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Answer the questions according to the text.

1. How do we call a person who buys goods?

2. How do we call a person who sells goods?

3. Where do sellers often advertise their wares?

4. Is shopping a part of your everyday life? Why?

5. Do people always care about the price?

6. Do all people like to go shopping?

7. What kinds of shops do you know?

8. Who are “universal providers”?

9. What goods can we buy at the draper’s (outfitter’s, haberdasher’s, hosier’s, hatter’s, milliner’s)?

10. Where can we buy different objects belonging to the school-life?

11. Where can you buy a jewellery present for your dearest people?

12. What can we buy at the furniture-dealer’s?

13. What food departments do you know? What can you buy there?

9. Give Ukrainian equivalents for:

buyer, purchase, size, cash-desk, straw hat, a thick-wool cloth, underwear, linen, shirts, thread, lace, ribbons, notebook, envelope, crayon, fountain-pen, ink, watch, clock, pipe, wardrobe, blanket, crockery, lock, door-handle, pasta, lard, oil, butter, vinegar, salad-dressing, sauces, sausage, cod, salmon, herring, mackerel, plaice, trout, pike, pilchard, lobster, crab, sardines, sprat, haddock, kipper, bloater.

 

10. Give English equivalents for:

універсальний магазин, універсальні постачальники, продавець, товари, готовий одяг, пальто, дощовик, чек, купувати, вовняна тканина, бавовняна тканина, нейлонові панчохи, булавка, голка, пуховка, шкарпетки, буханка (хліба), рогалик, нирки, цибуля, часник, спаржа, боби, смородина, аґрус, полуниця, малина, вишня, персик, абрикоса, ананас, диня, кавун.

 

Agree or disagree with the following statements.

1. Shopping has different elements wherever it takes place.

2. Buyer offers goods for seller.

3. Sellers advertise their wares in newspapers, on the radio or TV.

4. Everybody likes to go shopping.

5. “Universal providers” can supply everybody with everything he needs.

6. Women get their hats at the hatter’s.

7. At the gentleman outfitter’s one can buy ready-maid suits.

8. The watch-maker repairs watches and clocks.

9. Granulated sugar is sold at a sweet-shop.

10. Most shops have shoplifters who have the job catching store detectives.

 

12. Translate the following words into Ukrainian and use them to fill the blanks in the sentences below:

(to fit, conversation, shopping, tight, size, to try on, metre(s), to buy, edition, department, frock, dressing-booth, to wrap up, wide, to cost, to open, rayon, cotton, necktie, quieter).

1. I have to do some ….

2. When does the department store …?

3. … them … all together, please.

4. How much does a meter …?

5. How … is it?

6. How many … do I need for an overcoat (a suit)?

7. I need overshoes (galoshes). May I … them …?

8. The shoes are a little …. Please show me some of a larger ….

9. I want a suit that would … me.

10. Where can I … English books?

11. Please show me the English-Ukrainian … book. Is this the latest …?

12. Where is the … for technical book?

13. Please show me another.... This is too bright. I should like something ….

14. I’d like a summer …. I want to try it on. Certainly. You can change in the … to the left.

15. I’d like to see some 41 size shirts.


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