❤️ Text 5 Markets and Shops in Britain

London has its famous shops and big stores. But its street

markets are the really interesting places.

In Portobello Road theysell old things - old, but interesting. It is a collectors' market. Look at the people. Is that old man a collector? Yes. He has a collection of old matchboxes. This is the market for him: there are old matchboxes in two or three of the shops. is this young woman a collector? No, but her mother has a collection of old pictures from China. Portobello Road is the place for them.

Petticoat Lane, in the City, is the Cockney market. Go there on a Sunday morning, and perhaps you can see a Pearly King and Pearly Queen, The Cockneys of Petticoat Lane sell new things. Perhaps you don't really want those things, but the Cockneys in Petticoat Lane can sell them to you!

Covent Garden is famous. But the very old fruit and vegetable market is not there now. The big trucks take the fruit and the vegetables to a new market near the Thames, Without the trucks and the market, Covent Garden is a different place. But it is a busy place. It has new shops and cafés. You can sit at a café table and listen to music. You can meet friends and sit in the sun - or sit out of the rain in the old market buildings.

So you know about markets in London. But have you ever heard about specialist shops? There are such in Norwich. Norwich is the most important city of East Anglia and of course it has a large shopping centre for the rural area surrounding it. It also has to cater for the tourists who are attracted to the city by such fcatures as the cathedral, museums and castle

Unlike many cities, where small specialist shops have gradually been replaced by large department stores and supermarkets, Norwich still has a wide variety of shops.

One ofthe most unusual must he the Mustard Shop. As its name suggests, it sells nothing but mustard, and there are as many different kinds as it is possible to imagine, It has a mustard museum, which describes the history of Colman's mustard. The Colmans were a famous Norwich family who started a mustard-making business over 150 years ago.

Then there is the outdoor market, with its multi-coloured stall-covers, where you can buy everything from books to bananas.

rural ['rural] - сельский, деревенский cater ['keitə] - угождать, стараться угодить, доставить

удовольствие

variety [və'rarətı] - разнообразие mustard ['mastəd] - горчица multi-coloured | maltr'kaləd] - цветной, многокрасочный store [sta:] - магазин; stores - универмаг

1. Answer the questions:

1. Do you like to go shopping? Why?

2. With whom do you usually go shopping?

3. What kind of shops do you like to visit?

4. What's the difference between London's and Moscow's

markets?

5. Do you think markets are necessary in big cities?

6. Do you like to go shopping in other cities? Why?

7. When did you go to the shop for the last time? What

have you bought?