Types of shops

convenience store, supermarket, street market, corner shop, shopping mall, hypermarket

shop owner, make money, customers, convenient, crowded, noisy, friendly, relaxing, quiet, quick service, personal service
Expressing opinion
I think, I find, If you ask me, They should I don’t think, I guess

Eating habits

Eat together sit around the table, have breakfast/lunch/dinner, have a snack, to wash hands before, say bon appétit, have a quick meal

Questions:

1. How often do you shop?

2. In your home, who does the food shopping?

3. Which shops do you prefer and why?

4. What are the advantages of supermarkets?

5. Do you think supermarkets will replace small corner shops?

6. Do you have a favourite kind of food, dish, or meal of the day?

7. What dishes can you cook? What ingredients do you use a lot?

8. What are the eating habits in Russia?

9. What time do you usually have meals? Are they quick or long?

10. Do you say anything before or after a meal?

11. What is the main meal within Russian families? What is it like?

12. Where you live, are there any good places to buy food from other countries?

13. How often do you eat out? Where do you go?

14. Are there any good places to eat near your home?

15. What do you order when eating out?

Unit 4

Encounters

Vocabulary

Transport

to go by air/sea/plane/car/bus/tram/train/underground/bike/motorbike

to go ON foot

get on/off (a bus), get in/out of (a car/a taxi), pay the fare, give a tip, change trains, miss your connection, catch a bus, hail a taxi, a taxi rank, to give/get a lift, to hitchhike, to use public transport, to take the underground, to buy a single/return ticket, to drive, ride, to fasten/put on your seatbelt

Telling a story

When, during, after, then, later, as

Questions:

1. What types of transport do you usually use?

2. How do you commute to university?

3. What’s the bus fare in your own city?

4. How long does it take you to get to university?

5. How do you travel to other cities? How long does it take?

6. How often do you use taxis in your own city? What do you use them for?

7. What about when you’re travelling?

8. What was your last trip by taxi? Where did you go?

9. Tell about the most unusual or exciting journey you have ever been on:

a. Where did you go?

b. Who did you go with?

c. How did you travel?

d. What did you see and what happened during the journey?

e. What was special about it?

Think of a time in your life when you met someone interesting. Answer these questions.

a. Where were you? When was it?

b. What were you doing?

c. What was the person like?

d. What did you talk about?

e. Did you spend much time together?

f. Are you in contact now?

Unit 5

Money

Vocabulary

can’t afford, save, borrow from, lend, pay back, lose, earn/make money, spend on, waste money, win, invest in, owe, bet on, steal, to be worth smth

I find it easy to save money

salary, savings, millionaires, will, investment, play roulette, roulette table, accept bets, gambling, change the money into, pay by credit card / in cash, accept cash, ask for change, leave a tip,

Is there somewhere I can change some money? What is the exchange rate for dollars? one dollar to 34 rubles, Have you got the change for 5 pounds?

in total, coins, a 50 pence coin, bank notes, dollar bills

a bargain, sum of money, wallet, purse, piggy bank, virtual economy

Questions:

1. How many different coins and notes are there in your country? What pictures do they have on them?

2. How often do you use a cash machine or go into a bank?

3. When you go shopping, how do you prefer to pay? (In cash, by credit card, another way?)

4. How do you usually pay bills? Do you ever use the Internet for paying bills, banking or shopping?

5. Why do people borrow money from banks?

1. What kind of things do you spend most money on?
2. What do people waste money on? Have you ever spent money stupidly?
3. Does anyone borrow money from you? Is money always paid back?
4. Do you earn money?
5. Do you like gambling? Have you ever won money?
6. Do you find it easy / difficult / impossible to save money?
7. What would you like to buy but you can’t afford it?
8. What is a good idea to invest money in?
9. Have you got a credit card? What is more comfortable: to pay in cash or by a credit card?
10. What does it mean ‘Money is only money’?
11. Will money ever be a thing of the past?

Unit 6

Energy

Vocabulary

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