6th form Reading " Shopping in Britain"

1. When you want to buy something, you go to a shop or market. To buy ____ in Britain people usually go to the baker's, to the butcher's, to the sweet shop or to the greengrocer's.

2. If you need either sugar or rice, you go to the ____.

3. If you need fish, you go to the fishmonger's. At the dairy's you can buy dairy _____ like milk or cream.

4. But nowadays supermarkets become more and more popular. They use the ____ system.

5. It means you walk round the shop and ____ what you want.

6. You can use trolleys. At the exit you pay for all your goods at the _____.

7. Buying ____ in Britain can be a problem for Europeans, because they have different size system.

8. Ready-made clothes departments in London usually use both British and European ____ on the tags.

9. There are some traditions about ____ in Britain.

10. Mothers usually buy clothes for small children, but British ____ usually buy clothes by themselves.

11. The British usually buy ____ in supermarkets once a week.

12. Don't forget that the British ____ "please" and "thank you" a lot.