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5. Projects: making a word grid, discussing what to buy, giving information about shops in Kazan, having an interview “Is it difficult to be a department store owner?”, writing essays: an ideal shop, a shop of the 22nd century, how to dress in a good style, the best shops in our city.

Text A Shops and shopping in Britain.

Read the text and answer the following questions:

Why are the high streets of Britain beginning to look more and more the same?
What is a corner shop?
What famous British department stores do you know?
What do street markets specialize in?
Why do people from the surrounding villages come to market towns?
Why are many high street and corner shops closing?
What can you find in a British shopping complex?

In the centre of most towns and villages there is a main street with lots of different shops. This street is usually called the High Street. The high streets of Britain are beginning to look more and more the same. This is because they are full of branches of big chain-stores.

One of the best-known chain-stores is Marks& Spencer, which cells clothes and food. The company has over 700 stores world-wide and has a reputation for good quality. If you buy something that you decide you don’t like, you can take it back and get your money back.

The corner shop. Eighty-seven per cent of British people live less than a mile from their local corner shop. A corner shop is a small shop on, or near, a street corner. Many are run by Indian or Pakistani families. Most corner shops sell food and newspapers. They are open until late in the evening, as well as on Sundays.

Department stores. Department stores are found in all big cities. They are big shops where you can find almost everything you want and which offer a wide choice of things. The most famous British department store, Harrods, started as a small grocery shop in 1849. The present store has more than 300 departments and a staff over 4000 people. Prices are not always as high as you may well expect. The spectacular food hall, decorated with Edwardian tiles, has splendid display of fish, cheese, fruit and vegetables; other specialities include fashions for all ages, china and glass, electronics and kitchenware.

Though Harrods is still just as popular, especially with well-heeled visitors, Londoners often head instead for nearby Harvey Nichols, which aims to stock the best of everything with the price tags to match. Clothes are particular strong, with the emphasis firmly on very high fashion, with many talented British, European and American names represented. There is also an impressive menswear section. The food hall, opened in 1992, is one of the most stylish in London.

Selfridge’s vast building on Oxford Street houses everything from Gucci bags and Hermes scarves to household gadgets and bed-linen. Miss Selfridge, the popular high street fashion chain, also has a branch in the store.

The original John Lewis was a draper and his shop still has a gorgeous selection of fabrics and haberdashery. It’s china, glass and household items make John Lewis, and it’s well-known Sloan Square partner, Peter Johns, equally popular with Londoners.

Liberty, the last privately owned department store in London, still sells the hand-blocked silks and other oriental goods it was famed for when it opened in 1875. Look out for the famous scarf department.

Fortnum and Mason’s ground floor provisions department is so engrossing that the upper floors of classic fashion remain peaceful. The food section stocks everything from baked beans to the beautifully prepared hampers.

Street markets. Street markets are both cheep and fun. Most markets sell fruits and vegetables, clothes, things for the house, records and jewellery. In London, there are about 40 or 50 markets. Some specialize in flowers, pets or second-hand books.

Camden Lock Market has grown swiftly since its opening in 1974. Handmade crafts, new and second-hand street fashions, wholefoods, books, records and antiques from the bulk of the goods that are on sale, although thousands of young people come here simply for the atmosphere, especially at weekends. This is enhanced by the buskers and street performers who draw the crowds to the attractive cobbled area around the canal.

Some towns are called market towns: a market is held there, usually once a week. People come from the surrounding villages to do their shopping.

Out-of-town shopping. Many small high streets and corner shops are closing because people prefer to drive to a shopping complex outside town. There they can park their cars without any problems and do all their shopping in one place. In a British shopping complex, you usually find a supermarket, a branch of the most of the chain-stores, some smaller shops, a few cafes and sometimes a multi-screen cinema. Most of the new shopping complexes are built near big roads, outside town. Here you can also find “superstores”. These enormous shops sell their products more cheaply than in the high-street shops. Many of the superstores are branches of chain-stores from countries outside Britain, such as Ikea and Aldi.

