A short time ago people used to go to various shops for different food and household items: the butcher, the baker, the greengrocer and delicatessen. Nowadays another kind of shops has appeared — the supermarket.

A supermarket is a very big shop. Usually people can buy food there. There are no shop-assistants, so when a customer goes into a supermarket, she (he) gets a metal trolley for holding the things she (he) wants.

When you have put your tins and boxes of food into the trolley, you take them to the checkout point and pay to the cashier. That is why you can buy essential goods as quickly as possible. Usually food in a supermarket is cheaper than in a small shop, because the manager has no assistant to pay.

What is a supermarket?

What does a customer get when he (she) enters a supermarket?

Where does a customer pay for the goods?

Are there shop-assistants in the supermarket?

Where are the goods cheaper, in supermarkets or in small

shops? Why?

19. Study the table.

Суфікси -ism, -ize, -ive, -ful, -less

20. Read the words and guess their meanings. Pay attention to the suffixes.