Test in Reading (the 7th form) Topic "Shopping"

Test in Reading (the 7^th Form)

Control Text “Shopping in Our Life”

    We go shopping practically every day. Shopping is fun! There are many different kinds of shops in every town or city: food shops, department stores, grocer’s, baker’s, butcher’s, greengrocer’s, dairy’s and so on.

  If your fridge is empty, take your shopping bag and in a food supermarket you can buy different things an once: sausage, fish, meat, sugar, tea, sweets, salt, cheese and other things.

   At the butcher’s they sell meat, sausages, ham and chickens. At the baker’s you can buy bread, buns, rolls, cakes, pies. Vegetables and fruit such as cabbage, cucumbers, tomatoes, onions, beet, apples, oranges, cherries are sold at the greengrocer’s. At the dairy you are sure to buy milk, sour cream, cottage cheese, butter or yoghurt.

   Many customers prefer to do their shopping at the supermarkets where from counter to counter you can choose everything you like. All products are sold ready-packed.

   Some people do their shopping at the market where there is a wide choice of different things.

If you want to buy jeans, trainers , or a birthday present you would go to the department store, which has many departments:  clothes, shoes, furniture, radio and electric appliances and many other things.

   Shop-assistants, cashiers work in the shop. A shop-assistant at the foodstore weights on scales the things you want to buy, wrapes them and you pay money at the cash desk, then the cashier gives you the change and the bill.

   It is not difficult to make a suitable purchase.

Test in Reading (the 7^th Form)

Control Text “Shopping in Our Life”

I. Translate.

to go shopping-…                                                              to do shopping-…

grocer’s-…                                                                         greengrocer’s-…

dairy-…                                                                              market-…

baker’s-…                                                                          butcher’s-…

to pay money-…                                                                to buy bread-…

department store-…                                                           cash desk-…

II. Complete

1. If your fridge is empty…                     1. Some people do their shopping…

2. Many customers prefer…                     2. We go shopping…

3. At the butcher’s…                                3. At the dairy…

4. At the market…                                    4. The cashier…

5. Vegetables and fruit are sold…            5. A department store has many…

6. You can buy bread…                            6. In a food supermarket…

III. Answer the questions.

1. Do you like shopping ?Why\ Why not ?
2. Where do you usually buy clothes (at the market, supermarket, a design shop, department store)  ?
3. Where can you buy fish ?
4. Do you like to go shopping with your parents, your friends or alone ?
5. Where do the sell sour cream ?
6. What is the best place to do shopping in our city ?

IV. Write about your last visit to a department store or a supermarket (what you bought there, what the prices were, how much money you spent there).