Lifestyle in Britain. Дворжец О.С. - 83 стр.

many as a quarter of the shops in the high street are vacant. But high streets have
often survived by adapting. In larger towns, shops have tended to become either
more specialized or to sell especially cheap goods. Many have become charity
shops (selling second-hand items and staffed by volunteers) and discount stores.
Many of the central streets are now reserved for pedestrians, so that they are more
pleasant to be in.
     Even most small high streets still manage to have at least one representative of
the various kinds of conventional food shop (such as butcher, grocer, fishmonger,
greengrocer), which do well by selling more expensive luxury items. (Although the
middle classes use them, supermarkets have never been regarded as ‘smart’ or
fashionable places in which to shop).
     The survival of the high street has been helped by the fact that department
stores have been comparatively slow to move out of town. Almost every large
town or suburb has at least one of these. They are usually not chain stores and each
company runs a maximum of a few branches in the same region.


3 Jigsaw reading
The three profiles without titles below give more information on shopping and
various shops and on how goods are measured in Britain.
Divide into three groups
     Group A Read profile 1
     Group B Read profile 2
     Group C Read profile 3

3.1 Give your profile one of the titles below as you read:
     a Some well-known names.
     b How much do you want?
     c The corner shop.




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