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Ex. 6.Name 5-10 products you might buy at …

1) a grocery, 2) a sweet-shop, 3) a butcher’s, 4) a fruiterer’s, 5) a greengrocer’s, 6) a fishmonger’s, 7) an off-license shop, 8) a baker’s.

Ex. 7. What do we call:

1) a very large self-service shop which deals with foods and household goods; 2) a shop, which sells liqueurs, spirits and wine; 3) a long flat-topped bench in a shop over which business is conducted with customers; 4) a weighing instrument; 5) a wire-basket on wheels used in shops for transporting customers’ purchases; 6) a tin container in which food or drink is hermetically sealed; 7) set of twelve; 8) the space in the supermarket where goods on sale are displayed; 9) a machine in shops with a drawer for money, recording the amount of each sale; 10) a sheltered area surrounded with shops and other buildings closed for vehicular traffic. [vihikjul] – перевозочный, передаточный.

Ex. 8. Fill in prepositions or adverbs:

1. – Does the green grocer deal … fruit and vegetables?

• To be more exact, he sells vegetables; and … fruit we go … the fruiterer who usually has a good assortment … different kinds … fruit.

• Could I buy cherries there?

• I think they should be … sale now, they are in season.

2) Oh, we’ve run … … sugar. 3) You may pay … the cash-desk. 4) Ask … bottle … milk. 5) A wide variety … food products that save preparation time is available, and dozens … new convenience foods appear … the market each year. 6) … most of us food is partly a luxury and partly a necessity. We could survive … a diet … enriched bread, margarine, nonfat dry milk, potatoes, and cooked dry beans. 7) In order to get good value … the money we spend … food, we have to make a two-step attack … the problem. First, we will have to plan menus wisely, including items that are good sources … nutrients … a reasonable cost. Second, we will have to shop wisely … the items we need to make … the menus we have planned. 8) We’ve run short … salt. 9) We’re well stocked … the nearest future. 10) Tomorrow we’re going … the supermarket. We’ve got to stock … our holiday trip.

Shopping (At the Supermarket)

People buy foodstuffs at the food stores, at the markets and supermarkets. It is more convenient to do shopping at the supermarket: you can find there everything you need. More and more people nowadays prefer to provide themselves with foodstuffs for a long period. As they buy in quantities, they go to the supermarket by car and after having done shopping they load their bags and packets into the luggage compartment.

Let us visit one of the supermarkets in the city. It is a one-storeyed building, spacious and light, with large shop windows. Inside we can see some signs: Dairy produce, Dry groceries, Vegetables and Fruit, Meat and Fowl, Fish, Bakery Goods, Confectionery and Pastry, Wine.

The Dairy produce counter is well stocked with fresh milk foodstuffs. What is there for sale? Butter, cheese, curds, cream, sour cream, milk, fruit joghurt, eggs, margarine, mayonnaise.

Everything is sold ready packed. Next to this is the bakery counter where everybody can choose whatever he or she likes: white and brown bread, buns, rolls, rings, rusks, pies, cheese cakes and so on.

In the dry groceries counter there is also a great choice of produce. You can buy flour, groats, spice, tea, sugar (lump, cube, granulated) there. Besides, customers can find there various packets filled with dry soup, noodles or chips. They are easy to cook within three minutes, that is why they are called instant.

The meat and fowl counter looks very attractive too. Chicken, ham, pork, bacon, beef, veal and mutton are at your disposal there. You will find a variety of sausages in this section too. A special counter handles frozen and fresh fish: smoked and dry fish is also offered to the customers. Besides, the counter is full of sea products, quite exotic and unseen before. There are crabs, shrimps, crawfish, lobsters, oysters. A large space is occupied with tinned fish.

The section where fruit and vegetables are for Sale is called a greengrocery. It always attracts a lot of customers because irrespective of the season the counters are full of fresh fruit and vegetables grown in Russia or brought from other countries. Apples and pears, oranges, lemons and tangerines, apricots and peaches, bananas and grapes are practically available all the year round. For those who like berries there are strawberries, raspberries, cherries, cranberries and red bilberries nicely packed in small baskets. If you want to buy vegetables, you will find everything you need: potatoes, carrots, cucumbers, tomatoes, cabbage, beetroot, onion, garlic. When doing shopping at the supermarket don’t forget to look at the expiry date printed on the packet. You are recommended to use the foodstuffs before it.

Choosing products customers put them into a special basket and with the basket full go to the cashier. The cashier calls the price and gives them a check.

Visiting a supermarket you considerably save your time.

