Virgo (23.08-22.09) Дева

Hard-working, practical, punctual, but also a little fussy and very critical.

Libra (23.09-22.10) Весы

Artistic, friendly, pleasant, but also lazy.

Scorpio (23.10-21.11) Скорпион

Passionate, brave, extremist but sometimes a little cruel.

Sagittarius (22 .11-21.12) Стрелец

Cheerful, optimistic, talkative, living dangerously.

Capricorn (22.12-19.01) Козерог

Sensible, organized, polite, serious, but conservative.

XI*. Writing: What are your stars telling you?

UNIT VI

SHOPPING

1. Read the text and answer the questions. Shopping

If I have to buy something, I can go either to a market, or to a shop. Both shops and markets have their own advantages. At a market one can easily get whatever he wants without wandering from one place to another. It is very convenient and saves you a lot of time. But on the other hand, markets are sometimes dirty and one can never be sure of the goods he has bought are of supreme quality. That’s the reason why I prefer shops to markets, especially that recently there appeared a lot of supermarkets¹, where one can find any food he needs. As for clothes, books, china, you can find them all at a department store.

When one comes to a shop, he should come up to a counter and choose whatever he wants to buy. He can also consult the shop assistant to make the right choice. Then the customer goes to the cash desk and pays for what he buys.

But apart from department stores and supermarkets there exist a lot of small shops that specialize in selling just a few kinds of goods. The grocer’s is a place where one can buy flour, sugar and goods in cans. If you need some fruit or vegetables, you can get them at the greengrocer’s. My favourite shop is the confectioner’s, because it’s the place where all kinds of sweet and tasty things are sold, such as sweets, cakes, tarts and other things. A confectionery is often located in the same building with the baker’s, where the customers are offered a great variety of bread and buns. If you need any meat, fish or poultry for your dinner, you should go to the butcher’s, fishmonger’s or poultry’s.

Our house is situated within easy reach of shops and I know all of them because it’s me who does the shopping in our family. A shoe shop, dress shop, draper’s, stationer’s and bookshops are just at a stone’s throw (ид. рукой подать) from our place. As for china and furniture shops, watchmaker’s and jeweller’s, we have to go there by bus. But these are shops that we very seldom go to.

At the supermarket:

meat section

fish section

fruit and vegetable section

bakery section

grocery section

drinks section

confectionary section

dairy products section

freezes section

ready prepared food

counter(если в секции есть продавец)

aisle

you take or pick up

1. Answer the questions:

1) How often do you go shopping?

2) Who does the shopping in your family?

3) Do you like shopping? Why? Why not?

4) What shops do you prefer?

2. What do you call:

1) a person whose job is to receive or pay out money in a shop;

2) the desk in a shop where you pay;

3) a shop where you can buy medicines, beauty products ets;