TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION. CONVERSATIONAL TOPICS

51 Explain in English the meaning of the following.

Tinned foods, dairy products, a toffee, a confectioner’s, to match, to fit, an assortiment, a shoe-horn, a cash-desk, a customer, a fitting-room, stores, a double-breasted suit, ready-packed goods, ready-bottled vegetable oil, ready- to-serve foods, loose milk, a fancy cake, it is not in stock, a fast dye, a crease- resistant raincoat, it’s a bargain, to try something on, I’m stock size, it’s too bright, it’ll show the dirt too quickly, it won’t fade.

52 Comment on the changing fashions in shirts, trousers/pants, .

suits, coats, dresses, shoes and ties. Say: Do you try to keep up

with the fashion?

53 Say what the following shops and tradesmen sell.

The butcher, the grocer, the greengrocer, the dairy, the fruiterer, the con­fectioner, the fishmonger, the poulterer, the cakeshop.

54 Say at what shops you can buy the following.

Sugar and tea, bread, buns and rolls; meat; fish and herring; fruit and veg­etables; flowers and plants; chicken, ducks and geese; sweets and chocolate; cloth; hats; stockings and socks; rulers, ink and notebooks; books and maga­zines; jewellery and watches; nails and tools; medicine and toiletgoods; thread, needles and handkerchiefs; a frying-pan; records; instant coffee; a pair of shorts and a track suit; a wedding-ring and a bracelet; a packet of cigarettes and a tin of pipe tobacco; a TV set; a portable radio and a tape-recorder; a pair of slip­pers; a man’s suit and overcoat; a lamp and an electric stove; some sour cream and butter; some beef and mutton; half a duck; a loaf of brown bread; a bar of chocolate; a kilo of granulated sugar; a water-melon or pears; a pair of gloves; a writing-pad; a necklace; a divan-bed; knitting needles; a doll or a teddybear; a souvenir; a pair of shoes; a reading lamp.

55 Name some kinds of vegetables, meat, poultry, fruit, pastry.

56 Say what you buy when you make beetroot soup, cabbage soup, meat salad, rissoles, mushroom soup, fish salad.

57 Describe a big department store in your city (abroad).

58 Speak about your experience of shopping abroad (if any).