WHAT'S IN A LABEL?

Do you read food labels? Reading food labels will make it much easier for you to compare food and find the food that has the nutritional value you need. It will help you to make healthy choices about the food you are buying and also to limit the amount of fat, sugar and cholesterol in your diet.

With this presentation you will learn about labelling within the food industry. You will know about the legal information which must be present on food products and the information which is optional.

FOOD ADDITIVES

Processed foods are not only fast to make but also don't go as quickly as fresh products. But how does processed food stay good for so long? It isn't magic; it's due to the additives and preservatives they contain! These additional ingredients make the food last longer and look better, but they also make us fatter, have high cholesterol, higher blood pressure and other significant side effects.

Did you find the video interesting? If you want to know something else about food additives you will find more information on the following presentation:

Mr. BEAN GOES SHOPPING

Mr. Bean takes his new credit card to a department store. He can't stand the cosmetics department, but manages to get through and continues his shopping.

Funny, isn't it? Now you can do the following exercises based on the video.

AT THE DEPARTMENT STORE

Let's imagine we are in a Department Store. Take a look at the different floors and departments. Which floor would you go to buy a bedsite table?

Have you ever been to a department store? Find some information about it and complete this research sheet:

DEPARTMENT STORES

Department stores are large shops divided into different departments, selling a great many kinds of goods, including clothing, furniture, home appliances, toys, cosmetics, gardening, toiletries, sporting goods, do it yourself, paint and hardware and additionally select other lines of products such as food, books, jewelry, electronic stationery, photographic equipment and baby and pet needs. Department stores are usually part of a retail chain of many stores situated around a country or several countries.

Harrods, in the UK, Macy's, in the USA or El Corte Inglés, in Spain are some of the most widely known department stores all over the world.

In the following video you have some information about the history of Harrods. How many questions can you answer?

• Where is it located?
• How many departments has it got?
• When was it established?
• What did it sell at the beginning?
• In which year did it burn to the ground?
• Who were among its most known customers?
• When did Harrods install the world's first escalator?
• How many customers visit the store on peak days?
• How many people work on the different Harrods stores nowadays?

The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is an annual parade which is held in New York City at 9:00 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day. The tradition started in 1924 and now it consists of a three-hour parade where you can find 50-foot ballons, floats, dancers, cheerleaders, performance groups,  clowns, marching bands and, of course, celebrity performers. Here you have a three-minute video of the Macy's 84th Thanksgiving Parade. Enjoy it!

Some of the most popular celebrities worldwide have appeared on the parade and also in some of Macy's TV commercials. Can you recognize someone in this one?

COMPARATIVES

Let's practice some comparisons. Watch the presentation below to review the rules of the comparative in English. Then, look at the examples and finally, make your own sentences  with the prompts given.

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A STORE

Sainsbury's is the third largest chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1869 and today operates over 1,000 stores and employs around 150,000 people. Let's watch a video to know what happens on a typical day at Sainsbury's. How many of the shops we have already learnt are mentioned in the video?

NAMES OF SHOPS

Here follows a photo-based English lesson covering vocabulary related to shops and shopping. It shows vocabulary for the different shops and the things they sell. The shops are grouped into different categories according to the word pattern they follow. The groups are:

• Shops with 's
• Shops that contain the term "shop"
• Other shops and services you can find in most towns.
• Terms that include the word "store"
• Terms containing the word "market"

Now watch the video and do the activities on it.

FIRST SHOPS

If you watch the following presentation, you will see what the first shops were like. It contains some explanations and pictures that will help you understand how people bought and sold things in the past.