DOWN ON THE HEALTH FARMS
“Thousands of teenagers are overweight” says Haven Health Farm manager. The staff at the Health Farm says that many teenagers often do not know how to eat well and stay healthy, like Karen. Karen Porter was 13 years old. She weighed 110 kilos and was 1, 55 m tall. Karen usually had a large bowl of cereal, with a few spoons of sugar, for breakfast. After her cereal, she often ate the leftover food from the night before. In the evening, Karen usually had more fried food and she often ate a packet of biscuits. Karen never ate any fruit and she rarely had fresh vegetables. Her main exercise was changing the TV channel or opening the fridge door. Haven Health Farm helped Karen with her diet and exercise plan. She now eats a lot of fresh fruit and vegetables and goes swimming regularly. She now weighs about 60 kilos and is still losing weight. Teenagers often come to the Farm depressed and with little confidence. When they leave it they are usually happier and more confident about themselves.
1. Write the list of Karen’s bad habits before she went to Haven Health Farm. Do you have these, or other, bad habits? 2. Which paragraphs are about a) Karen’s new habits. b) General health problems c) The health farm’s results d) Karen’s old habits? 12. Here is Karen’s six-point diet plan. Match the phrases on the left with the phrases on the right to complete it.
1. Throw out a) eating between meals. 2. Stop b) low-fat milk and cheese. 3. Change to c) new hairstyle. 4. Buy some d) all biscuits and cakes. 5. Get e) enough sleep 6. Do f) exercises regularly. 13. Write your own plan of healthy way of life.
14. What are the facts and arguments, which the authors put forward to show? Express your attitude to them. 1. That is necessary to work out laws of health. 2. People are often ignorant about their health. 3. If our body suffers from any disorder, our mind suffers with it.
SHOPPING
SHOPS AND SHOPPING Shops are very important in our life: there we buy our food, clothes, and other things. We buy bread at the baker’s shop. We see loaves of white and brown bread on the shelves behind the counter. We pay for our loaf at the cash desk and then receive it from the shop assistant, who stands behind the counter. When we want to buy tea, sugar, coffee and also butter, cheese, sausage, tinned fruit, tinned meat, tinned fish or jam, we go to the grocer’s shop. The shop where we buy meat is called the butcher’s shop. The shop assistant weighs the meat, wraps it in paper, and tells us the price. We pay for it at the cash desk. When we want to buy fruit or vegetables, we go to the greengrocer’s. Many people do their shopping at the market. There the farm workers sell the vegetables and fruit, which they grow in their fields, vegetables gardens and orchards. Large shops with many departments are called department stores. In this stores we can buy almost all we want. In the widows we see all the things which they sell there – food, suits, dresses, ladies’ coats, men’s overcoats, boots, shoes, radio and TV sets, and many other things.
Topical Vocabulary
1. In Russia goods may be purchased either at specialised shops or at department stores.
2. Looking for a necessary department at a department store or a shop in town, you can make use of the following list of the typical Russian shops:
3. The shops called SOUVENIRS will offer you various souvenirs which will remind you of Russia, Moscow and other towns and cities you would like to visit.
4. You will certainly need some foodstuff on your way. In Russia you will find specialized provision stores and supermarkets.
5. Read the text and answer the questions:
1. What kind of shops do you know? 2. What do we buy at the baker’s shop? 3. Where do we pay for what we have bought? 4. Where do they sell tea, sugar, coffee, tinned meat, cheese, jam? 5. Who tells you the price? 6. Where do we go if we want to buy berries, fruit or vegetables? 7. What do the farmers sell at the market? 8. Who sells food in the shops? 9. What is the department store? 10. What can you buy in the department store? 11. Where is the department store in your town? 12. What departments are there in a department store? 13. What can you see in the shop windows of the store? 6. Read the following dialogues and reproduce them: a) to yourself b) in pairs At the Butcher Department
Butcher : Do you want any meat today, Mrs. Bird? Mrs. Bird: Yes, please. Butcher : Do you want beef or lamb? Mrs. Bird: Beef, please. Butchers: This lamb’s very good. Mrs. Bird: I like lamb, but my husband doesn’t. Butcher: What about some steak? This is a nice piece. Mrs. Bird: Give me that piece, please. And a pound of mince too. Butcher: Do you want a chicken, Mrs. Bird? They are very nice. Mrs. Bird: No, thank you. My husband likes steak, but he doesn’t like chicken. Butcher: To tell you the truth, Mrs. Bird, I don’t like chicken either.
Steak – говяжья вырезка Mince – мясной фарш At the Milk Department
Customer: Is there any milk in packets? Assistant : Yes, a liter packet costs 11 rubles. Customer: One packet, please. Assistant: Anything else? Customer: Yes, two hundred and fifty grammes of butter. Assistant: That will be twenty-five rubles. Customer: Two hundred grammes of cheese at one hundred and seventeen rubles per kilo. Assistant: That will cost twenty four rubles. Customer: That will be all. How much will it be? Assistant: That will be sixty rubles. Customer: Here is one hundred. Assistant: And here is your ticket and your change. Customer: Thank you. Assistant: Don’t mention it.
At a Ready-made Clothes Department
- Well, how do I look in this coat? - Very nice, indeed. It suits you perfectly. - Isn’t it too loose in the shoulders? - I wouldn’t say so. But you may try on a size smaller.
- Can you change this blouse, please? - Why? What’s wrong with it? - It’s the wrong size? It’s too small for me. - But what size are you? - I’m not sure. Can you measure me? - Yes, certainly. You’re forty-six. - This one’s the right size.
7. Form all possible questions to which the following sentences are the answers. 1. Peter went to the fitting-room to try on trousers. 2. Double-breasted suit (двубортный костюм) is in fashion now. 3. We’ll spend a lot of money on footwear. 4. The pullover is very expensive. 5. The skirt is very tight on me. 8. Fill in prepositions if necessary. 1. What size … suit do you wear? 2. This jacket is not … fashion now. 3. I’m afraid the shirt is a bit loose … you. 4. Is your scarf made …nylon or … silk? 5. This cardigan does not go … a silk skirt. 9. Translate into English.
1. Эта шляпка вам идет. 2. Я хочу купить сумку в тон моему шарфу. 3. Это пальто плохо на мне сидит. 4. Туфли малы моему ребенку. 5. Пусть он подойдет к зеркалу и примерит этот нарядный костюм. 6. Это платье очень дорогое. Мне бы что-нибудь подешевле. 7. Я предпочитаю носить платья из натуральных тканей. 10. Additional material for reading.
SHOPPING IN LONDON
Going shopping in a strange city is a wonderful and instant way of participating in everyday life there. What’s fun about shopping in London is that you can save time by shopping in the right area. Antique shops, for example, cluster around Portobello Road and Notting Hill Gate. Shops selling audio and computer equipment have spread up and down Nottingham Court Road in central London and Edware Road, which starts at Marble Arch. The booksellers gathered around Charring Cross Road. If you are a foreigner returning to your country of origin, you can claim back the 13 per cent net Vat (value added tax) charged on most goods in Britain (if you spend more than 100 pounds). To do this you need to fill a form at the shop, have it stamped there, and then hand it to the customs office at the airport or port. It normally takes 6 weeks for the money to be refunded.
strange city – незнакомый город customs office – таможенные органы
РАЗМЕРЫ ОБУВИ / SHOES SIZES
РАЗМЕРЫ ОДЕЖДЫ / CLOTHES SIZES
РАЗМЕРЫ БРЮК, ДЖИНСОВ / WAIST SIZES
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