Dialogue 5

Dialogue 4

Dialogue 3

Dialogue 2

Dialogue 1

Jack: What are you doing?

Mary: Making a shopping list for today.

Jack: Do we need so many things?

Mary: We haven’t got much tea or coffee left, and we have run out of sugar and jam. So I must go to the grocer’s.

Jack: What about vegetables?

Mary: I’ll ask George to go to the greengrocer’s after school. We haven’t got many tomatoes. But we still have a lot of potatoes. And I must go to the butcher’s. We haven’t got any meat at all.

Shop assistant: May I help you?

Mary: No thanks, I’m just looking. Oh, maybe you can help. I’d like two nice pairs of jeans for my teenage children.

Shop assistant: How old are they?

Mary: The boy is fifteen, and the girl is thirteen.

Shop assistant: Do you know their sizes?

Mary: I think 14 for the boy and 12 for the girl.

Shop assistant: We have a very good choice of jeans. Size 14 is on this rack, and size 12 is over there. You see, they are available in various colors.

Mary: They’re indeed very nice. My son is tall for his age but the daughter’s small. These jeans will be too long for her.

Shop assistant: No problem. You can have them shortened.

Mary: All right, I take them. Where’s the cashier’s desk?

Shop assistant: Over there, please.

A: Have you heard anything about workaholics?

B: Of course, everybody knows about such a notion. Many of us are job addicts without realizing it. When we can’t work for whatever reason, we show similar signs to real addicts – we become irritable and lethargic.

A: And what about shopaholics?

B: Well, it is just the same.

A: What? Do you mean it is really just the same?

B: Truly speaking, I think so. Because all these people are joined by one thing – it is a passion.

A: Wait a moment, please. A passion to what?

B: In the first case it’s a passion to work, such people can’t live without it.

A: And in the second one?

B: It’s a passion to shopping. They can’t live and feel themselves happily without buying anything.

A: They are fond of spending spree all the time.

B: Yes, poor things!

A: Who?

B: Guess yourself!

A: Are you being helped to?

B: No. I’m trying to find a navy blue raincoat, size 42.

A: I can do the size, but not the colour.

B: Do you think you could get one for me.

A: Yes, of course. Look again next week or you might be lucky at our High Street branch.

Cashier: Can I help you?

Mary: I’d like to exchange $200 for rubles. What’s the rate for the dollar today?

Cashier: 30 rubles to the dollar.

Mary: Good.

Cashier: What denomination?

Mary: It tens and fifties, please.

Cashier: Here you are. That’ll be 6000 rubles.

Mary: Thank you.

Cashier: Anytime.

Exercise 11. Read the following extract and retell it:

The department stores that are most popular in London are: Harrods, Harley, Nichols, Selfridge, Marks & Spencer.

Harrods

You can buy anything at London’s famous department store, from a teddy bear to a pair of diamond-encrusted high heels. Once upon a time, you could even get yourself a fully-equipped ambulance! Harrods also housed the capital’s first escalator, built in 1898 (customers were offered brandy to revive them at the top).

Exercise 12. Make up your own dialogues with the following proverbs and expressions.

· Buy a pig in a poke.

· Advertising is the mother of commerce.

· can’t go past	· to fit perfect
· a great choice of…	· impulse buying
· it is not the place to haggle	· can’t stand buying things
· it’s my passion	· to be the latest fashion
· to spend spree	· to be a shopaholic
· free accessorize gift set	· for your pleasure visit www.morrisons.co.uk
· reasonable price

UNIT 13

HOBBIES

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