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Role play: "Survey of People's Shopping Habits"
Setting: Lecture room in the University of Trade Management.
Situation: A group of psychologists are invited to a students' class with a talk. They ask questions about
shopping habits to demonstrate the fact that people fall under different customer categories. Then they
analyse answers and decide which description fits every student best. Finally they report their results to the
class.
I. You are a Fun Shopper.
You enjoy it. You go shopping with your friends.
II. You are a Practical Shopper.
You get the best and the cheapest.
III. You are a Reluctant Shopper.
You hate doing it!
Find out:
whether they enjoy shopping and why/why not;
what things they like/hate to shop for the best/worst;
what kind of stores they like the most, why;
whether they like window-shopping, shopping around;
whether they enjoy looking for baigains;
what they think first about: the price, the quality, the name;
whether they take advice from shop assistants, friends, family, nobody;
whether they go shopping alone or with friends;
whether they spend their money on "things" or on entertainment;
if they had an unlimited supply of money, how they would spend it;
if they had less money and had to buy fewer things what they would stop buying.
Characters:
Card I — The head of the group of psychologists, who opens and closes the discussion.
Cards II—V
— Psychologists who ask questions and make conclusions.
Cards VI—XI
— Students who give answers to the questions.
WRITING
Exercise 1
Prepare to write a dictation, including the words in bold type from Introductory Reading and exercise 1
on page 150.
Exercise 2
Prepare to write a reproduction of the following text.
Shopping in London
Most of London's big department stores are in Oxford Street and Regent Street. They are always
crowded, but at sale times, in January and July, there are so many people that it is difficult to move and it is
usually safer to go in the direction of the majority!
These days, it is often difficult to distinguish the goods in one large store from those in another. If you are
looking for something "different" (but cannot afford the prices of Bond Street) it is certainly worth going to
New Covent Garden. This used to be England's biggest fruit and vegetable market, but a few years ago, the
market was moved to a new site on the other side of the River Thames. The old market, now called "New
Covent Garden", was restored and converted into a shoppimg centre. There are now more than forty shops of
many different kinds, and there are several places to eat and drink. The opening hours are different from
most other shops: they open at 10 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. As well as shopping, there is entertainment with
lunch-time theatre groups and classical, jazz, folk and pop music.
Kensington and Knightsbridge is an exclusive area of London. There you can find the department store
that is the symbol of expensive and high-class living — Harrods. People say
you can buy anything in
Harrods, including wild animals — they even have a zoo which will sell you lion cubs as well as more
common pets such as dogs, cats or parrots.
(from "Spotlights on Britain " by S. Sheerin, G. Seath, G. White)
Note:
A reproduction is a way of rendering a text as close to the original as possible. Preparing the students for
a reproduction, the teacher gives them new words and phrases from the text and explains their meanings.
They may be written on the blackboard or distributed on cards. The text may be read by the teacher or by the