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Exercise 1. a) Repeat the group of words after the teacher / partner.

b)Translate them by ear.

c)Find the odd word in each line. Why are they odd?

1)knitwear – leisurewear - suede - lingerie department - millinery department

2)manageress – shop assistant – wholesale – cashier - retailer

3)retail - spendthrift – devoted shopper – purchaser - customer

4)queue – line – cash-desk – receipt – size – cut price

5)to match – to fit – bargain-hunter - to go with – to suit

6)haberdashery – hosiery – discount - ironmonger’s – jeweller’s

Exercise 2. “Snowball”. Work in a group. Every student names one word from the list, the others repeat the previous and add one more item. Continue working until the students can remember the succession of words.

Exercise 3. Fill in the gaps with appropriate words and phrases. Compare the two opinions on the shopping malls. What do you think about shopping malls?

1. Shopping mall

I think I may be allergic to shopping malls. I am not sure if my condition has ever been recorded officially by medical science but I am sure there are (OTHER)__ who suffer as I do.

All I have to do is walk inside one of these awful places and within minutes the artificial "day light" from a thousand "soft" lights (BEGIN)__ to give me a headache. Then there is the piped music which tunes in and out. (WALK)__ endlessly from shop to shop, my brain slowly turns into a large vegetable.

Christmas is in July and Valentines’ day is in October in these unreal labyrinths. A Christmas gift, paid for in August seems wrong to (I)__. And surely no one can believe signs that promise the (BIG)__ sales ever virtually every day of the year.

Shopping should be exciting in my opinion with fresh sites and beautiful goods to buy. Instead it feels much (CLOSE)__ to being in a strange parallel universe. Worst still is trying to leave. I can never find my way out to fresh air and daylight. I wonder if some poor souls remain (TRAP)__ down there for weeks on end.

2. In the mall

посещает мебельный салон и отдел электробытовых товаров в поисках новинок. А я люблю заглянуть в ювелирный отдел и померить разные браслеты и ожерелья.

4) – Этот торговый центр просто огромный. Мне нужно найти магазин канцтоваров, чтобы купить открытку.

- Посмотри на первом этаже, там большой выбор поздравительных открыток. А я пока зайду в магазин «Сделай сам». Давай встретимся через полчаса в кофейне на крыше.

INTRODUCTORY READING AND TALK

Task 1. Read and translate the text.

Shopping is a very important part of life, but shoppers are faced with a confusing and rapidly changing situation. The confusion arises from the claims made by advertising, a wider choice of goods than ever before, and new places to shop. The prices of clothes, shoes, and make-up have gone sky-high, so it’s vital that you do not waste your money and that you shop carefully for value.

Be sure of what you want — never shop vaguely, because when you get home you purchase may not match anything else you’ve got.

Shop around for the best price and quality. Start with a department store, where they stock a wide range of goods and souvenirs. There you can find many departments: haberdashery, hosiery, drapery, millinery, ladieswear, menswear, and footwear. If you are looking for a skirt and a top to go with it, you’ll need "Separates". You’ll find shorts or T-shirts in

"Leisurewear", jumpers in "Knitwear", and a nightdress in "Nightwear". In

"Accessories" they sell belts, gloves, and purses. Try on all the trousers or dresses they have in the line although it may be quite boring to wait if the changing room is occupied. Check out the racks with the sign "sale". Although it usually seems to be the small sizes that are offered in sales, you can sometimes find some super buys.

Feeling cheered up by your new purchase, don’t forget to keep the receipt, in case an item turns out to be faulty. You’ll need the receipt if you want to exchange the item or have your money refunded. If you are a bargain-hunter, try clothes markets. They often don’t have the high overheads of town shops and can therefore keep prices lower, though they can stock substandard goods. Flea markets are not the best place to buy anything. The prices are low, but the quality is, too.

Don’t put off the purchase of festive gifts until there are only two days left before a holiday. Department stores are swarming with last-minute shoppers, so you may have to queue for half an hour at the checkout till. From everywhere you can hear people swapping rumours, ‘They have sold out all the

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scarves’, and ‘They have run out of that cream’. You inevitably get involved in exchanging remarks with other people in the queue or with salesgirls. Sometimes the talk gets so interesting that the cashier’s question whether you want to pay in cash or by credit card takes you by surprise. Anyway, you pay and feel happy that you have made a bargain, which puts you in a good mood.

Dear friends, make shopping entertaining. Shop together with your friends. Enjoy attractively designed displays and well-dressed shoppers browsing through trendy items. Then you will definitely like it.

Exercise 1.

