SPEAKING Complete the questions with the past participle of the verb. The story of the ice cream sellers GEORGE GEC Have you ever (buy) or (sell) anything on eBay or a similar…

SPEAKING Complete the questions with the past participle of the verb. The story of the ice cream sellers GEORGE GEC Have you ever (buy) or (sell) anything on eBay or a similar website? What did you buy or sell? 2 Have you ever (buy) something online and had a problem with it? What was it? What did you do? 3 Have you ever (get) to the supermarket checkout and then found you didn't have enough money? What did you do? 4 Have you ever (lose) a bank card? Where did you lose it? Did you get it back? 5 Have you ever (try) to take something back to a shop without the receipt? Did they change it? 6 Have you ever (have) an argument with a shop assistant? What was it about? Have you ever noticed that you often find the same kinds of shops together in the same street? Why are they together? Economics gives us one explanation... Imagine a beach a kilometre long, full of sunbathers. The sun is shining, the sea is warm.An ice cream seller called George arrives. Where does he put his ice cream cart? Obviously,1_ __, where the sunbathers can easily walk to him and buy an ice cream. Later that day, a second ice cream seller, Georgina, arrives. George and Georgina talk for a while and decide that the best solution is this:2 and they each put their ice cream cart in the middle of their half. b Ask other students question 1. Try to find somebody who says Yes, I have. Then ask them the past simple questions.Do the same for questions 2-6. 5 READING Read the introduction to the article. Are there any areas with a lot of the same kinds of shops where you live? In zone A of the beach the customers go to George, and in zone B they go to Georgina. This is good for the customers, because nobody needs to walk more than 250 metres for an ice cream. But George isn't happy - he only has 50% of the customers that he had before. So 3 Look at the four pictures of ice cream sellers on O beach. Which situation do you think is best for the customers? Why? Read the article and check your answer to b. Read the article again and complete the paragraphs with phrases A-D. A she moves to the middle of the beach, too B he puts it in the middle of the beach C they divide the beach into two halves, A and B D he goes back to the middlle of the beach Look at the sentence from the article. What's the singular of the highlighted noun? What's the plural of the nouns in the list? They divide the beach into two halves Zone Ais now bigger than zone B, and George has more customers and makes more money, but some of his customers need to walk 500 metres to get their ice cream. Of course, Georgina sces what George has done, and now she isn't happy -she's going to lose money. So and gets 50% of the customers again. leaf life knife shelf wife Do you think it's a good or bad thing to have similar shops near each other? Have you ever travelled a long way to go to a shop? Why? How far did you travel? The result is this: George and Georgina end up next to each other. They both get 50% of the customers. More customers need to walk further for an ice cream. So what's good for businesses isn't always good for customers. 33