Fixed Price Shop & Morality Shop The topic of today’s class is “Fixed-Price Shop & Morality Shop”. “Fixed-Price Shop & Morality Shop” is part of Class 7, English 1st Paper, Unit 4, Lesson 4 & 5.
Fixed Price Shop & Morality Shop
Lesson 4: Fixed price Shop
Read the text and answer the following questions.
Ms Shahana Huda is talking to the students about a new kind of shop.
Shahana: You can buy any stationery items here like pens, pencils, notebooks, colored paper, in fact everything you need, for writing and drawing. You can also buy some food items like biscuits, buns, bananas, bottles of mineral water and some other necessary things. You can also buy your school uniform and other clothes. There are a number of benefits of this shop. You don’t have to bargain or haggle with the shopkeeper over the prices of anything.
Hridoy: What is bargain or haggle, teacher?
Shahana: Suppose you want to buy a shirt or a dress in a shop in the market. You ask, “How much is this?” The shopkeeper says, “300 taka.” But in many cases, this price is more than the real price. So you offer 200 takas or even less. The shopkeeper says, “No, I can’t sell it for 200 taka.” Then you offer 225 taka and he may still say, “No, it’ll be a loss for me.”
This process of asking for and offering more and less money is called ‘bargaining’ or ‘haggling’. It goes on until you both (buyer and seller) agree on a price, say 250 taka in this case. This price is acceptable to both of you.
Sazia: If there is no bargaining, how are we going to buy things?
Shahana: You don’t need to bargain. It will be a fixed-price shop?
Questions
1 . Do you go shopping? Where is the shop?
2 . What do you usually buy?
3 . Do you bargain? Why do you do that?
4 . Do you know about a ‘Fixed-Price’ shop? Where is it? What does it sell?
Lesson 5: Morality Shop
Read the conversation to know more about the ‘Morality Shop’. Then answer the following questions.
Shahana: Today I’m going to tell you about a new kind of shop, where there will be no shopkeeper. The price of each item or thing will be written on a small Piece of paper. This price tag will be attached to the item or items. You will pick an item you like, look at the price tag, and put the money in the box kept there. And the thing is now yours. The students are not clear about this kind of shop. They know that a shop always has a shopkeeper. So they are confused.
Sheela: In that case, someone may take a thing and go away without paying.
Shahana: Nobody will do it. If anybody does, it will be stealing.
Ratul: Who’ll see them stealing?
Shahana: Conscience. Do you know what conscience is? OK. There is something in your mind called conscience. It tells you whether your actions are right or wrong. Is stealing a right thing or a wrong thing?
Students: Wrong thing.
Shahana: Then your conscience will tell you, “This is a wrong thing. You must not do it.” If you steal or do a bad thing, your conscience will prick you and trouble you. And you will never have your peace of mind. So to be a good and happy person, you should have a clear conscience.
Tick the best answer.
1 . “The students are confused.” The underlined words mean they
a. can think clearly.
b. cannot understand.
c . are unable to speak.
2 . When you buy a thing from a Morality Shop, you
- pay the money to the office.
- pay the money later.
- put the money in the shop.
3 . A person with a clear conscience
- usually does the wrong thing.
- always gets confused.
- always does the right thing.
B . Work in pairs. Ask and answer the following questions.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of a Morality Shop?
What kind of shop will you prefer fixed-price shop or a morality shop? Why?
C . In groups or pairs, discuss and choose the best answer to this question. Then say why you have chosen that answer.
Suppose you are alone in the schoolyard. Suddenly you find a hundred-taka note lying on the ground. What will you do?
I will
- pick up the money and hand it to the Headteacher.
- pick up the money and quickly put it in my pocket.
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