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Unit 3 Reading & Listening Activities

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Reading 2 Choose the correct meaning for the
words and phrases: a or b.
1 high street (paragraph 1)
Shopping …
a an area in a modern town with lots of
thousands of years ago
shops
1 Shopping in ancient Rome was not very b the high part of a town
different from today. There was an area
with shops in the centre of town where you 2 peckish (paragraph 2)
could buy different products – a bit like the a poor
high street today. And there were also some b hungry
‘specialised’ streets where you could find 3 joints (paragraph 2)
shops that all sold the same type of product.
a pieces of meat
2 Each shop had a sign to tell people what
it was selling, and it had to clearly show its b restaurants
official licence to sell its particular kind of 4 splashed out (paragraph 4)
goods. Shops in the richer areas of the city a spent
had beautiful mosaics on the walls, with b celebrated
pictures of what they were selling. But there
were also shops for not-so-rich people. For Listening
example, if you were peckish but you didn’t
have much money, you could go to stores 1 3 Listen to a news report. Put these
that sold cheap food and drink. They were ideas in the order that you hear them.
the fast-food joints of ancient Rome! a There weren’t any games in it.
3 Slaves often worked as shop assistants. b Keep the money.
When there was a difficult situation, they c Bought a games console on
usually consulted with the shop owner – eBay.
like today, when a shop assistant refers an
d More than 65,000 euros
unhappy customer to the manager.
4 The government in ancient Rome was e British teenager.
very interested in regulating shops and trade. f They told the police.
The person responsible for this was called
the aedile. At the beginning of his career,
2 3 Listen again. Are the statements

Julius Caesar was a popular aedile. People true (T) or false (F)?
liked him because he splashed out a lot of 1 The boy is 16.
money on organising magnificent games for 2 He paid £95.
the common people. He lost almost all his 3 He received two games.
fortune as a result.
4 The boy and his parents were very
happy.
1 Read the text. Answer the questions. 5 The police contacted them.
1 What could you find in the centre of an 6 They will probably keep the money.
ancient Roman town? (paragraph 1)
2 Why did shops have signs?
(paragraph 2)
3 What type of modern person were
slaves like? (paragraph 3)
4 Why did Julius Caesar lose a lot of
money? (paragraph 4)

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