Happiness is not in money, but in shopping

1.

“Happiness is not in money, but
in shopping.”
Marilyn Monroe

2.

Read aloud
Grocer’s
Bargains
Careful
Household
Strawberries
Accompanied
Co-operative
Attractively
Assistant

3.

Equivalents
Иметь больше свободного времени
To have more time to spare
В сопровождении
Accompanied by
Искать выгодные покупки
To look for bargains
Товары, аккуратно расположенные на
подносах
The goods are tidily arranged on trays
Четко проставленные цены
Prices are clearly marked
Много места для прохода покупателей
There is a plenty of room for the customers
to walk about
Испытывать соблазн
To be tempted
The same brand
Та же марка
Все распродано
Сравнительно низкие накладные расходы
To be sold out\ we have sold out
Relatively low overheads
Значительно ниже
To be considerably lower
Деньги на домашнее хозяйство
Housekeeping money

4.

Equivalents
Местный гастроном
Local grocer’s
Выгодная покупка
Bargain
Длинные полки
Long shelves
Различные цены
Various prices
Большой выбор
A wide range\selection
Замороженное мясо
Frozen meat
Стиральный порошок
Washing powder
Крем для обуви
Shoe polish
Свежие яйца
New-laid eggs
Рыбные консервы
Tinned fish
Зубная паста
Toothpaste
Проволочная корзина
Wire basket
Растворимый кофе
Instant coffee

5.

Equivalents
Магазин на углу
Corner shop
Касса
Cash desk
Кассир
cashier
Cash register
Pack
Кассовый аппарат
Упаковывать
Кошелек
Сдача
Purse
Change
Чек
receipt
Обычный магазин
Ordinary shop
Апельсины
Oranges
Земляника (клубника)
Цветная капуста
Strawberries
Cauliflower
Брюссельская капуста
Sprout

6.

Missing words
to spare
does her shopping at the big
At the week-ends, when she has more time _________,
Elinor Lloyd ______
self-service food stores in town, _____
for she can buy a lot of good _______
more cheaply there than at her
grocer's. .
local _______
Accompanied by
round
________________
her husband or her daughter she walks ________the
Cooperative supermarket and
for
other large food stores looking _______
bargains.
customers walk ________.
about
plenty of room for the _________to
There is _________
with
The shelves are well stocked ________a
very wide selection of attractively packed goods – everything
from
to
from
to
_________
quick-frozen food __________washing
powder, _______shoe
polish _______new-laid
eggs,
to
from
______tinned
fish ________toothpaste.
attractively
for the goods are so ________
careful when shopping in a self-service store _____
She has to be __________
tempted
displayed that she is ___________
to buy things she does not need or cannot really _____________.
afford

7.

Missing words
to
queue When it is her
Elinor goes ____the
cash desk, where there is a short ______.
______
turn the cashier reckons up the bill ____
on a cash register which automatically
meantime another shop assistant packs
items In the __________
adds up the various _______.
the goods _____
into Elinor's shopping bag. Elinor pays, carefully puts the ______
receipt
into her purse and leaves the shop. A wide range of clothes,
and the change _____
household goods, fruit and vegetables is on sale and prices are often
considerably lower
______________________than
___
in the ordinary shops, for the stall-holders'
overheads are relatively
______ low.

8.

Questions
1. Why does Elinor do part of her shopping at
the big self-service stores in town?
2. Why does she have to be careful when
shopping at such stores?
3. How big is the market?
4. What sort of goods are on sale there?
5. What is Elinor proud of?

9.

Questions
Make up questions to which the following sentences might be the
answers:
1. Elinor looks for bargains in the Co-operative Supermarket.
2. All the goods are attractively packed.
3. The shop normally sells Worcestershire sauce, but they’ve
sold out at the moment.
4. The cashier reckons up the bill on a cash register.
5. Washing powder is 5p a packet cheaper than at her local
grocer’s.
6. She’s saved about fifty pence of the housekeeping money.

10.

Sentences
Combine the following words into sentences. Translate them into Russian:
1. When, at the week-ends, she, more time, has, to spare, Elinor Lloyd, her, at the big selfservice food stores, shopping, in town, does.
2. Can, she, buy, more cheaply, a lot of goods, than, there, at her local grocer’s.
3. Accompanied by, she, round, large food stores, walks, looking for bargains, her husband
or her daughter.
4. These, usually, brightly-lit large self-service stores, are, and, well laid out.
At the week-ends, when she has more time to spare, Elinor Lloyd does her shopping at the
big self-service food stores in town.
She can buy a lot of goods more cheaply there than at her local grocer’s.
Accompanied by her husband or her daughter she walks round large food stores looking
for bargains.
These large self-service stores are brightly lit and usually well laid out.

11.

Sentences
Combine the following words into sentences. Translate them into Russian:
5. The goods, tidily, are arranged, and, long shelves, the prices, on, on trays, which, are
clearly marked.
6. There is, to walk about, plenty of room, for the customers.
7. The shelves are, attractively packed goods, well stocked, a very wide selection of,
with.
8. Elinor, from, wire basket, shelf to shelf, filling her, walks.
The goods are tidily arranged on trays and long shelves on which the various prices are
clearly marked.
There is plenty of room for the customers to walk about.
The shelves are well stocked with a very wide selection of attractively packed goods
Elinor walks from shelf to shelf, filling her wire basket.