James: Those ones, please.
Shop assistant: Twenty pence each, sir.
James: I’d like three, please.
Shop assistant: Anything else?
James: Yes, please. Today’s newspaper.
Shop assistant: I’m sorry. We don’t sell newspapers.
II At the greengrocer’s
Denis: What do you sell in your shop?
Shop assistant: I sell fruit, vegetables, salads and flowers.
Denis: I see you have white grapes this morning. How much are they?
Shop assistant: Which ones? These? 1 pound a pound.
Denis: And those red ones?
Shop assistant: The same.
Denis: Right. I would like to buy a bunch of white grapes. Where do you get them?
Shop assistant: Just a minute. O.K. I go to the wholesale market every morning.
Denis: Oh. Can I have two oranges, please? I think that’s all.
Shop assistant: That’s all? That is 2 pounds twenty.
4. Complete the text with the words from the Word Box.
Вставьте подходящие по смыслу слова.
whole useful separately keeps involved keen learn improve textiles
The Ahluwalia family come from India but now they live and work in London. They run a ............... family business. Their two generations are ............ on selling textiles. Their basic work is importing ............ from Japan, India, France.
The ............ family is interested in the business: the father, the mother, the mother’s sister, the mother’s brother, the brother’s wife. Their father generally ............... an eye on the whole business. The women want to get ............... into the business, too. They do the office work.
The family would like to ............ their work and try to find modern textiles. They always use modern equipment in their work.
The parents and their children live............... Their last generation – their children – ............... at schools in London.
Try to retell the text.
Постарайтесь пересказать текст.
5. Give possible answers to the questions.
Дайте возможные ответы на вопросы.
1. What is your wife’s job?
2. Do your sister’s children study at school?
3. What is your daughters’ entertainment?
4. Do your friends’ parents work in a stressful environment?
5. Is their children’s health very important?
6. Are James’ friends keen on riding bicycles?
7. Is Alex’s gym very useful?
6. Make up a dialogue putting the sentences in the right order.
Составьте диалог, расположив предложения в логическом порядке. Инсценируйте диалог.
Yes, I am. Just a minute. Can’t you see? I am improving my health.
Yes, it can. When I am reading it, you don’t ask me to do anything. And it improves my health very much.
