Unit 6: Going Shopping
Summary: Shops in My Town
Key points
- A town has many shops: bakery, jewellery shop, music shop, shoe shop, clothes shop, bookshop, toy shop.
- Each shop sells special goods: rings and necklaces at the jewellery shop, instruments at the music shop.
- Prepositions of place help us find a shop on a map.
- A sale means lower prices: 30% off, half price, special offer.
- We use the simple past to tell what we did last weekend.
Rules to remember
Prepositions of place
next to (at the side), opposite (on the other side of the street), between A and B (in the middle), behind (at the back), in front of.
Simple past
Regular: walk ➡️ walked, look ➡️ looked. Irregular: go ➡️ went, buy ➡️ bought, see ➡️ saw, choose ➡️ chose.
Negative
didn’t + base verb: He didn’t buy a guitar.
How to do it
- Find the shop on the map.
- Look at what is around it: on the side, across the street, at the back.
- Choose the preposition.
- Write: The … is next to / opposite / between … and …
Example
The jewellery shop is next to the bank. Last Saturday, Mum bought a silver necklace there.
Common mistakes
- *opposite of the café* ➡️ opposite the café
- *between the bank* ➡️ between the bank and the café
- *I buyed* ➡️ I bought
Key words
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