第5单元辅导--2007秋英语本科专业教学资源整合.docVIP

第5单元辅导（1） More practice with the videovideo 5 Shops and a Community Leisure Education Centre Focus questions for text 1 How many different sorts of shop do we talk about? Text 1 In the 19th century Britain was known as a nation of shopkeepers, and in the 20th century one of our best-known prime ministers - Margaret Thatcher - came from a family of shopkeepers. The old shop system was simple: a village or town would have a high street and there you would find all the different shops that you needed - the butcher’s, the baker’s, the candle-stick makers as the old nursery rhyme says. Each shop would be separate from the others. This is still true of many high streets today. However, as the nation’s prosperity increased and ordinary people had more and more money to spend on goods, so the size and the type of shop changed. First came the big department stores. A department store is one large shop which has many different departments on different floors, each department selling a different range of goods: clothes on one floor, furniture on another, electrical goods on another and so on. The department store remained on the high street amongst all the other smaller shops. The old grocery shops became supermarkets. Supermarkets mostly sell food. Another development still in the centre of town was the Shopping Arcade or Shopping Mall. With this development, many of the old shops were pulled down and one big complex was built on several levels and including dozens, even hundreds of different shops. Other kinds of cheap marketing were always available in street markets like this one. You will notice that the stallholders all shout to the public to advertise what they are selling. They are crying their wares to use an old expression. These developments all maintained the centre of the town as the shopping centre. However, in recent times another development has taken place: out-of-town shopping in huge warehouses which are sometimes called hypermarkets - that is, even bigge