Words and expressions

Ex. 9. Answer the questions:

1. What is the most popular supermarket in your district? What counters look attractive there? 2. How often do you visit the supermarket? Do you buy in quantities? Do you go there by car? 3. Do you always look at the expiry date when buying diary or meat foodstuffs? 4. What produce do you buy if you want to cook a holiday dinner? 5. Do you like exotic foodstuffs? Which of them did you have to buy? 6. Is the price for foodstuffs at the supermarket higher than that in small shops or in the markets? 7. How much do you spend for foodstuffs a week? Can you afford to buy in quantities?

Remember!

We buy:

bread at a bakery (at a baker’s), vegetable and fruit at a greengrocery (at a greengrocer’s), flour and groats at a grocery (at a grocer’s), meat at a butcher’s, fish at a fishmongery (at a fishmonger’s), butter and milk at a dairy.

Ex. 10. Name as many things as possible that you can buy:

at the dairy, at the bakery, at the fishmongery, at the grocery, at the greengrocery, at the butcher’s.

Use the model:

At the … one can buy … . or The following things are for sale at the … .

Ex. 11. Say to what counter of the supermarket you go if you want to buy:

granulated sugar, tea, and spice; cheese, sour cream, and butter; chicken, turkey, and frankfurters; trout, shrimps, and caviare; a pastry, a bun, and a cake; a bottle of brandy, a tin of beer, and a bottle of champagne; veal, ham, and beef; eggs, margarine, and mayonnaise; herring, tinned fish, and cod.

Use the model:

If I need …, I go to the … .

Remember!

We buy foodstuffs: in packets, in jars, in tins, in bottles

or customers may have products weighed.

At the Supermarket

• Let’s go to the meat counter.

• Ok, I think we need some veal, ham and a chicken.

• … and a turkey. Don’t forget about the Christmas holiday.

• We also need half a pound of butter, a packet of sour cream and a dozen of eggs. Dairy products are in aisle 3.

• How about fruit and vegetables? There are no apples in our fridge and not many vegetables. Let’s find this counter.

• Oh, fruit is in aisle 8, and vegetables are next to this.

• I wonder what apples and tangerines cost now.

• They are cheap because it’s the height of the season.

• We’ll take three pounds of apples and two pounds of tangerines. And I want to buy half a pound of berries… strawberries or bilberries. I’m going to make a pie.

• That’s all right. And now let’s go to the wine counter and choose good drinks. Oh, look here, we need two bottles of champagne, a bottle of brandy and martini,… and orange juice for the children… and maybe some tins of beer?

• Ok. Our cart is full. Let’s go to the cash register.

a turkey [t:ki] – индейка

a dozen [dzn] – дюжина

an aisle [ail] – проход, ряд (в универмаге)

a bilberry [[bilbri] – черника

a cart [ka:t] – тележка

Ex. 12. Enumerate all foodstuffs that the two customers intend to buy at the supermarket and in what quantity.

Ex. 13. Act out the dialoque.

Ex. 14. Make up dialogues according to the model:

Shop-assistant: What can I do for you?

Customer: I want a cheese cake, a loaf of brown bread, a box of biscuits…

Shop-assistant: Anything else?

Customer: No, thank you. How much is it?

Shop-assistant: Ten roubles.

Customer: Here you are.

Shop-assistant: Here is your change. Thank you.

You are buying: a bottle of oil, a packet of sour cream, ten eggs; a kilo of pears, a kilo and a half of cucumbers, half a kilo of plums; a packet of frankfurters, a chicken, half a kilo of ham; a tin of soft caviare, half a kilo of salmon, two tins of salted sprats; some spice and seasoning; a jar of horse radish, a packet of pepper, a bottle of vinegar.

Ex. 15. You are going to make a cake for the tea party. Enumerate all food ingredients and the quantity of each that are necessary to do this.

Ex. 16. Write a recipe of your favourite fruit and vegetable salad.

Ex. 17. Translate into English:

1) Мне нужно полфунта сухарей. Сколько они стоят? 2) Я куплю баранину, если она не очень жирная, немного ветчины и сосисок. 3) В рыбном отделе можно купить свежую и замороженную рыбу; там также продается икра и рыбные консервы. 4) – Где можно купить специи? – В том же отделе, где продается мука и крупа. 5) У вас есть в продаже сметана и творог? Когда истекает их срок хранения? 6) Цены на овощи в этом магазине вполне приемлемые, а вот фрукты стоят дорого. 7) Дайте мне, пожалуйста, полкило копченой рыбы, килограмм свежей трески и баночку красной икры. 8) По дороге домой мне нужно зайти в универсам и купить пачку индийского чая, растворимый кофе и буханку белого и черного хлеба. 9) В этом магазине большой выбор сухих вин Молдовы и Болгарии. 10) В этом универмаге продаются экзотические фрукты и овощи. Вы найдете их в шестом ряду.