IV. Finish the sentences:

1. At the baker’s one can buy bread, ... . 2. You go to the grocer’s if you need sugar, ... . 3. At the fishmonger’s they sell fresh fish, ... . 4. At the dairy shop you can buy milk, ... . 5. The butcher’s deals in fowl, ... . 6. At the confectioner’s there is a wide assortment of tarts, ... .7. At the greengrocer’s one can buy various vegetables:... . 8. If you want to make a tart you need flour, ... . 9. If we are going to cook a festive dinner we usually buy a bottle of wine, ... . 10. Every day I buy some bread, ... . 11. Once a week I buy some butter, ... . 12. Summer is a season of berries: strawberries…

V. Answer the questions:

1. What do we buy at: a) a grocery counter; b) a meat counter; c) a confectionery counter, 2. What dairy produce do you know? 3. Which is more expensive: butter or margarine? milk or cream? chicken or goose? apples or lemons? onions or garlic? wine or cognac? 4. Where do we go for fish (cereals, sweets, strong drinks)? 5. Who does the shopping in your family? 6. What food stuffs do you usually buy every day? 7. What food stuffs do you buy once a week? 8. What berries do you know? When are they in season? 9. Do you prefer to do the shopping in big shops or in specialized shops? Why?

Reading and Speaking Activity

VIII. Read the text in order to get its general idea. Text 1. In the Supermarket

When we need some food-stuffs or some consumer goods we go out to do the shopping.

There are different kinds of shops which deal in different goods. Thus, for example, the bookseller’s is a shop where books are sold, souvenir shops have a wide assortment of souvenirs, at the jeweller’s one can buy jewellery, etc. There are plenty of other specialized shops: the baker’s, the butcher’s, the grocer’s, the fishmonger’s, the milk shop, the confectioner’s, the greengrocer’s, etc. But there are also big shops which consist of many counters. They are called supermarkets.

Let’s drop in at a modern supermarket. These are usually self-service stores. Customers must take a wire basket or a cart and go along the aisles where the units are displayed. If you need some groceries you go to the grocery counter, which trades with cereals (buckwheat, millet, oatmeal, rice, semolina, pearl-barley), macaroni, noodles, flour, sugar, salt, coffee (instant and in grains), cocoa, various spices, vegetable oil, packets of dry soup, etc. Everything is sold ready-packed.

Bakery goods are sold at the bakery counter. Here one can buy brown/rye bread, white/wheat bread, buns, rolls, rings, rusks, etc.

The dairy counter deals in loose and bottled fresh milk, sour milk, yoghurt, cream, sour cream, butter, margarine, cheese, cottage cheese/ curds and other dairy produce.

If you are in want of some fish you must go to the fish counter. It usually keeps a wide assortment of herring, fresh, salted, frozen, smoked and tinned fish.

At the confectionery counter there is a wide choice of caramel, sweet, cakes, fancy cakes, pastries, biscuits, waffles and chocolate.

The wine counter trades with strong drinks: wine (table, dry, sweet/ dessert), brandy, cognac, liqueur, champagne, etc.

At the sausages counter one is offered a variety of sausages, ham, bacon, chain-sausages, frankfurters, meat rolled, etc.

Various vegetables (potatoes, tomatoes, onions, garlic, cucumbers, cabbage, carrots, beetroot, melon, water melon, pumpkin, black radish, garden radish, parsley, fennel, lettuce, celery, spinach, cauliflower) and fruit (apples, pears, plums, cherries, sweet cherries, grapes, apricots, peaches, pineapples, bananas, pomegranates, oranges, tangerines, grapefruit, lemons) and berries (strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, bilberries, gooseberries, red currants, black currants) are sold at the greengrocer’s and fruiterer’s.

As a rule there is also a special hall where they sell butcher’s meat (pork, beef, veal, mutton) fowl, minced meat, lard, etc.

When customers choose everything they need, they join one of the queues past the cash-desks. The cash register totals the bill. The customers pay the bill and leave the supermarket.