Competence check: Unit 1–3 Read how different department stores were established. Some words are missing. Choose the correct word (A–M) for each gap (1–10). There are two extra words that you should not use. Write your answers in the boxes provided. The first one (0) has been done for you. The history of the department store The Hudson’s Bay Company in Canada was the first store to (0) departments. However, by modern standards, it would not be called a department store because of the size and range of items that were stocked6. The same can be said about Gostiny Dvor in St Petersburg, which was opened in 1785. It is one of the first shopping malls in the world because it (1) of more than 100 shops. The first true department store was created by Aristide Boucicaut in Paris. He (2) Le Bon Marché in 1838 and by 1852 it offered a lot of different goods in “departments” inside one building. As Le Bon Marché (3) into a big department store in the early 1850s, Delany’s New Mart opened in 1853 in Dublin, Ireland. What (4) Delany’s different from most department stores was that it did not grow from a smaller shop, but that it was (5) to be the biggest and best in Europe. The Clery family (6) both the store and Imperial Hotel in the late nineteenth century. In the 1916 Easter Rising the building was destroyed. However, the store (7) in 1922, this time across many floors. In 1846 Alexander Turney Stewart established the Marble Palace on east-Broadway in New York City. He (8) European goods at fixed prices and had a policy7 of “free entrance” to all customers. In the next decades, New York’s shopping centre (9) uptown and was called the “Ladies’ Mile.” In 1881, Joseph Hudson opened a small men’s clothing store in Detroit. After ten years he (10) eight stores in the Midwest and was the most successful clothing retailer8 in the country. In 1893 he began to build the biggest department store in the world. A 25-storey tower was added in 1928, and a 12-storey addition in 1946, giving the whole building an incredible size. Source: adapted and abridged from New World Encyclopedia, “The history of the department”, http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Department_ store A developed H designed B offered I bought C found J made D include K moved E founded L consisted F had M brought G reopened 0 D 6 1 7 2 8 3 9 4 10 5 6 to be stocked: to have a large amount of goods 7 policy: rule 8 retailer: a store / company / person that sells clothes Language i i I can form correct sentences with past tense forms. 3 Language 82 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verl gs öbv
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