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Dialogue 1. “Shopping”

It’s eleven o’clock in the morning. Helen Petrova’s in one of the biggest department stores in the city which only opened a few weeks ago. Many things are bought and sold here every day. Though it’s still very early and the store has just opened, there are a lot of customers near the counters: some are buying things, others are just looking round.

Helen: Excuse me. How do I get to the shoe department?

Shop assistant: It’s over there on the left, please.

(In the shoe department)

Helen: I want a pair of boots, please.

Shop assistant: What’s your size?

Helen: Thirty-four, and I want very warm ones, too. It’s very cold outside.

Shop assistant: Oh yes, it’s terribly cold. Thirty-four… You have very small feet. It won’t be easy to find a suitable pair, I’m afraid.

(In a few minutes)

There are nice boots, don’t you think? Will you try them on? How do they feel?

Helen: I think a size too big. Perhaps you can find a different pair. Can you give me a size smaller?

Shop assistant: Just a moment. I’ll have another look. You are lucky. Here is a lovely pair; but it’s more expensive.

Helen: That’s doesn’t matter… It feels more comfortable. I think I’ll take it. How much is it?

Shop assistant: Three thousand roubles.

Helen: Where do I pay?

Shop assistant: Over there at the cash-desk.

Helen: Thank you.

(After paying the bill)

Shop assistant: Here are your boots. The check’s inside.

Helen: Thank you. And where’s the glove department?

Another customer: Come along with me, and I’ll show you.

Helen buys some dark-brown gloves to match her new boots and looks at her watch. She sees that it is rather late, so she quickly leaves the store and hurries home.

Dialogue 2. “Shopping”

Mother: Pete, we’ve run out of vegetables and we’ve hardly any bread in the house. You know, now it’s your turn to go to the greengrocer’s and to the baker’s.

Pete: Oh, bother! Why do we have to go shopping so often?

Mother: The day before yesterday it was Nelly who did all the shopping. She went to the grocer’s and to the butcher’s.

Pete: Did she? But, Mother, girls are so fond of shopping. Let Nelly do it today as well.

Mother: Oh, you’ve been a lazy-bones ever since you were born! It’s so difficult to make you go anywhere.

Pete: D’you want to make me a model boy, Mum?

Mother: I’d like to. Take that bag and don’t grumble. Buy a cabbage, a pound of onions, half a pound of carrots and a loaf of bread. Here is the money and don’t forget the change.

Pete: Did I ever forget it?

Mother: I don’t say you did. But you are so absent-minded.

Pete: (sighing): My teacher says the same.

Mother: I expect you to be back in half an hour.

Pete: All right. I’ll do my best.

Notes: to run out of smth. – истощить свой запас; …we’ve hardly any bread in the house – …у нас почти не осталось хлеба дома; oh, bother – какая досада; …it was Nelly who did all the shopping – …это Нелли сделала все покупки; as well – также; model – образцовый; to grumble – ворчать; to sigh – вздыхать; to expect – ожидать.

Грамматика Прилагательное

Слово, обозначающее признак предмета, называется прилагательным: red (красный), small (маленький). Английское прилагательное не изменяется ни по числам, ни по родам, ни по падежам: long (длинный, длинная, длинное, длинные).

Односложные прилагательные и наречия, а также двусложные прилагательные, оканчивающиеся на -у, -е, -ow, -er, образуют сравнительную степень путем прибавления к положительной степени суффикса -ег и превосходную степень - путем прибавления суффикса -est: deep - deeper — deepest (глубокий — более глубокий - самый глубокий).