1. Look at the picture below and name all departments. Say what one can buy there.

2. Where can you buy the following items?

jewellery, a pair of shoes, stockings buttons, zips, fabrics, a suit, a swimsuit, pyjamas, a hat, a cardigan

3. What can you buy in the following shops?

an antique shop, an art shop, a bookshop a boutique, a florist’s/flower shop, a furniture shop, a gift shop a hi-fi store, an ironmonger’s a jeweller’s, n optician’s a pet shop, a photographic shop a radio shop, a record shop a sports shop, a stationer’s a toy shop

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4.Describe the best-known department store in your city. What does it sell? Do you like it? How do you get there? What attracts you and what annoys you in a big department store? Take the following points into account:

convenience / choice / service / quality / price

5.What would you personally never buy in a department store — and why?

Exercise 2

Study the table and speak about shops in Britain / Russia.

The following hierarchy of shops is usually found in medium-large cities in Britain

Task 2. Read and translate the text. Do the exercises after the text.

TEXT

A Devoted Shopper

(Extract from the book by Sue Townsend "The Queen and I". Abridged)

Sayako came out of the changing room in Sloane Street1wearing this season’s suit, as featured on the cover of EnglishVogue.2 Last season’s suit lay on the changing room floor in an untidy heap. She surveyed herself in the fulllength mirror. The manageress, svelte in black, stood behind her.

‘That colour’s very good on you,’ she said, smiling professionally. Sayako said, ‘I take it and also I take it in strawberry and navy and

primrose.’3

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The manageress inwardly rejoiced. She would now reach this week’s target.4 Her job would be safe for at least another month. God bless the Japanese!

Sayako walked over on stockinged feet5to a display of suede loafers. ‘And these shoes to match all suits in size four,’ she said. Her role model

was the fibreglass mannequin6 which lolled convincingly against the shop counter, wearing the same cream suit that Sayako was wearing, the loafers that Sayako had just ordered and a bag that Sayako was about to order in navy, strawberry, cream and primrose. The mannequin’s blonde nylon wig shone under the spotlights. Her blue eyes were half closed as though she were encaptured by her own beauty.

She is so beautiful, thought Sayako. She took the wig from the mannequin’s head and placed it on her own. It fitted perfectly.

‘And I take this,’ she said.

She then handed over a platinum card which bore the name of her father, the Emperor of Japan.

As the manageress tapped in the magic numbers from the card,7 Sayako tried on a soft green-coloured suede coat which was also being worn by a redhaired mannequin. The suede coat cost one penny less than a thousand pounds.

‘What other colours do you have this in?’ asked Sayako of the assistants, who were packing her suits, loafers, bags and wig.

‘Just one other colour,’ said an assistant (who thought, Jesus, we’ll have a drink after work tonight).

She hurried to the back of the shop and quickly returned with a toffeebrown version of the sumptuous coat.8

‘Yes,’ said Sayako. ‘I take both and, of course, boots to match, size four.’ She pointed to the boots worn by the red-haired mannequin.

The pile on the counter grew. Her bodyguard standing inside the shop door shifted impatiently.

When the Princess and her purchases had been driven away, the manageress and her assistants screamed and yelled and hugged each other for joy.

Sayako sat in the back of the limousine and looked at London and its people. How funny English people are, she thought, with their wobbly faces and big noses and their skin! She laughed behind her hand. So white and pink and red. What bodies they had! So tall. It wasn’t necessary to have so much height, was it. Her father was a small man and he was an Emperor.

As the car set off on its journey towards Windsor, where she was staying at the newly opened Royal Castle Hotel, Sayako’s eyes closed. Shopping was so tiring. She had started at 10.30 in Harrod’s lingerie department9 and now it was 6.15 and she had only taken an hour off for lunch. And when she got home she had that puzzling book to read, Three Men in a Boat. She had promised her

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father she would read at least five pages a day. It would improve her English, he said, and help her to understand the English psyche.

She had already ploughed through The Wind in the Willows,10 Alice in Wonderland and most of Jemima Puddleduck11but she had found these books very difficult, full of talking animals dressed in the clothes of human beings.

At Hyde Park Comer the car stopped suddenly, the driver swore and Sayako opened her eyes. The bodyguard turned around to face her.

‘A demonstration,’ he said. ‘Nothing to fear.’

She looked out of the window and saw a long line of middle-aged people crossing the road in front of the car. Many of them were wearing beige anoraks that Sayako, a devoted shopper, identified as coming from Marks and Spencer.12A few were carrying signs on sticks.

Nobody appeared to take any notice of them, apart from a few impatient motorists.

