Unit 3 - Supermarket

Supermarkets are an important part of daily life in Britain. The biggest supermarkets sell 80% - that's food and drink. Tasco is the biggest. It's got nearly 2000 shops in Britain and is the third biggest supermarket in the world. Twoof them, Ascla and Tasco, are also the biggest sellers of clothes in Britain.
In the larger supermarkets you canbuy just about anything. On the shelves you can find all the food and drink you need. You can buy sports equipment, bicycles, books, toys and games, CDs and DVDs.

The big supermarkets are uusually on the edge of towns and most people drive to them This of course means that they can buy more and take it home in the car.

çthere are many more supermarkets now than w0 years ago. People find it very convenient to do all their shopping in one place.

It's even more convenient to shop from home. A lot of peeople now use online shoppin.
Tasco online delivers over 100000 orders each week in Britaind and Sainsbury's delivers 30000. It's becoming a very popular way to shop.

But not everyone likes supermarkets. Small shops in towns and villages are closing because supermarkets can sell the same things cheaper. So people without cars have less choice.

Many supermarkets are open 24hours a day and seven days aweek, so people can shop 24/7. But not on Sundays when shops can only open for five hours. That's enough for most people ! Butyou can still shop oline!

Soap operas in Britain

The most popular British soap operas are Eastenders and Coronation Street. Theses are popular dramas about the lives of ordinary people. There usually three to five episodes each week. Many people are addicted to soap operas. They even buy soap opera magazines. These cantain previews of the next week's shows.
Eastenders is set in the east end of London and has been broadcast since 1985. Coronation street is based in Manchester and it is the oldest soap. It was first on 1960.
Then there's Emmerdale witch takes place in a village in the Yorkshire countryside. It started on 1972 its on TV evert evening.


It is a part of a chapter of Coronation Street

unit 1 - SCOTLAND

There are four main regions in Britain. England, Northerm Ireland, Wales and Scotland.
Scotland is in the north of Britain. It's famous for its lakes. Scotland occupies on third of the land area of Britain but has got only nine per cent of the population. So there's plenty of Space. The majority of Scottish pople live in Edinburgh and Glasgow.

Although Scotland is a part of Britain it's got its own parliament, a different education system and different laws.
Scotland has also got its own traditions. For special occasions some Scottish men wear a kilt rather than trousers. The patterns are called tartans and each important family has got its own design.

The unusual insstrument known as the bagpipes is also a part of Scottish tradition.
Sport is very important in Scotland. There are lots of golf courses and each year in the Higlands there are Higland Games with some familiar events and some junusual ones.

Lots of famous things come from Scotland too. One of them is a drink - Scotch whisky- a strong spirit made from barley, yeastr and water. There are thousands of different whiskies.

Most Scotland's income is from tourism. Millions of visitors come each yaear. lots of peaple like also going to Loch Ness. People say there's a monstter there!