2 Make up 5 questions to interview your neighbor about his/her hobbies.

Unit 4 Shopping

1 Listen to the following dialogues and read them in pairs.

Dialogue 1

Shopkeeper Hello, can I help you?

Customer Yes, I want one liter of milk, a loaf of bread, ten eggs and some cheese.

Shopkeeper What kind of cheese do you want?

Customer Cottage cheese; that one on the right.

Shopkeeper OK, anything else?

Customer Also, I want a kilo of tomatoes and a bunch of green onions.

Shopkeeper That makes 120 rubles. How do you wish to pay? by cash or card?

Customer By card.

Shopkeeper Thank you! Take your receipt.

Dialogue 2

Alfiya So, what shall we buy?

Diana I want a blue shirt to match my jeans and a new purse; mine is too old.

Alfiya OK, and I’d like to buy a pair of dress shoes, something not

very expensive.

Diana Oh, look! Here’s a nice pair and they are really cheap! Do

you like them?

Alfiya Let me try them on. Yes, indeed, they fit me perfectly! But I

don’t like the color.

Diana Do you want them in black? Try these!

Alfiya Yes, they are a nice match for my black dress.

Vocabulary

boots	сапоги
bunch	пучок, букет
cash	наличные деньги
clothes [kləuðz]	одежда
cottage cheese	творог
currency ['krənsi]	валюта
customer ['kstəmə]	клиент, покупатель, потребитель
dress	платье, одеваться
grocery ['grəusəri]	продуктовый магазин
hat	шляпа, шапка
jeans	джинсы
loaf	буханка
mall [mo:l]	торговый комплекс
purse [pə:s]	дамская сумочка, кошелек
receipt [ri'si:t]	кассовый чек
shirt	рубашка, кофточка, блузка
shoes	туфли
shop	магазин
shopping center	торговый центр
skirt	юбка
store	магазин
sum [sm]	сумма
supermarket	супермаркет
to buy – bought – bought	покупать
to fit	подходить (по размеру), сидеть (об одежде)
to match	подходить (по цвету), сочетаться
to pay – paid – paid	платить
to sell – sold – sold	продавать
to try on	примерять
trousers (AmE pants) ['trauzəz]	брюки

Pronunciation

2 Listen and repeat.

[] shop, shoes, shirt, cash, shopping center

[ei] pay, paid

[u:] boots, shoes

[ə:] shirt, skirt, purse

3 Read the following words in transcription and write them in your notebooks.

[mol] [dʒi:ns] [ti:p] [klouz] [sto:]

[pænts] [dres] [louf] [u:z] [hæt]

Oral exercises

4 Practice the following sentences with the words given below. Listen and repeat the sentences until you can say them fluently.

a) shoes: I wanted shoes to match my dress.

a purse, jewelry, a hat

b) tomatoes: I’ll also take a kilo of tomatoes.

potatoes, carrots, cabbage, ball peppers

c) 120: That makes 120 rubles.

12; 338; 470; 600; 1,836

5 Cross out the odd word.

a) shirt, cake, pants, skirt, dress

b) onion, apple, pear, peach, orange

c) oatmeal, semolina, salt, buckwheat, millet

d) pen, notebook, shoe, clip, stapler

e) store, egg, shop, grocery, supermarket

6 Read and study the currency used in the USA and Great Britain.

US currency	British currency
$ - dollar = 100 cents $ 34 – thirty four dollars $ 57.40 – fifty-seven dollars forty cents	£ - pound (sterling) = 100 pence £ 12 – twelve pounds 0.80 p. – eighty pence (p)

7 Read the following sums of money.

$0.30, $3, $18.99, $30, $49.99, $55.50, 0.25 p., 0.99 p., £12, £29, £34.50, £100.

8 In pairs remember what currency the following countries use.

France – Germany –

Japan – Italy –

Poland – Canada –

China – Finland –

9 In groups of four/five think of as many names of goods that can be sold in the following stores as you can. Use the dictionary.

Book store:

Clothes store:

Bakery:

Butchers:

Liquor store:

Grocery store:

10 Who are the persons talking? Complete the following dialogue and read it in pairs.

- _______________?

- Yes, please, I need a brown skirt to _____ my shirt.

- Do you like this one?

- _____ , it is too dark, do you have anything lighter?

- Oh, yes, here is a light brown one.

- I _____ to try it on, where is the fitting room?

- In the center of the hall.

- It _____ me all right! How much is it?

- $ 50.

- Oh, that’s too _____ for me.

- We can give you a 15% (per cent) discount.

- Cool! __________!

11 Here is the price list of a grocery store. You have $ 20. You have to buy bread, napkins, one item of bakery, pasta and canned food. If you have any money left, take anything you like.

Bakery Wonder Italian Bread - $3.59 Arnold Brick Oven Bread - $2.50 Premium White Enriched Bread - $3.59 Arnold Hot Dog Buns - $3.19 Two Bite Brownies-Home-style - $3.85 Beverages Apple & Eve Apple Juice - $3.99 Country Time Lemonade - $1.55 Johnson's Gallon of Whole Milk - $3.35 A&W Root Beer - $1.99 Breakfast Food Cheerios Cereal - $4.59 Aunt Jemima Pancake & Waffle Mix - $5.15 Aunt Jemima Maple Syrup - $2.95 Cream of Wheat Instant Hot Cereal - $5.25 Canned Food Del Monte Fresh Cut Sliced Carrots - $1.15 Green Giant Green Beans - $1.29 ShopRite Golden Corn - $0.65 Idahoan Mashed Potatoes - $1.29

Pasta, Sauces, Grains Annie's Spaghetti - $2.19 Hunt's Spaghetti Sauce - Traditional - $1.39 Hamburger Helper Beef Pasta - $2.95 Minute White Rice - $2.55 Condiments & Sauces Skippy Creamy Peanut Butter - $2.55 Welch's Concord Grape Jelly - $2.29 Fluff Marshmellow Cream - $1.15 Heinz Hamburger Dill Chips - $1.29 Heinz Ketchup - $3.19 Ragu Pizza Quick Traditional Sauce - $2.05 Snacks Jolly Time White Popcorn - $1.79 Betty Crocker Fruit by the Foot - $3.85 Rold Gold Pretzel Twists - $3.19 Ritz Bits - Peanut Butter Crackers -$0.65 Paper & Plastic Glad Kitchen Bags - $3.05 Marcal Family Napkins - $3.85 Glad Cling Wrap - $4.09 Bounty Paper Towels - $2.95

Grammar

Past Simple (Прошедшее простое время)