1.At the Diary.

Customer: Do you have long-life milk?

Shop assistant: Sure we do. How many cartons would you like?

C: Two, please. Will you cut me a piece of cheese?

S: How big?

C: Not very big. For half a kilo, please.

S: Anything else?

C: Five bio youghurts, please, and a shopping bag too.

S: Here they are. 238 rubles, please.

2. What do we need?

A: What do we need at the store?

B: We need a carton of milk, a pound of bacon, and a loaf of bread?

A: Do we need eggs?

B: Yes. Please, get a dozen.

3. Buying fish

A: How much is the fish?

B: It’s $2.79 a pound. Do you want this one?

A: Yes, I’ll take it.

B: Is that all?

A: Yes. That’s all today.

Exercise 6. Make your own dialogues:

Example:

Have you got any bananas?

Yes, we have. How much do you want?

Yes, we have. How many do you want?

1. Do you have any meat? -

2. Do you have any milk? -

3. Do you have any cherries? -

4. Do you have any potatoes, tomatoes and cucumbers?-

5. Do you have any fruit? -

6. Do you have any bread? -

7. Do you have any butter? -

8. Do you have any fresh meat? -

9. Do you have any chocolate? -

10. Do you have any eggs? -

Exercise 7. Make dialogs of your own. Use the following words.

1. shopping bag; slice of; piece of; to wrap up; have a look at this....; It’s too big for me.

2. a pizza, a can of coca-cola, humburgers, a can of juice.

3. cheese; cream; long-life milk; butter; youghurt.

4. a piece of meat; sausages; canned meat; chickens.

5. rice; coffee; tea bags; eggs; vegetable and salad oil; canned food.

Exercise 8. Make up dialogs based on the following stories:

1. At a supermarket

Susan came to a supermarket. She needed to buy some things. She chose some items after looking around. Susan studied the price tags on her purchases, counted the total and put the goods into a basket. She prepared the necessary amount of money and came up to the the cashier's. Saying "hello" to the cashier, she put the basket on the cash desk.

The cashier rang up the total for Susan. It was larger than she had expected. In embarrassment Susan asked the cashier why the total was larger than it could have been expected from the price tags. The cashier explained to her that it was because of sales taxes. So Susan paid, asked the salesclerk to put her buys in a plastic bag and left the place.

2. At a department store

Last Saturday Richard Johnson went shopping on Madison Avenue as he was to leave N ew York soon. He drew up his shopping list and set out on his shopping tour. First he visited the men’s department of a big department store. He came up to a salesclerk and asked her to help him choose a suit. He explained to her that he would prefer a double-breasted suit for winter wear. As to the color it might be of any color but not too loud. The salesclerk offered Richard a wide choice of suits. He chose a double-breasted brown suit. It was rather expensive because it was made of pure wool. But the price didn't make any difference to Richard. He tried on the suit in a fitting-room. It was a perfect fit. So he bought the suit and left the department.