2.Catherine likes toys very much and she often stops and looks at them in the shops. (T/F)

3.Catherine went shopping in the evening after school (T/F)

4.Catherine suddenly stopped in front of the best shop in town because she saw a beautiful toy bear. (T/F)

5.She entered the shop because she decided to buy it. (T/F)

6.Catherine has lost her mother. (T/F)

7.Catherine began to cry. (T/F)

8.Catherine came up to the policeman in the street and asked him if he had seen her mother. (T/F)

9.The policeman asked her where she lived. (T/F)

10.Suddenly Catherine saw her mother buying a beautiful toy for her. (T/F)

Text 4 «Shop! Shop! Shop!»

Words for the text:

•household — домашний

•attutude — отношение

•unlike — в отличие

•therapy — терапия, лечение

•suicide — самоубийство

•satisfy — удовлетворять

•contemporary — современный

•essence — суть

•duty — долг

Who does most of the shopping in your family? The answer will be women. It isn’t most certainly for household needs but it is an activity they do for pleasure.

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The book «Theory of Shopping» written by Daniel Miller, a professor at University College, shows the differences between men’s and women’s attitude to shopping. Unlike men, for women, shopping is often a kind of therapy, a hobby.

But shopping has its darker sides as we learned this week with news of the suicides of two shopaholics. Trudi Susyn killed herself after she had been spending as much as £7,000 per week on clothes, shoes and beauty products. Masimi Dawson, a single mother, hanged herself after it was discovered that she had been stealing money at work to pay her shopping debts.

Do tragedies like these show that women are really crazy about material things? Miller believes that most women don’t shop to satisfy their own needs alone. He thinks that in our culture shopping is one of the main ways of expressing love. Women do most of the shopping for others.

In contemporary English families, love holds the whole thing together but it’s not talked about. Love is expressed by paying attention to what others want. If you buy your partner the thing he’s always wanted, or you buy your child healthy food, you show that you care about that person. This is the essence of contemporary love: understanding what the other person is about, doing things for them or buying things for them, not because it’s your duty but because you understand them.

Task 1 . Choose the right answer.

1. Women go shopping because A they like it.

B men don’t want to do it. C they are shopaholics.

2 Men

A don’t go shopping.

B think that shopping is enjoyable. С don’t see shopping as a hobby.

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3 Before they killed themselves Trudi and Masimi A were single mothers.

В stole money.

С were shopaholics.

4 Most of the things women buy are A clothes and beauty products.

В never used. С not for them.

5 In English families

A people don’t talk about shopping. В people don’t talk about love.

C women love their families more than men do.

Writing

Task1. Write the summary of the text. What are the + and – of shopping

Speaking

Task1 .Discuss these questions with a partner.

1.Do you enjoy Christmas shopping, or do you find it a chore?

2.How early do you do your Christmas shopping?

3.Who do you buy Christmas presents for?

4.Have you ever shopped online for Christmas presents?

5.Do you give your Christmas gifts in bags, or wrap them in paper?

6.Which member of your family is the hardest person to buy for? Why?

7.Which member of your family is the easiest person to buy for? Why?

8.What was the best Christmas present you ever received? Why?

9.What was the worst Christmas present you ever received? Why?

10.Have you ever returned a Christmas present and exchanged it?

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