Words and expressions

department store – универмаг

trend – тенденция

customer – покупатель

bargain – скидка

market – рынок

quality – качество

antiques – антиквариат

to retain – сохранять

jewelry – драгоценности

to be on sale – быть в продаже

to offer – предлагать

to cost – стоить

price – цена

Assignments

Task 1. Answer the questions.

1. Where can the big stores be found?

2. When were they founded?

3. What is special about them?

4. When does Harrods have the sale?

5. Where can you buy cheap goods?

6. What are the most popular big and small shops in your city?

7. Are they situated in the centre of the city?

Task 2. Translate into Russian and write the words which they are formed from.

Unfashionable, exception, knowledge, attractive, importance, buildings, carefully, suitable.

Task 3. Match the English and Russian equivalents.

goods выбор

price в наличии

range здоровая пища

on offer товары

department цена

enter отдел

heath food войти

Task 4. Read the text below. Use the word given in brackets to form a correct part of the speech.

Bargain hunting

For the British, bargain hunting is something of an (1 - addict). At least that’s the (2 - conclude) of a recent survey into the nation’s shopping habits. The increasing (3 - popular) of alternative retail outlets, such as second –hand shops and car boots sales is (4 - evident) of this and the main (5 - attract) for shoppers is the chance to pick up a bargain. The (6 - tradition) start of the car boot season is the Springbank Holiday weekend when an (7 - estimate) ten thousand sales are held up and down the country. There are, however, certain minuses to this type of shopping. The chances of buying faulty or (8 - steal) goods is much greater than in a conventional shop, for example. What’s more, (9 - consumer) may not have the full (10 - protect) of the law when they of the law when they are buying second-hand goods, and so may have no one to turn to if they are cheated.

Read and translate the text

Marks & Spencer Britain's Favourite Store

Marks & Spencer (or M&S) is Britain's favourite store. Tourists love it too. It attracts a great variety of customers, from housewives to millionaires. The Duchess of York, Dustin Hoffman, and the British Prime Minister are just a few of its famous customers. Last year it made a profit of £529 million, which is more than £10 million a week.

How did it all begin?

It all started 105 years ago, when a young Polish immigrant, Michael Marks, had a stall in Leeds market. He didn't have many things to sell: some cotton, a little wool, lots of buttons, and a few shoelaces. Above his stall he put the now famous a notice: “Don’t ask how much – it’s a penny”.

Ten years later, he met Tom Spencer and together they started Penny Stalls in many towns in the north of England. Today there are 564 branches of M&S all over the world – in America, Canada, Spain, France, Belgium, and Hungary.