Amerilingua

Grocery Shopping

Category
General English, Speaking Lessons
Topic
Shopping
Media
Audio
Level
A2 Elementary, B1 Intermediate
Grammar
Mixed Grammar
Focus
Speaking, Vocabulary, Listening
Lesson ID
A2B1-3
Lesson Time
30 minutes
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Illustration depicting the process of buying groceries at a store and asking for help when looking for items in an English lesson.
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Lesson Description

Let’s go grocery shopping! In this lesson, students will learn how to buy groceries at a store and ask for help when looking for items. This lesson includes audio of two people communicating in a store and includes plenty of engaging discussion activities and worksheets. Students review and practice vocabulary relating to this topic. Also, students discuss different aspects of grocery shopping and share ideas on buying goods. The lesson activities have been developed for adult and teenage learners.

Lesson Objectives


  • To develop speaking and listening skills

  • To learn and use vocabulary relating to things you would find in a grocery store

  • To express own opinions and experiences associated with this topic


Audio

Listen to the audio of a man asking an employee for help at a grocery store. Are eggs, milk, bread, or fruit on your shopping list? I hope you are not a deer in headlights, like this customer, and can find your way down each aisle. Grab your shopping cart, and let’s go shopping!

Audio Transcript

Vocabulary and Pronunciation

shopping list [noun]: a list of purchases to be made
cashier [noun]: a person handling payments and receipts in a shop, bank, or business
supermarket [noun]: a large retail market that sells food and other household goods
bagger [noun]: a person whose job is to put customers’ purchases into bags at a supermarket or other store
credit card machine [noun]: device used to collect payments from customers who wish to pay by credit or debit card
shopping cart [noun]: a four-wheeled cart provided by a supermarket or other retail store for a customer’s use in collecting purchases
food groups [noun]: a collection of foods that share similar nutritional properties
dairy [adjective]: containing or made of milk; relating to milk, cream, butter, cheese, etc.
produce [noun]: of or relating to fruits and vegetables
coupon [noun]: a voucher that gives a discount off a particular product
free-range [adjective]: allowed to walk around and feed with relative freedom; of livestock or domestic poultry
half a dozen [idiom]: a group of six
a dozen [idiom]: a group of twelve
be a deer in headlights [idiom]: to be surprised, confused, or frightened so much that you cannot think or move
sell like hot cakes [idiom]: something is bought by many people
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