Shops in our life.

Shops play an important role in our life, because everything we have, everything we eat and wear we buy in shops. Out of all services used by people shop service is the most frequent and it's no wonder. Shops are supplied with the necessary things which people buy to keep themselves living. There are different types of shops in cities. The biggest of them are groceries and department stores. Lately supermarkets have become popular.

Task 1. Translate the phrases:

Все, что у нас есть _______________________________________________________

Все, что мы едим ________________________________________________________

Все, что мы надеваем ____________________________________________________

Из всех услуг ___________________________________________________________

Это не удивительно ______________________________________________________

Покупают, чтобы поддерживать жизнь ______________________________________

В последнее время _______________________________________________________

Task 2. Answer the questions:

1. Why do shops play an important role in our life?_________________________________

2. What types of shops are mentioned in the text? _________________________________

3. What type of shops have become popular lately? ________________________________

4. What types of shops do you know? ___________________________________________

Shops take a great part of our life. These days shopping has become the way not only to buy things we need, but also the way to relax, to entertain especially for women. Some women even consider shopping to be a kind of promenade. That is to show themselves and to look at others. Besides for some women shopping has become a real disease, that is having no shopping one day, they feel themselves ill. Psychologists call such people shopaholics.

Task 3. Is it true or false?

Shopping doesn’t take a lot of our time. ____________

Shopping is the way to relax and to entertain for many people now. ___________

Some women consider shopping to be a kind of promenade. ___________

Psychologists doesn’t call people who like shopping shopaholics. ____________

Supermarkets

Nowadays the process of shopping is an easy one. People prefer supermarkets to any other shops, because in a supermarket you can buy practically all necessary things and spend less time. You can buy meal, household chemistry and clothes. In large cities, some people have not enough free time and consequently they go shopping 1-2 times a week, they buy products and other necessary things for the whole week. Many people also prefer supermarkets, because after they buy all necessary things , they pay only one time at the cash desk. The shop assistant weighs goods on scales and says how much they cost.

Task 4. Translate the phrases:

prefer supermarkets to any other shops ______________________________________________

practically all necessary things ____________________________________________________

household chemistry ____________________________________________________________

and consequently _______________________________________________________________

for the whole week ______________________________________________________________

at the cash desk ________________________________________________________________

weighs goods on scales __________________________________________________________

how much they cost _____________________________________________________________

Task 5. Answer the questions:

1. Why do people choose supermarkets nowadays? ____________________________________

2. What can you buy in a supermarket? _____________________________________________

3. How many times a week do people usually go shopping in large cities?

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4. What do a shop assistant do with a customer’s goods? _______________________________

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