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Unit
3 
Where will I fi nd it?
Ask students to look at the unit title and point out that, in a shop, 
Where will I fi nd X?
is an alternative way of saying Where is X?
Ask students to imagine they are in a supermarket and to 
suggest ways of completing the question, e.g. Where will I fi nd 
goat’s cheese? Where will I fi nd sausages?
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• Ask students to compete the list. If you are teaching a 
monolingual group in their own country, you can discuss 
and compare students’ lists. Similarly, if you are teaching a 
multilingual group in an English-speaking environment, you 
can discuss and compare shops in the town / city where you 
are working.
• Make sure students understand the meaning of department 
store
. Explain that it is a store with many departments, e.g. 
toys
, household goods, menswear. Ask students to name 
department stores in their country. Ask students to add to 
their lists whether the shops they would go to are specialist 
shops or department stores.
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1 Look at the example with the class. Make sure that students 
know what they have to do. Ask them to complete the 
exercise.
2 Look at the opening hours with the class. Ask students if 
these kinds of shops are open similar hours in their country. 
Ask students to complete the exercises.
3 Explain to students that the other major department stores in 
Britain are John Lewis and House of Fraser, and branches are 
found throughout the country. Selfridges is also a department 
store, but it is not found throughout the country.
Ask students if store guides in department stores in their 
country are in English as well as the native language. Ask 
students to complete the exercise.