Методическая разработка по английскому языку на тему "Магазины" (Shops)

Тема: Магазины

Цель: изучение профессиональной лексики, повторение грамматики, чтение и перевод

Study the vocabulary

Task 1. Read and translate the text.

In the Supermarket.

There are many kinds of shops catering for needs of the population. You can go shopping to small food stores: the grocery store, liquor store, store of dairy products, butcher's, bakery, greengrocer's, fishmonger's, confectionery, candy store.

But I prefer’ to shop in large stores — supermarkets. It is a wonderful trip. Supermarkets sell more than just food. Many sell items for the car, household goods, cosmetics and cigarettes. Some even sell books, medicines and flowers.

A large modern supermarket has been opened recently not far from my block of flats and most often I go shopping there. I am its regular customer now.

When you come into the supermarket, you have to take a food basket or a shopping cart to put all the products you buy.

All the necessary foodstuffs can be bought here: meat, fish, milk, grocery, baked items, sweets, cooked sausages, smoked foods, vegetables and fruit. In the meat aisle the customers can buy beef, pork, mutton, veal, poultry and game. There is always a rich choice of fish there.

In the grocery aisle you can see all kinds of cereals: oatmeal, semolina, rice, buckwheat. You can buy cooking soda, spices, flour, salt, oil, macaroni, vermicelli and some other products. Everything is sold in ready packets.

You go to the dairy counter to buy milk products. There is always a wide choice of them: milk in bottles and packets, cream, kefir, sour cream, cheese, curds, cottage cheese, cream cheese, many kinds of yogurt, mayonnaise, margarine and butter. Most often eggs are sold in the dairy department too.

At the bread counter you take loaves of brown (rye) or white (wheat) bread, rusks, rolls and buns.

There is a big choice of items in the confectionery: sugar, granulated sugar, caramel, sweets, chocolates, bars of chocolate, biscuits, fruit cakes, marmalade and also tea, coffee, cocoa.

Next to it is the delicatessen counter (deli) which offers you all kinds of sausages: boiled, half-smoked and smoked, liver paste, ham, lean boiled pork with spices (buzhenina), tinned beef and pork.

The green grocery and fruit aisles look very attracting. Here you can buy fresh, tinned and dried vegetables, fruit and greens. Juicy pears, apples, plums, grapes, oranges, tangerines, bananas, lemons and pineapples are sold in every season. In spring and summer the shop has a great variety of berries: strawberries, cherries, raspberries, black and red currants, gooseberries.

After buying all the necessary products, you come up to the cashier's desk to pay the money. Sometimes there are a lot of customers in the shop and you have to get in line, but most often it doesn't take much time.

If you are a smart shopper, you compare prices, pick out foodstuffs, always look at the date on the labels of perishable foods, check the change and look for bargains. As the English say, "A penny saved is a penny earned."

Task 2. Answer the questions:

1. Which is preferable for you — to buy food in a big supermarket or in small shops? Why?

2. Is the shop where you prefer to buy food close to your block of flats or far from it?

3. What is your favourite supermarket?

4. Are the foodstuffs expensive or cheap there?

5. Do you pay attention to the price of the foodstuffs?

6. How do you make choice when buying food?

7. Do you pay attention to the brand name when you buy food?

8. Do you buy at once or look around for lower prices?

9. How often do you go shopping?

10. Do you often buy expensive products?

11. What kind of products are those?

12. When does it happen?

13. How do you pay — in cash, by checks or by credit card?

Task 3. Give the English equivalents for these phrases and sentences

1. Если мы хотим купить фрукты или овощи, то мы идем в овощной магазин. 2. Там мы можем видеть продавщиц и продавцов, которые продают товары. 3. на рынке. 4. Они также продают мясо, яйца, молоко и другие продукты. 5. различные виды магазинов. 6. Мы покупаем хлеб в булочной. 7. в кассе. 8. Мы платим за нашу буханку в кассе. 9. Продавец взвешивает мясо, заворачивает его и говорит цену. 10. мясной магазин. 11. Большие магазины с множеством отделов называются универмагами. 12. в витрине. 13. Если мы хотим купить чай, сахар, кофе, масло и сыр, мы идем в бакалейный магазин. 14. Мы видим буханки белого и черного хлеба на полках за прилавком. 15. Магазин, в котором мы покупаем мясо, называется мясной магазин.

Task 4. Fill in the blanks with an appropriate word from the list below.

Outside the … Mary stops to glance at the …, …, … full of fruit and vegetables. Mr. Knight, …, who is just … some onions, looks up and greets her with friendliness. Mary enters the … and stands patiently in the … until it‟s her … “The next one, please”, says one of the … It‟s Mary‟s … and the … inquires politely, “What can I get for you, Mary?” – “I‟d like … of Danish butter, … of tea, … of blackcurrant jam, a large … of vinegar, … of frozen peas, … of sardines, a medium-sized … of „Omo‟, … of milk chocolate, and … of lean smoked bacon, please.” The shop assistant … the bacon, … it in … paper and places it on the … with the other … Mary had bought. “That‟ll be all”, says Mary, giving her … to the assistant who writes down the … of the goods and then adds them up. In the meantime Mary … the groceries into her … . Mary … her three pound notes and in return receives sixty-five pence … .

Change, half a pound, shopkeeper, crates, boxes, sacks, wraps, shop assistant (2), a tin, packet (2), shopping bag, counter, hands, shopping list, a bar, a quarter, a bottle, goods, a pound, prices, packs, weighs, grease-proof, a pound-jar, weighing, shop (2), queue, turn (2).

Task 5. Fill in the blanks with the verbs, given below in the proper form:

This dress … you nicely. 2) I want a hat to … this coat. 3) What colour shoes … best … my suit, do you think? 4) I don‟t think the curtains and the carpet … very well together. They simply don‟t … . 5) The blue blouse … you marvelously. 6) I‟m afraid this hairdo doesn‟t … me. 7) You … quite a beauty in this frock. 8) Why doesn‟t this pair of light-blue pumps … you? 9) To my mind, the shade … perfectly well … your eye colour. 10) I couldn‟t believe it was your size, but the dinner jacket … you perfectly. You … so smart in it! 11) You … swell in this new outfit of yours. Everything … .

fit, suit, become, match, go with, look

Task 6. Give English synonyms or synonymous expressions:

Task 7. Read, translate and role-play the dialogue

SHOP ASSISTANT. What can I do for you?

WIFE. I'd like a summer dress. But something not too loud, please.

SHOP ASSISTANT. We have some very nice dresses in green and blue.

HUSBAND. Show us something in green, (to WIFE). Green is very becoming to you.

SHOP ASSISTANT. Here is a nice green dress. Such dresses are just coming in.

HUSBAND. It looks nice, doesn't it?

WIFE. Yes, indeed. I'd like to try it on.

SHOP ASSISTANT. Certainly. You can change in the cabin to the right.

WIFE. Isn't it lovely?

HUSBAND. Yes, you look smart in it. It's very becoming to you.

WIFE. Only I am afraid these stockings don't match. They are a bit too dark.

HUSBAND. Oh, that's all right. We'll just step over to the hosiery counter and buy the right shade, (to SHOP ASSISTANT). We shall take this dress.

SHOP ASSISTANT. Will you wear it now or shall I wrap it up for you?

WIFE. I'll wear it now. It's too much bother changing again.

HUSBAND. Thank you.

SHOP ASSISTANT. Come again.

WIFE. By all means.