Vocabulary Notes

1. Sayako came out of the changing room in Sloane Street ... — Саяко вышла из примерочной магазина на Слоун Стрит ... (Прим.: Слоун стрит — улица Лондона, получившая известность благодаря расположенным на ней в изобилии изысканным магазинам).

2. ... as featured on the cover of English Vogue — ... точно таком же, как был на обложке английского издания «Воуг» (прим.:

Vogue — журнал мод)

3. ... I take it in strawberry and navy and primrose — ... я беру такой же цвета клубники, темно-синий и бледно-жёлтый.

4. She would now reach this week’s target:— Теперь она непременно выполнит недельный план.

5. ... stockinged feet... [‘st k d] — ... в одних чулках ...

6.Her role model was the fibreglass mannequin ... — Образцом для нее служил синтетический манекен ...

7.As the manageress tapped in the magic numbers from the card ... — Пока заведующая секцией пробивала в кассе магические цифры, перенося их с пластиковой карты ...

8.... with a toffee-brown version of the sumptuous coat —... с таким же роскошным пальто цвета кофе с молоком (Прим.: буквально — коричневый, как сливочная тянучка)

9.She had started at 10.30 in Harrod’s lingerie department ... — Она начала в половине одиннадцатого с отдела женского белья в Хэрродз ... (Прим.: Хэрродз — крупнейший универмаг Лондона).

10.She had already ploughed through The Wind in the Willows ... — Она уже осилила «Ветер в Ивах» (Прим.: книга детского писателя К. Грэма).

11.Jemima Puddleduck — Джемайма Падлдак (Прим.: имя утенка из сказки Б. Поттер)

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12. ... identified as coming from Marts and Spencer. — ... определила, что они куплены в Маркс и Спенсер (Прим.: Маркс и Спенсер — известная сеть магазинов в Великобритании)

Comprehension Check

1.What was Sayako trying on in the changing room?

2.Why did the manageress inwardly rejoice?

3.What attracted Sayako’s attention in the shop?

4.What was a role model for Sayako?

5.How was the mannequin dressed?

6.What else did Sayako buy in the shop? In what colours?

7.How did the manageress and her assistants react when Sayako had left?

8.What did Sayako think about English people?

9.Was Sayako tired of shopping? Why?

10.What was Sayako reading?

11.Was she reading for pleasure or not?

12.Whom did Sayako see in the street?

Phonetic Text Drills

Exercise 1

Transcribe and pronounce correctly the words from the text.

Suit, to survey, manageress, inwardly, to rejoice, target, suede, loafer, fibreglass, mannequin, to loll, nylon, to encapture, platinum, toffee, version, sumptuous, bodyguard, to yell, limousine, wobbly, lingerie, psyche, to plough, anorak, to identify.

Exercise 2

Pronounce the words and phrases where the following clusters occur.

1. consonant + ð

On the cover, and these shoes, in the full-length mirror, inside the shop, when the princess, in the back, and their skin, had that, found these books, in the clothes.

2. plosive + 1

Black, at least, bless, fibreglass, blonde, blue, closed, platinum, impatiently, and looked, at London, people, ploughed.

3. plosive + r

Cream, primrose, tried, drink, princess, driven, screamed, and red, promised, would read, improve, crossing.

4. plosive + plosive

And placed, fitted perfectly, take both, and big, laughed behind, what bodies, bodyguard turned.

5. consonant + w

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Job would be safe, card which, this week’s, suede, coat which, cost one, just one, quickly, returned with, it was, it would.

Exercise 3

Pronounce after the announcer avoiding false assimilation. Comment on the phonetic phenomena.

This season’s suit, as featured, as though, is so beautiful, as the car, was staying, was so tiring.

Exercise 4. Transcribe the following compound words.

Green-coloured, red-haired, toffee-brown, bodyguard, middle-aged.

VOCABULARY EXERCISES

Exercise 1

Reproduce the sentences in which the following words and phrases are used in the text.

To survey oneself in a full-length mirror, to be very good on somebody, to rejoice, to match, to be encaptured by something, to fit perfectly, to try on, to shift impatiently, to set off, tiring, to plough through, to be a devoted shopper, not to take any notice of something.

Exercise 2. I. Find words opposite in meaning to the following ones from the

text.

1.Untidy, safe, same, beautiful, sumptuous, funny, necessary, tiring, difficult, impatient;

2.Rejoice, place, fit, improve.

II. Give synonyms.

1.Heap, purchase, journey;

2.To survey, to place, to improve, to swear;

3.Sumptuous, tiring, puzzling

Exercise 3

Match the words on the left with their definitions on the right.