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Unit 3  Reading & Listening Activities 

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Reading 2 Find words and phrases in the text
which mean the same as:
1 an area in a modern town with
Shopping … lots of stores (paragraph 1)
thousands of years ago
1 Shopping in ancient Rome was not very 2 hungry (paragraph 2)
different from today. There was an area with
stores in the center of town where you could
3 restaurants (paragraph 2)
buy different products – a bit like downtown
today. And there were also some “specialized”
streets where you could find stores that all 4 commerce (paragraph 4)
sold the same type of product.
2 Each store had a sign to tell people what 3 spent (paragraph 4)
it was selling, and it had to clearly show its
official license to sell its particular kind of
goods. Stores in the richer areas of the city 3 How many famous Roman monuments
had beautiful mosaics on the walls, with can you name in Italy? And in your own
pictures of what they were selling. But there country?
were also stores for not-so-rich people. For
example, if you were peckish but you didn’t Listening
have much money, you could go to stores
that sold cheap food and drink. They were 1 You are going to listen to a news report.
the fast-food joints of ancient Rome! The following words appear in the
3 Slaves often worked as salespeople. When report. What do you think it is about?
there was a difficult situation, they usually British teenager surprise games console
consulted with the store owner – like today, more than 65,000 dollars police
when a salesperson refers an unhappy
customer to the manager. 2 3 Listen and check your answers.
4 The government in ancient Rome was
very interested in regulating stores and trade. 3 3 Listen again and complete
The person responsible for this was called the sentences with a word or short
the aedile. At the beginning of his career, sentence.
Julius Caesar was a popular aedile. People 1 The boy bought the games console on
liked him because he splashed out a lot of  .
money on organizing magnificent games for
2 The boy paid
the common people. He lost almost all his
for the console.
fortune as a result.
3 When the box arrived, it contained the
console and  .
1 Read the text. Answer the questions in 4 At first, the boy and his family weren’t
your own words. happy – they were and
1 What two types of shopping areas they contacted  .
were there in ancient Rome? 5 The police want to find
2 Who did stores sell to? of the money.
3 Was Julius Caesar good with money? 6 If the police don’t find the owner, the
Why/Why not? boy  .
4 What are four similarities between
shopping in ancient Rome and today?

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