11. Role-play the dialogues:

1) Mrs. Claydon: I’m looking for strawberries. Have you got any?

Assistant: Yes, I have how many would you like?

Mrs. C.: I want two pounds, please.

A.: Here you are.

Mrs. C.: Thank you.

Diana: Hi, Mary. What are you buying?

Mrs. C.: I’m buying some strawberries for tea.

A.: Do you need anything else?

Mrs. C.: Yes, I’d like a loaf of bread, a dozen eggs, a tin of onion soup, a box of cereal, a bottle of milk, a jar of honey, a brunch of grapes, a tube of mustard and a bar of chocolate. How much is that?

A.: ₤6.42.

Mrs. C.: Thanks a lot.

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2) Assistant: Can I help you?

Customer: Yes, please. I would like to have something from this shop ping list.

A.: Oh, your shopping list is very big. We stock only three tams you ask for: butter, milk and cheese.

C.: 2 packets of butter, a pound of cheese and three bottles of milk, please.

A.: Here they are. Pay by cheque at the cash desk.

C.: Excuse me, do you happen to know where I could find some ham, tinned meat and beef sausages?

A.: They are all sold at the butcher’s.

C.: And I wonder if you stock any cigarettes here?

A.: I’m afraid we don’t. You should try the shop next door for the cigarettes.

12. Read and match:

1) a pound of … ; 2) a bottle of … ; 3) a box of … ; 4) a bar of … ; 5) a jar of … ; 6) a loaf of … ; 7) a dozen of … ; 8) a bunch of … .

a) bread; b) honey; c) chocolate; d) cheese; e) lemonade; f) eggs; g) cereal; h) grapes.

13. What does British money look like? Read the information.

There are four banknotes and seven coins.

Banknotes are of different sizes and colours. ₤50 notes are brown, ₤20 notes are purple, ₤10 notes are brown and ₤5 notes are blue. There are ₤1.50p, 50p, 10p. 5p, 2p and 1p coins. Both the 50p and 20p coins are silver and seven-sided. The 50p coin is large and the 20p is much smaller. All the other coins are round.

14. Read and translate the text. Shopping in Britain:

British shops open at 9.00 a.m. and they close at 5.30 or 6.00 p.m. British shops don’t close for lunch. Most shops are closed on Saturday.

On one or two days a week – usually on Thursday or/and Friday some large shops are open until about 8.00 p.m. for late night shopping.

Most British families don’t buy their milk or newspapers from a shop, a milkman and a paperboy or a papergirl bring (deliver) them.

MARK AND SPENCER is a large clothes and food supermarket.

BOOTS is another large shop that sells records, radio and hi-fi (video, YV sets) and is also a chemist’s.

HARRODS is a department store. It is a tourist attraction in London, like Buckingham Palace or the Tower in London. There can be about 50 000 customers a day. It opened in 1849. HARRODS service rich people. It has 230 departments, among them 16 food halls and 34 for fashion, a library, a bank, a kennel for customers’ dogs.

SELFRIDGE’S is a big department store in Oxford street London. It looks like a palace.

SMITH is a national chain of shops which sell newspapers and magazines. SMITH’S also sells books, records, stationary, pens.