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10. She peeled off three ten pound notes and handed them to the cashier.
11. She had the right money, it just meant sorting her change out.
12. She had an inclination that the people behind her were becoming impatient.
13. She noticed their stack of items all lined and waiting, it seemed, for starters orders.
14. She felt a sense of relief to be away from the mass of people.
Exercise 12
Find the bit starting with the following words and explain why Jean was feeling that way
'Jean looked up quickly and ...'
'She gritted her teeth together ...'
'Jean looked again at her basket and began to feel ...'
'It was all such a performance.'
'She suddenly felt much better in the fresh air.'
Exercise 13
Speak about Jean's visit to the supermarket:
1. in the third person;
2. in the person of Jean herself;
3. in the person of the blonde woman;
4. in the person of the cashier.
Exercise 14
Discussion points.
1. What can you say about Jean as a person? Try to derive information from the minor details of her
behaviour.
2. Was parting with her friend a shocking experience for Jean or not?
3. What can you say about the two women?
4. Do you agree that one can always tell a person by their shopping?
5. Why does the story end with a question? What does it mean?
Exercise 15
I. Imagine that your mother gives you a shopping list, which you see below. Think in what shops you can
buy these things and put the names of items in the graphs of the chart.
a loaf of brown bread
1 kg of pork
1 large cod
a bottle of vinegar
1 kg of pork
2 medium-sized herrings
3 lemons
a tin of sardines in oil
0.3 kg of ham
2 kg of potatoes
1 small cabbage
a large chicken
a tin of condensed milk
biscuits
a bunch of radishes
a bag ofnour
a drum of margarine
a 0.5 kg pack of sour cream
0.5 kg of cheese
0.2 kg of butter
dairy
shop
butcher's
baker's
fishmong
er's
grocer's
greengroc
er's
II. Sum up what you have written and say what and where you can buy.