V-1 Reading 1 Read the text. Match sentences A-G with gaps 1-5. There are two extra sentences.
Shopping habits in the UK have changed over the last sixty years, and this can be seen in the changing appearance of any British high street-the main shopping street in a town or city. In the 1950s, high struuts nad rows of individual shops selling different things. Most people did this every few days in order to buy fresh food. The high street was a sociable place to be.
This started to change in the 1970s with the arrival of supermarkets. They gave people the chance to buy everything that they needed in one place. People didn't need to go to Individual shops any more. So this new type of shop, along with a new way of storing meat and fruit at home, meant that instead of doing a small shop every few days. people could buy all the food that they needed for a week or sometimes even a month.
As supermarkets became more popular, they changed from small local shops to huge
superstores. They took people away from the high street. They also tried to offer
customers everything that they needed, like a coffee shop, a hairdressers and a chemist's. But this meant that the shops on the high street started to close down as they lost their customers. These days, more and more people are choosing not to go to supermarkets to do their shopping People are also trying to spend less money, so a new type of discount shop has become very popular. It may be because of this that people have stopped doing big weekly or monthly shops. Now they go to shops more frequently to buy what
they need for the next few days. So, in many ways, people neem to be going back to the
way people shopped in the 1950s
A The idea was to get customers to spend all their money in one place.
B
Customers knew exactly where to find the things they needed in each shop. And because of their size, many of these supermarkets were outside town.
D People loved it because they had never had the chance to do all their shopping there before At the same time, more and more people had freezors in their houses.
F There was a greengrocar's next to a butcher's next to a baker's, and people visited each place to do their shopping.
G Instead, they are using the internet to shop from home and get their shopping delivered.
2 Read the forum posts. Match texts A-D with questions 1-5. One text matches with two questions.
A Dale-Bread maker
I can't remember how many times our bread maker has been used since Mum got it at Christmas, but it's a lot. I was a bit worried because I read in a magazine that bread makers are one of those gadgets that people are often given as presents, but then they never use them. I don't know why that is because it looks really easy to use. You just put all the ingredients in, press a button, and a couple of hours later you have a fresh loaf of bread. It beeps once when it's ready! I love waking up to the smell of fresh bread each morning and Mum says she'll never buy a loat of bread again, so I think it was a really successful present
B Karen-Spider catcher
The sheer variety of shops on Oxford Street make it the place to be if you want to explore the best of what the UK high street has to offer. As well as just about every big high street name, Oxford Street is home to some incredible flagship stores as well as a number of restaurants. With so much to do, you really could spend a whole day here.
Marks & Spencer
The Oxford Street flagship store of the British retail giant is located at the Marble Arch end of the street. It is the largest M&S outlet anywhere in the country and boasts everything from clothing to food and furnishings. The shop is divided into ranges for every customer, so you can find the collection that works for you. Don’t get confused with Marks & Spencer Pantheon, a smaller store found at the opposite end of Oxford Street.
Debenhams
Last year, Debenhams unveiled its newly refurbished, better-than-ever flagship store on Oxford Street, so now is the perfect time to visit. The shop boasts a huge beauty hall and extensive shoe collection alongside five fabulous floors of the latest fashion, three eateries and a great home department. Whether you’re looking to shop to your heart’s content or sit back and be pampered, you can find it all here; beauty services in the store include a brow, tanning and waxing bar, skin spa and nail bar
Объяснение:
Once an incredibly funny story happened to me. The whole family came to the village for the summer. Me and my dad are going fishing. We didn't have to go far, because the river was right behind the garden.
This was not the first time I went fishing, so I knew approximately what was happening and how. While helping my father to untangle the line, I heard a strange rustle in the bushes. There was a coniferous forest on the other side, so we concluded that it could be a squirrel. Dad and I took turns casting our fishing rods, and in less than a minute each of us pulled out an average perch that was found here in abundance. The river was so clear and transparent, and the sun bright, that their shining scales and red fins could be easily seen bent over the crystal water.
We put our catch in a pre-prepared net and decided to have a snack. Mom gave us sandwiches for the trip so that we don't go hungry. But in the bag where they had been lying before, they were gone. “It's strange, I remember exactly putting them on the bottom of my backpack,” Dad said in disappointment and surprise at the same time. Something rustled in the bushes again, and we immediately turned our heads in the direction of the continuous noise.
Father got up and crawled into the bushes, and went out already holding by the scruff of our red cat Vasily, in whose teeth was one of the perches we caught. The gnawed bones of the second, after a careful examination of the bushes, were found next to the remains of bread from sandwiches. Well, the cat could hardly keep on its paws and looked more like a ginger Kolobok.
From that day on, he got another nickname Glutton. Of course, not every cat can eat so much!