I would like to tell you about shopping in the United Kingdom. Marks & Spencer is Britain's favourite store. Tourists love it too. It attracts a great variety of customers from house wives to millionaires. Princess Diana, Dustin Hoffman and the British Prime-minister are just a few of its famous customers. Last year it made a profit of 529 million pounds, which is more than 10 million a week.
It all started 105 years ago when a young Polish immigrant Michael Marks had a stall in Leeds market. He didn't have many things to sell: some cotton, a little wool, lots of buttons and a few shoelaces. Above his stall he put the now famous notice: "Don't ask how much - it's a penny." Ten years later he met Tom Spencer and together they started Penny stalls in many towns in the North of England. Today there are 564 brances of Marks & Spencer all over the world: in America, Canada, Spain, France, Belguim and Hungary.
The store bases its business on 3 principles: good price, good quality and good service. Also, it changes with the times; once it was all jumpers and knickers. Now it sells food, furniture and flowers as well. Top fashion designers advice on styles of clothes. Perhaps, the most important key to its success is its happy well-trained staff. Conditions of work are excellent. There are company doctors, dentists, hairdressers, etc. And all the staff can have lunch for less than 40 pence.
Suprisingly tastes about food and clothes are international. What sells well in Paris, sells just as well in Newcastle and Moscow. Their best selling clothes are: for women - jumpers and knickers (M & S is famous for its knickers); for men - shirts, socks, pyjamas, dressing gowns and suits; for children - underwear and socks. Best sellers in food include: fresh chickens, vegetables and sandwiches, "Chicken Kiev" is internationally the most popular convience food. Shopping in Britain is also famous for its Freshfood. Freshfood is a chain of food stores and very successful supermarkets which has grown tremendously in the twenty years since it was founded, and now it has branches in the High Streets of all the towns of any size in Britain. In the beginning the stores sold only foodstuffs, but in recent years they have diversified enormously and now sell clothes, books, records, electrical and domestic equipment. The success of the chain has been due to an enterprising managment and to attractive layout and display in the stores. It has been discovered that impulse buying accounts for almost 35 per cent of the total turn over of the stores. The stores are organized completly for self-service and customers are encouraged to wander around the spaciously laid out stands. Special free gifts and reduced prices are used to tempt customers into the stores and they can't stand the temptation.
1) By two o'clock the teacher had examined all the students.
2) On my way to school I remembered that I had left my report at home.
3) All my friends were glad to hear that I had passed all the examinations successfully.
4) Poor Oliver lay unconscious on the spot where Sikes had left him.
5) He opened his eyes, looked around and tried to remember what had happened to him.
6) All the passengers saw at once is that the old man had traveled a great deal in his life.
7) By the time we came to see him he had returned home.
8) During the holidays my friend visited the village where he had lived in his childhood.
9) When they entered the hall the performance had already begun.
10) When I came home my mother told me, that she had received a letter from grandfather.
11) Where had you worked before you entered the institute?
12) ??? Там, видимо, ошибка какая-то.
1. If it rains, we won’t leave home.
2. Usually I will ski if it is enough snow.
3. I will write him about this event if you tell me his address.
4. You will read English books if you study English.
5. She will see her brother when he returns from England.
6. If he goes to the airport by car, he will catch a plane.
7. It’s raining. As soon as we go out we’ll get wet.
8. When mother goes shopping, she will buy some bread.
9. Will you worry if your children are late tonight?
10. Before she goes out, she will switch off the light.
11. Will she recognise him when she sees him again?
12. Give Beth this book as soon as she comes.
13. Will you phone me after you come?
14. If there isn’t coffee, I’ll get some from the shop.
Объяснение:
There are different kinds of shops. Some of them sell bread. Others sell tea, sugar, coffee, butter, cheese, sausages, meat, fruit, vegetables.
When we want to buy something, we take our shopping-bags and go to the shop. There we can see shop-assistants who sell goods.
Many people do their shopping at the market. There farmers and other people sell fruit and vegetables which they grow themselves. They sell meat, milk and other things too.
Large shops with many departments are called department stores and supermarkets. In these stores we can buy almost everything we want. In the shop-windows we can see all the goods which they sell – food, suits, dresses, coats, boots, shoes, radio and TV-sets, and many other things.