Практичне заняття 1. Тема «Shop’s visiting»

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SHOPPING (1)

One day my friend Nick and I decided to go shopping. I took my salary and Nick took his father’s salary. Nick needed some new clothes badly.There are a lot of shops,supermarkets and department stores in the centre of the city, so we decided to go through some of them.

The first shop on our way was a large supermarket. We needed some groceries that’s why we went there.The choice of goods was very impressive.It seemed to us that on the counters and shelves there was everything one could want. We could see sausages of diff –erent kinds, fish, meat, poultry. At the bakery there was bread, rolls, buscuits. At the dairy department there was milk, cream, cheese, butter. Everything was nicely packed and when we came to the cashier our baskets were full of groceries.

Then we went to the department store which was right across the street. Nick and I are fond of computers and video and hi-fl equipment, so we couldn’t go past the electric appliances department (frankly speaking, it was the first department we saw). There were a lot of computers, video cassette recorders, TV sets, hi-fl centres and tape recorders. But we had everything we needed at home, so we just had a look at the latest models. But we needed some presents. It was my mother’s birthday in a few days and Nick’s father’s birthday in a week. I decided to buy a food processor and Nick chose an electric razor.

And then, at last, we found the men’s clothing department. There were a lot of suits, trousers, jackets, shirts and many other things. Nick needed a suit because he was going to the theatre with his girlfriend and her parents to see Pygmalion.As you probably remember, Nick is very tall and slim. So it is always difficult to find clothes that would suit him perfectly. The shop assistant asked Nick’s size and offered him a nice suit. But when Nick tried it on I couldn’t help laughing. The jacket was too big for him and the trousers were too short. He looked so funny! The shop assistant thought for a moment and then suggested that Nick should try on some jackets and some trousers separately. An hour later Nick looked like an English gentleman. The pin-striped jacket matched the black trousers perfectly.The shop assistant also showed Nick a wonderful tie and he immediately agreed to buy it.

We had to go home by taxi because our bags were so huge that we could hardly lift them We came home completely broke but happy.

Active Words and Word Combinations:

to go shopping – ходити магазинами

to go through - проминути

salary – заробіток, заробітня платня

on one’s way - по дорозі

to need badly - дуже потребувати

groceries - продукти

supermarket - універсам

department store - універмаг

Викладач ______________І.С. Коковіхіна

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Практичне заняття 1. Тема «Purchases»

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SHOPPING (2)

Shopping has common elements wherever it takes place. A buyer looks for a seller who is oftring something the buyer wants or needs at a price the buyer can afford to pay. Sellers often advertise their wares in newspapers, on the radio or TV,on posters etc. Sellers use a variety of tactics to induce buyers to purchase from them at a price which leaves some profit.

Shopping is a part of our daily life. And we have to deal with it whether we like it or not. There are people who hate going shopping. So they make a list of what they need and run through stores buying the needed things. Sometimes they even don’t care about the price. And there are people who go from store to store looking for goods of better quality and lower price. Those don’t worry about the time they spend shopping.

But there is a very good serice called Postal Market. It really helps you to save your time and get goods of high quality. You just have to look through a catalogue, choose the things you like, order them and wail a little to get them.

My usual shopping round

We go shopping every day. The other day my mother took me on a usual shopping round. We went to the grocer’s and greengrocer’s as we had to run out of sugar and onions.

At the greengrocer’s there was a long queue. But we had nothing to do but stand in the queue if we wanted to get to the counter and hare some onions. The shop-girl weighed us half a kilo of onions, we thanked her and went out.Then we made our way to the grocer’s where we bought a kilo of sugar and some sausage. We were about to go home as my mother suddenly remembered we had hardly any bread in the house. We dropped in at the baker’s and bought a loaf of brown bread, some rolls and buns. On our

way home my mother decided to call at commercial shop. She was looking for a present to my father - as it was his birthday soon.

As soon as we entered the shop, we found ourselves in a fantastic motley city of silk skirts and shirts, woolen pullovers, frocks and leather boots and shoes. The smiling girl met us at the counter. My mother said she wanted to buy a size 50 shirt of a dark— blue colour. The girl suggested looking at a dark—blue cotton shirt with short sleeves. The shirt was the latest fashion and we were sure the father would like it. We paid the money at the cash desk. The cashier gave us a receipt and with it we came up to the shop assistant. She passed us a wrapped parcel with the shirt, thanked us and added they were always glad to see us at their shop and we happy and a bit excited went out the shop.

Questions:

1. W hat is shopping?

2. How do sellers advertise their wares?

3. What do the sellers do to increase their profit?

4. Is there any service which helps to save time during shopping?

5. What kind of a service is it?

Викладач ______________І.С. Коковіхіна

І курс, ІI семестр