Unit 8 Shopping Essential Vocabulary

I. Find in the dictionary, read and memorize the following topical words and expressions:

Shoppers and Shop Utensils: basket, wire basket, bill, cashier, cash-desk, change, check out, computing scale, counter, customer, money, price, price card, price label, purchase, receipt, receipted bill, shopping bag, shelves, shop assistant, shopping list, showcase (display case, indoor display window), trading hours, trolley, wrapping paper, goods, consumer goods, assortment, cart;

Kinds of Shops: supermarket, department store, (bargain) sale, bookshop/store, book stall, boutique, cash-and-carry, flea market, gift shop, grocery store, private shop, provision shop, the dairy mar­ket.

Departments: bookseller’s, the baker’s, the butcher’s, the confectioner’s, the grocer’s, the greengrocer’s, the fishmonger’s, frutter’s.

Food-stuffs: canned (tinned) food, frozen food, eggs, hard / soft drinks.

bread: brown (rye) bread, white (wheat) bread, bun, roll, ring, rusk;

dairy products: loose (bottled) milk, fresh milk, sour milk, cream, sour cream, yogurt (yoghurt, yoghourt), margarine, butter, cheese, cottage (curds) cheese;

confectionery: cake, fancy cake, tart, pastry, biscuit, waffles, sweets, caramel, chocolate;

cereals: rise, buckwheat, millet, oatmeal, semolina, pearl-barley, pea, flour, macaroni, noodles, vermicelli;

spices: salt, pepper, mustard, vinegar, oil, sugar;

meat: minced meat, pork, beef, veal, mutton, lard, ham, sausage, chain-sausage, frankfurter, meat rolled, poultry, fowl;

fish: frozen fish, smoked fish, salted fish, sprats, herring, kipper ;

vegetables: potato, onion, garlic, cucumber, tomato, cabbage, carrots, pumpkin, melon, watermelon, radish, black radish, garden radish, cauliflower, beetroot, parsley, fennel, lettuce, celery, spinach;

fruit: apple, pear, plum, apricot, lemon, grape, peach, orange, tangerine, banana, pineapple, grapefruit, pomegranate;

berries: cherry, sweet cherry, strawberry, raspberry, blackberry, bilberry, gooseberry, red currant, black currant.

II. Translate read and learn the following words-combinations:

1) to go shopping 8) to total the bill

2) to do the sopping 9) to join a queue

3) to run out of something 10) to wrap up the pur­chase

4) trading hours 11) to deal in;

5) To drop at in 12) to trade with

6) to pay the bill 13) to sell

7) to be in want of smth..

Vocabulary Activity

III. Finish the sentences:

1. I need some bread. Where is the nearest... ? 2. Tarts and cakes are sold at ... . 3. If you need some fish you go to ... . 4. Potatoes, tomatoes and other vegetables are sold at ... . 5. We have run out of milk. Go to ... and buy some. 6. Where is meat sold? - At ... , of course. 7. Where can I buy sugar? - You must go to ....