Учебное пособие по развитию навыков устной речи и чтения для студентов 1 курса технических специальностей

4. Complete the following sentences about your eating habits. Develop the idea using the words and words expressions from the article:
1) In my family we often …
2) We usually have dinner …
3) I feel it’s important …
4) I sometimes cook …
5) At weekends we …
6) I spend a lot of my free time …


5. Read the questions in ‘Mind your manners!’ Think about your answers.
Work in pairs and discuss your answers.


Mind your manners!
1) What do you say at the start of a meal?
2) Do you usually use a knife and fork?
3) Do you use a napkin?
4) Where do you put your hands when you are at the table but not eating?
5) When do you usually drink coffee and tea?
6) When you can’t reach something on the table what must you do?
7) When you don’t want a dish what do you say?
8) How do you indicate that you have had enough?


C. Shops and Shopping
1. Match the definitions on the left with the words on the right.
1) A shop where you can buy fashionable clothes. shop assistant
2) A large shop which sells all kinds of food and household goods. sale
3) A person who works in a shop. supermarket
4) The place where you can try on clothes in a shop. butcher
5) The place where you pay for things in a shop. room
6) The shop where fruit and vegetables are sold. сash desk
7) The shop where you buy meat. chemist
8) The shop where you buy medicines, baby products, etc. florist
9) The shop where you buy flowers. greengrocer
10) An occasion when a shop sells things at less boutique
than their normal price.
2. Read the conversation, fill in the gaps with the appropriate word from 1, then act out the dialogue.
Mother: OK. Let me look at my list. First of all we need to go to the (1) ….because I want to send some flowers to your Aunt Mary. And then we’ll go over to the post office so that I can send these Christmas cards off.
Jane: Oh, Mum, that’ll take ages! There are always long queues on Fridays. You go and post your letters while I go and get the meat from the (2) …. .
Mother: Could you pop into the (3) …. and get that cough medicine for your father. It’s just next door to the (4) … . Actually you could pop in there too and get a couple of onions and a cauliflower. No, let’s get all the fruit and vegetables with all the other things we need from the (5) … .
Jane: Didn’t you say you wanted to go back to the shoe shop where you bought those sandals that the heel came off?
Mother: Yes, but I doubt that they’ll give me a refund. I bought them in the end of season (6) … .And I thought they were such a bargain at only ₤10. Oh, no!
Jane: What’s the matter?
Mother: I can’t find my purse! I must have left it at home and it’s got the original receipt for the sandals and all my credit cards in it.
Jane: Don’t worry. I’ve got plenty of money so we can still get all the things on the list.