When you come to Britain for the first time, it’s important to know something about British shops. In some countries shops close for lunch but in Britain they usually stay open all day. They open at 9.00 a.m. and they close at 5.30 or 6.00 p.m.
British shops and shopping habits are also different from those in other countries. For example, in Britain you can buy postage stamps only at a post office. You can buy cigarettes in many different places (supermarkets, pubs, newsagents and of course tobacconists), but you’ve got to be at least sixteen. You can buy film for your camera at the chemist’s. Most British families don’t buy their milk or newspaper from a shop; a milkman and a paperboy deliver to their houses.
In almost all towns there are pubs, restaurants, fish and chips shops, a pot office, clothes and shoe shops and food shops. Here are some of the best-known shops that you can find in the High Street of a British town. Marks & Spencer is a large clothes and foo supermarket. Boots is another large shop that sells records, household goods, radios and hi-fi, and is also a chemist’s! Lloyds, Barclays are some of the names of British banks. You can change your money here.
Answer these questions
1. Can you buy stamps in a tobacconist’s in Britain?
2. Can you buy cigarettes in a supermarket?
3. Can you buy film in a chemist’s?
4. Can you buy a shirt at Marks & Spencer?
5. Can you buy eggs at Boots?
Are these statements TRUE or FALSE?
1. British shops are usually open at lunch time.
2. Children can’t buy cigarettes in Britain.
3. British people usually buy milk form a shop.
4. Marks & Spencer only sells food.
5. Barcalys is the name os a British bank.
KEY
1. No, I can’t.
2. Yes, I can.
3. Yes, I can.
4. Yes, I can.
5. No, I can’t.
1. True
2. True
3. False
4. False
5. True
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