comment upon them.

'The public buys its opinions as 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 so it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.'

Samuel Butler

'Creditors take ameliorate memories than debtors.'

Benjamin Franklin

'Necessity never made a good bargain.'

Benjamin Franklin

'England is a nation of shopkeepers.'

Napoleon I

'If a continental greengrocer asks fourteen schillings (or crowns, or franks..., or whatever you like) for a agglomeration of radishes, and his customer offers ii, and finally they strike a bargain like-minded on 6 schillings, francs, roubles, etc., this is only the low continental addiction of bargaining.'

George Mikes

Exercise 30

Office Play "Organising a Party".

Setting:� ��1) A academy refectory, where the students distribute duties to make purchases.

two) A supermarket.

Situation: You determine to celebrate some vacation or just organise a party at someone'southward dwelling. Everyone will accept to bring something for the table and after you'll cook together. Enact buying things in a shop. Elaborate the situation yourselves. Fancy that you've left money at home or there are no goods you need on sale or you forget something at the final instant.

Characters:

Card I����� � Molly, the daughter, who is going to organise information technology all. She decides who should buy things and says what you will need them for.

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

Bill of fare 3�IV � Bob and Rob, boys who will purchase heavy things in the shop.

CardV-10� - Nelly, Kelly, Dolly, Polly, Lilly, Tilly, tree pairs of students who walk around the supermarket and talk over what they have to buy.

Card Xi���� � Penny, the cashier at the till.

WRITING

Exercise 1

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

Do 2

Translate into English in writing.

A.

�� ������ �������� � ����� ����� �����. �� ��� ������ � ���� ���������! �� ���� ������ � ������� � ������ � �������� � ����������� ������� � ����� �������, ������� ����� �� ����� �� ���������� �����, ���� �� �� ��� ��� ��


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