5.Revise the text and answer the questions. 1.Where do Alexander`s family prefer to do their shopping?
2.Why do they find it convenient?
3.What kinds of shops do you know?
4.What do they sell at the butcher`s?
5.Where can you buy fish?
When we want to buy something, we go to a shop. Although every town or city has many kinds of shops, many of these are typical: a supermarket, a department store, men`s and women`s clothing stores, a grocer`s, a baker`s, a greengrocer`s, a diary and a butcher `s.
Alexander `s family like to do their shopping at big department stores and supermarkets. These sell various goods under one roof and this is very convenient. A department store, for example, true to its name, consists of many departments: ready-made clothes, fabrics, shoes, sports goods, toys, china and glass, electrical appliances and electronics, cosmetics, linen, curtains, books, gifts, jewellery etc. You can buy anything you like there.
There are also escalators in big stores which take customers to different floors. The goods for sale are on the counters so that they can be easily seen. In the women`s clothing department you can find dresses, suits, blouses, skirts, coats, beautiful underwear and many other things. In the men`s clothing department you can choose suits, trousers, overcoats, ties etc. In the knitwear department one can buy sweaters, cardigans, short-sleeved and long-sleeved pullovers, woolen jackets. In the cosmetic department they sell perfume, face creams and powders, lipsticks, lotions, shower gels, soap, shampoos…
In the supermarket we can also buy many different things in the same location: meat and sausages, fish, sugar, pasta, flour, cereal, tea, coffee, bread and whatnot.
At the butcher`s there is a wide choice of meat and poultry. At the baker`s there is a wide choice of brown or white bread, rolls and biscuits.
Another shop we frequently go to is the greengrocer `s, which is stocked with cabbage, potatoes, onions, cucumbers, carrots, beetroots, green peas and various fruits. Everything is sold here ready-weighed and packed.
If you call round at a diary, you can buy milk, cream, cheese, butter and many other milk products.
Children are genius creations in my opinion. I am one of those weird people who admires them more than adults. I like the way they are able to think freely, to express themselves in the way they want and to follow examples they think are better for them.
Every child has a hero, an example he admires and follows in everything he does. Usually it is his mother or father, with rare exceptions including thei grandparents, friends or random acquintances. Nevertheless, boys use to set as their hero a mystical character they've encountered in books or seen on TV, like Superman, Batman, Spiderman and so on. These fictional heros are good as well in my opinion, as children will learn to be brave and help others. It is a much bigger problem if they find a hero in a negative character as it will develop some negative parts of a children's behaviour.
Having a hero will motivate a child to become someone and acquire the features that will soon form his behaviour. From this point of view, I think that adults should set an example for themselves as well. I believe this will encourage them to do things better, to compete in order to achieve their goals and to change their nature in a better way. So, I don't think that having a hero is childish and we totally shouldn't avoid it, thinking that we are too mature for this.
That being said I think we as adults have a lot to learn from children. Not only that they are free to do whatever they want, they are also following great examples that will help them become one day an example as well.
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