Notes.

high street Главная улица(название главной улицы во многих городах)

chain-stores однотипные розничные магазины одной фирмы

to run руководить, управлять

corner shop угловой магазин

grocery shop продовольственный магазин

spectacular захватывающий

Edwardian архитект. эдвардианский

tile черепица, кафель, плитка

china фарфор

glass стеклянная посуда

kitchenware кухонная посуда

well-heeled visitors богатые(обеспеченные) посетители

to head for (a shop) направляться в(магазин)

vast building огромное здание

household gadgets бытовая техника

haberdashery галантерейные товары

engrossing (department) поглощающий все внимание и время

hamper корзина с едой, лакомствами

Make up your own sentences using the following words:

department store, staff, price, street markets, shopping complex.

Use the information from the text in the following situation:

Imagine that you are in London. Which shops and markets would you like to go to?

True or false?

One of the best-known chain-stores Marks &Spencer sells food and newspapers.
In a British corner shop you usually find a supermarket, a branch of most of the chain-stores, some smaller shops, a few cafés and sometimes a multi-screen cinema.
The most famous British department stores are Harrods, Harvey Nichols, Selfridge, John Lewis, Liberty and Fortnum and Mason.
Fortnum and Mason started as a small grocery shop in 1849.
John Lewis has a gorgeous selection of fabrics and haberdashery.
Street markets are very popular, especially with well-heeled visitors.
Most of the shopping complexes are closing because people prefer to drive to small high street and corner shops.
“Superstores” are enormous shops which sell their products more cheaply than in the high-street shops.

Text B Shops in Russia.

Read the text and answer the following questions:

What specialized shops were mentioned in the text?
What factors can explain the popularity of supermarkets?
How do people pay for their shopping?

Small shops which are still numerous in our towns generally deal only in certain goods. They may be called specialized (or specialist) shops. At the grocer’s you can buy a variety of food stuffs, such as flour, butter, eggs, biscuits, jam and jellies, cheese, sugar, spice, tinned and frozen foods. The greengrocer’s deals in fruit and vegetables. If you go to the fruiterer’s, you can buy there various kinds of fruit, but not vegetables. The florist’s sells flowers and plants, wreaths and bouquets. We go to the fishmonger’s for fish, and to the poulterer’s if we want to buy poultry- chickens, ducks, geese or turkeys. A milkshop is called a dairy. There we buy dairy produce- milk, butter, cheese, cream and eggs. When we run out of bread we go to the baker’s and ask for a loaf of white or brown bread. A cake shop sells pastries and cakes of all kinds. The confectioner’s always has a good choice of sweets- chocolates, bars of chocolate, toffees and other tempting things that make every child’s mouth water.

In our towns there are shopping centres which have several departments to sell various food stuffs under one roof; there you can see the bakery department, the grocery department, the confectionery department, etc.

And of course we must mention supermarkets which have become so popular with customers in our big towns and cities. These spacious supermarkets are well-stocked with a lot of beautifully arranged goods. There you can buy practically all you need in the way of foods- groceries, meat, vegetables, fruit, dairy products, bread and cakes, baby foods, and many other things. The goods are ready-packed and have clearly-marked prices on them; they are displayed on shelves, in reach-in refrigerator units or in trolleys and are always within easy reach for the customers. Many factors can explain the popularity of such shops: first of all they have an excellent assortment of goods; secondly, you have an opportunity to choose the goods you like- they are displayed openly for you to choose from; then the service is swift there; and, which is of great importance, you save a lot of your precious time if you buy everything in one shop, under one roof.

If we want to buy things, we can go either to specialized shops or large department stores. For example, we buy cloth at a draper’s and ready-made clothes at a dress shop, a man’s outfitter’s or a department store. The tailor’s and the dress-maker’s make clothes made to measure for men and women. The hosier’s sells hosiery or knitted goods like stockings, socks and underclothes.

Those who need paper, pens, ink, rubbers, rulers, notebooks, exercise-books, clips, drawing-pins and glue can get them at the stationer’s. The bookseller’s sells books and magazines. The jeweller’s sells jewellery, and also things of gold and silver. The china shop has a large stock of china, porcelain and kitchenware. A chemist’s sells many things besides medicines- perfume, toilet articles such as soap, toothpaste, sponges and toothbrushes.

Nowadays we can buy a lot of things either for cash or hire-purchase, that is the customer pays the deposit (or a down payment) on the goods and pays off the balance in installments. Payment may be spread over a period of up to two years. This hire-purchase system helps people to buy such expensive things as refrigerators, TV sets, washing machines, sewing and knitting machines, sets of furniture, and many other things.

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