UNIT 5

LET’S GO SHOPPING

THE WEEKEND SHOP

Quantity

1. Nadya and Widi are two students who live in the same boarding house. It is
Saturday morning, and Nadya has written a shopping list.
Read their conversation.
N : It says here milk. How much milk do we need?
W : Two pints.
N : And eggs? How many eggs?
W : A dozen.
N : And what about potatoes?
How many potatoes?
W : A kilo’s enough.
N : And butter? How much?
W : Just one packet.

GRAMMAR SPOT
Can we count milk (one milk, two milks)?
Can we count eggs (one egg, two eggs)?
When do we say How much …?
When do we say How many …?

2. Read to the rest of the conversation.

N : Do we need anything else?
W : Let’s have a look. We’ve got some pears, but
there aren’t any grapes. And there isn’t any
coffee, but we’ve got some tea.
N : Is there any soy milk left, or did somebody
finish it?
W : There’s a little, but there isn’t much, so we
need some more.
N : And vegetables? Have we got many
vegetables?
W : Well, I can see a few carrots, but there aren’t
many onions.
N : Oh, and don’t forget we need a lot of crisps.
My nephews are coming tomorrow.
W : Right, then. Let’s go!

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GRAMMAR SPOT
1. Find sevent count nouns (CNs) and four uncount nouns (UNNs) in the conversation.
2. Tick () the correct columns

We use … With CNs With UNs In positive In questions In negative

sentences sentences
Some     (sometimes) 
Any
Much
Many
A lot/lots of     
A few
A little

3. Look at the forms of something/someone, etc. the rules are the same as for some and any.
Find two examples in the conversation in exercise 3.

some + thing
any one/body
where

3. Expression of quantity
Complete the sentence with some or any.
a. I haven’t got …….. paper.
b. I’ll buy ………. paper when I go to the shops.
c. Is there …….. petrol in the car?
d. Yes, I put ……. In yesterday.
e. I bought ……….. fruit, but they didn’t have ……… vegetables.
f. Do you have …….. change? I need 50p.
g. I saw ……… change on the table a minute ago.
h. I need ……… help with my homework. Are you free?
i. Did you have ………. Problems with this exercise?

Write questions with how much or how man.

a. We’ve got some eggs. How many eggs have we got?
b. We need some flour. ______________________________?
c. She has a lot of children. ______________________________?
d. Can you buy some butter? ____________________________ want?
e. Their house has a lot of bedrooms. ______________________________?
f. Some people are coming for a meal on Sunday. ________________________?
g. Shakespeare wrote a lot of plays. _____________________________?
h. She earns a fortune! ______________________________?

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 Complete the sentences with much, many or a lot of.
a. There are a lot of apples.
b. The shop hasn’t got much washing powder
c. There’s ……….. yoghurt.
d. The shop has …………… bottles of water.
e. There isn’t ……….. frozen food.
f. There aren’t ……….. sweets.
g. The shopkeeper has got ………… cheese.
h. I can see ……… newspapers.
i. But there is ………… rice.

Match a line in A, B and C

A B C
1. Does your tooth hurt? It takes them about an hour ago.
2. Were there many people at the
I’m trying to lose weight.
party?
3. Is there any food left over? You can borrow them if you want.
A few
4. Have you got any soda?
The children ate most of it.
5. Do you have any books on French
literature? But I prefer reading.
6. Would you like some cream? A little
Do you want some ice in it?
7. Are there many Australian people
in your class? But most of them come from Malay.
8. Do you watch much TV?
I’ll go to the dentist tomorrow.
9. Do you get many letters?
10. Do your children get a lot of But no one that you know.
homework? But most of them are bills.

4. Something/someone/somewhere
Complete the sentences with the correct word.
Some
thing
Any
+ one/body
Every
where
no
a. Did you meet ……………. nice at school?
Yes, I met ……………… who knows you!
b. Ouch! There’s ……………. in my eye!
Let me look. No, I can’t see ……………..
c. Let’s go ……………… hot for our holidays.
But we can’t go ……………. I am afraid with the corona virus.
d. I’m so unhappy. ……………… loves me.
I know …………… who loves you. It’s me.
e. I lost my glasses. I looked ………….., but I couldn’t find them.
f. Did you buy …………. At the shops?

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 No, …………….. I didn’t have any money.
g. I’m bored. I want …………….. interesting to read, or ………….. interesting
to talk to, or …………….. interesting to go.
h. It was a great seminar. ……………. enjoyed it.

READING
The Best Shopping Street in the World
5. Read the headlines and the introduction of the newspaper article. Does anything
surprise you? What do you want to find out when you read the article? Write
some questions.

No, it isn’t Oxford street, the Champs-Elysees, or even Fifth Avenue. A new
survey shows that the most popular shopping street in the world is … Nowy
Swiat. Where’s that? In Warsaw, Poland, of course.
By ANNE APPLEBAUM

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6. Read the article quickly and answer the questions you have written.
What is the best summary of the article?
Nowy Swiat is the best shopping street in the world because….
…. So many Polish people go walking there.
…. It is a pleasant place to shop and the shops are small.
…. Everything is very expensive and vert exclusive.
…. The shops sell quality goods that you can’t buy anywhere else.

7. Answer the questions.

a. How do we know that Nowy Swiat is the most popular shopping street?
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b. Why is it such a nice place to go shopping?
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c. What can you see in the photos that is described in the articles?
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d. Why don’t many foreign people go to Nowy Swiat?
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e. Why are the things producted by Polish manufacturers so good?
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f. What can you buy here? What can’t you buy?
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g. What is expensive? What isn’t expensive?
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h. What’s good about Café Blikle?
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i. What is special about the shops in Nowy Swiat?
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8. Language work
Complete the sentences with different ideas from the article.
In nowy Swiat, there are a lot of ……………………
There aren’t any/many …………………..
There isn’t any ……………………...
There are some ……………………..

9. What do you think?

 What are some of the famous brands and products that you can buy in many
countries of the world? Think of bags, clothes, food, cars, ….
Make a list. Work in groups and choose the most famous there.
Compare your list with the class.
 What is the main shopping street in your town? What can you buy there that’s
special?

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  Do you enjoy shopping? What do you like shopping for? What don’t you like
shopping for?
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VOCABULARY

Buying things
10. What can you buy or do in these places? Write two things for each place.

a clothes shop a pharmacy a café a bank a pet shop

Compound Nouns
Nouns can be combined to make a new word or phrase. These are called
compound nouns. They are written in different ways.

One word Two words

Ponytail mobile phone
videotape movie star

11. Put one word in each box to form three compound nouns.
1. Tooth ache 7. lights
Brush warden
Paste jam
2. dining 8. credit
changing birthday
waiting business
3. brush 9. centre
dresser spree
cut list
4. news 10. place
travel engine
estate work
5. cut 11. set
spoon glass
pot tan

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 6. wrapping 12. mail
toilet port
writing conditioning

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