Dialogue 1 Customer: Have you a hat that will fit me, sir? Salesman: Velour or felt, black or grey? Customer: A grey felt, if not too expensive. What is the price of a good felt hat? Salesman: Here is one of superior quality for one hundred euro. Customer: Let me try it on. It is too small. Salesman: Let’s try another. This will do very well, I am sure. Customer: I do not like the shape. Hats with so wide a brim are not to my taste; besides the crown is too high. Salesman: Excuse me, sir. Hats with narrow brims and low crowns are quite unfashionable now. Customer: Well, then I must take it, but the band is too narrow; can’t you change it? Salesman: Yes, we can, but you will be charged five euro extra for this kind of alteration, sir. Customer: Never mind. How long do I have to wait? Salesman: Oh, it’ll be done in 10-15 minutes. Customer: Very good. I’ll go over to the shoe department in the meantime. Which way am I to go? Salesman: It’s on the second floor to your right, sir. (After some time the customer comes back). Salesman: Here is your hat, sir. Would you like to see how it looks now? Customer: Yes, please. Ah! That’s a great improvement. What is the price all in all? Salesman: One hundred and five euro, sir.
5. Study the vocabulary and learn the words. Read and translate the dialogue.
Vocabulary: kid – лайка (кожа) suede – замша totakeone’smeasure – снимать мерки с кого-либо tomatch –подходить, соответствовать (под пару; по цвету, форме) to wrap smth up – обёртывать что-либо
Dialogue 2
Salesman: What can I do for you, young lady? Customer: Will you, please, show me some gloves? I should like grey ones. Salesman: What kind of gloves would you like? Kid gloves or suede? Customer: Kid gloves, please. Salesman: What size do you wear? Customer: Really, I don’t know. I’d like to try them on. Salesman: Sorry, but it is not allowed to try gloves on. May I take your measure? Customer: Sure. Salesman: Your size is number 7. Here are gloves of that size. They are of the best quality. Customer: They are, indeed. What’s the price? Salesman: Four thousand roubles. Customer: That’s too expensive. Can you show me cheaper ones? Salesman: Oh, yes. Do you like these? Customer: They are not bad. And they match my coat perfectly! How much are they? Salesman: Two thousand roubles. We have still cheaper ones, but they are not so good. Customer: I’ll take them. No, you need not wrap them up. I’ll put them on.
6. Comment on the usage of modal verbs in polite questions:
1. Will you, please, show me some gloves? 2. What kind of gloves would you like? 3. May I take your measure? 4. Can you show me cheaper ones?
It is almost impossible to imagine our life without TV. It plays a great and a very important role in the life of modern man. There is practically no family that doesn't have a TV set. TV is one of the mass media kinds. Radio and newspapers tell us about different events but TV not only tells but also shows. TV has a lot of channels and everybody can watch the programs he likes. Our television suggests various programs: talk show and game show, news and sporting events, about animals and about foreign countries and so on. Soaps-lovers can watch their favorite films almost every day. TV shows us a lot of films of different countries: detective and melodrama, comedy and triller. As former I like to see adventure films, fantasy, comedies. My favorite sporting events programs are about volleyball, swimming, track-and-field athletics and gymnastic. I watch many programs with great interest. These programs are: a wild nature program, "Anshlag", some game shows and so on. There are a lot of films (most of them of foreign TV-companies) with a great number of corpses, with seas of blood now. It's not very good to my mind. I think that one of the aims of TV is to bring up TV-viewers, to cultivate love to our country, kindness and other positive features of character.
Tennis - a sport in which two players play against each other, or two teams of two players each, on the court. The goal of the game - throw the racket ball over the net on the side of the partner so that the ball fell within the opponent's court and he could not fight off his back. The main components of engineering tennis, running, grip the racket and hit the ball. During the game players use the additional playing equipment - racket. It is designed for reflection rubber tennis ball flight. The match winner is the one who gets the most number of wins for the sets according to the rules of the game Draw each point starts with the ball. A player from the back line throws the ball in diagonally opposite located right opponent. The first presentation is always carried out on the right side of the center line of the field.
