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  • Hi, I'm Vanessa from SpeakEnglishWithVanessa.com.

  • Would you like to go grocery shopping with me?

  • Let's do it.

  • Have you ever been grocery shopping?

  • Of course you have.

  • But have you ever been grocery shopping in an American grocery store?

  • Well, today I would like to invite you to join me and my young son, Freddie, as we go into this grocery store and pick up a couple things.

  • I will explain along the way.

  • Hopefully you will learn some useful vocabulary, some expressions, and hopefully I will not be too embarrassed to be filming in public.

  • And you'll be able to use this in your daily life and learn something about American culture.

  • And like always, I have created a free PDF worksheet that you can download with the link in the description with all of today's phrases, expressions, ideas, and at the bottom of the PDF question.

  • So don't forget to download that PDF and continue learning.

  • Never forget what you've learned today.

  • All right, let's go into the grocery store.

  • All right, first things first, we are going to go through the parking lot and get a cart.

  • I call this just a cart, but some people call it a shopping cart.

  • And here in the South where I live, people call it a buggy, a buggy.

  • Our first stop is the free fruit snack for kids.

  • This is Freddie's favorite thing to do in the grocery store, so I sure hope they have something for him.

  • Look at this, Freddie.

  • You want a banana?

  • Yeah?

  • Okay, can you open it?

  • Okay.

  • Maybe you need some help?

  • Wow.

  • Hold it down there.

  • Yummy.

  • All right, let's go get some stuff from the produce section.

  • Notice that I said the word produce section.

  • This just means where you can buy fruits and produce.

  • The emphasis is at the beginning, produce, produce.

  • There's another word, which is a verb, to produce something.

  • I produce one YouTube video every week.

  • Here the emphasis is at the end, produce.

  • I produce a video.

  • This is different than the produce section.

  • We're in the produce section right now, and let's see what's going to happen next.

  • Who knows?

  • It could be anything.

  • Should I get the single ones or should I get the bag?

  • Well, let's see.

  • There's 94 cents for this, and there's one, two, three, four, five, six in here for $5.

  • It's a better deal, but they're in a bag.

  • Look at this.

  • What do you think?

  • Should we get lemons?

  • Yeah, let's get some lemons.

  • When you're buying produce, you have two options.

  • You can buy loose produce, like the broccoli that I bought, or you can buy bagged produce, like the lemons that I bought, or here, like the potatoes.

  • Really, there are so many to choose from.

  • It's pretty unbelievable, the type of options that we have these days.

  • I feel so lucky to have these options.

  • As we go through the bulk section, where you can buy items in bulk, you'll see these bananas in a bag that are on sale.

  • I want you to know the difference between on sale and for sale.

  • These bananas are on sale.

  • That means there's a discount.

  • It's on sale.

  • But really, every item in the grocery store is for sale.

  • For sale means that you can buy it.

  • There's no special discount.

  • There's no special price.

  • It's just for sale.

  • Here we are at the deli counter.

  • At the deli counter, you can order freshly sliced lunch meat.

  • You might say, I'd like half a pound of cheddar cheese, please.

  • We decided to not order anything today because there was only one person working early in the morning and the wait was too long, but that's all right.

  • Let's move on to the next thing.

  • In the bakery, you can get some freshly baked donuts, bread, or cakes.

  • Because Freddie is turning two soon, at the end of March, we've been talking about cakes a lot or cupcakes.

  • Let's see.

  • What cake would you like for your birthday?

  • This one?

  • Yeah.

  • This one or this one?

  • This one.

  • This one?

  • This one.

  • This one?

  • Yeah.

  • This one?

  • Oh, the one with the cereal all over it?

  • That looks exciting.

  • You know what would be really good?

  • Yeah.

  • You get some hummus.

  • You want some hummus?

  • That's bell pepper hummus.

  • That's yummy.

  • Thank you.

  • In the grocery store, you have the option to get fresh fish or frozen fish, but watch out because usually the fresh fish has been previously frozen.

  • You can also get fresh cuts of meat or you can get prepackaged meat.

  • If you want to get a fresh cut of meat, you could say, I'd like two pounds of ground beef, please.

  • This is a really polite and common statement that you can use.

  • Now, I'm going down an aisle.

  • Notice this pronunciation.

  • Aisle.

  • The S is silent.

  • Go down an aisle.

  • Or you can say, it's on aisle three.

  • Great pronunciation.

  • All right.

  • We got to get some pretzels.

  • I want to get this kind.

  • You want to hold it?

  • Okay.

  • And I'm going to get this one.

  • That's our special snack.

  • That's our special snack.

  • We don't get many treats like chips and stuff, but pretzels.

  • I love pretzels.

  • Always got to get pretzels.

  • Yep.

  • I'm walking past a case of frozen meat and on the other side is an end cap.

  • An end cap is a shelf on the end of an aisle.

  • The chips are on the end cap.

  • We're going to get some poster board for Theo and for Freddie.

  • Okay.

  • You need some poster board too?

  • Is it down here?

  • Oh, let's go down here.

  • We need some poster board.

  • Oh, look at this.

  • Yes.

  • Next, I'm going to be walking to the dairy section.

  • The dairy section includes milk products like milk, yogurt, cheese, and also for some reason, eggs are included in this.

  • The dairy section is refrigerated.

  • There are refrigerated items in this section.

  • Let's take a look at this pronunciation.

  • Refrigerated.

  • That final T is going to sound like a D in American English because it's surrounded by vowels.

  • This is very common for American English.

  • I'm going to say the word again and I want you to try to say it with me.

  • Refrigerated.

  • Refrigerated.

  • I'm in the refrigerated section getting some refrigerated items.

  • I hope that this helps.

  • I know this word is tricky, but you can do it.

  • All right, let's go get yogurt.

  • Where's the yogurt?

  • That way.

  • That way.

  • That's right.

  • It's that way.

  • Do you think we need to buy any eggs?

  • We don't need to buy any eggs because our chickens make so many eggs.

  • We are looking for a plain whole milk yogurt.

  • Yogurt.

  • Vanilla.

  • Vanilla.

  • Vanilla.

  • I don't want vanilla yogurt.

  • Plain whole milk yogurt, but this is so expensive.

  • Do we need yogurt that bad, Freddie?

  • Yogurt.

  • Okay.

  • We need yogurt that bad?

  • Okay.

  • Now it's time for a little splurge.

  • A splurge is something you don't need.

  • Maybe it's a little too expensive, but you really want it.

  • I'm going to get some sparkling water with a little bit of fruit juice in it.

  • It's so tasty.

  • Let's talk a little bit about alcohol.

  • In the state where I live, North Carolina, you can buy wine and beer in the grocery store.

  • This is a very simple thing to do, but if you want to buy hard liquor, so this is considered like rum or vodka, you need to go to a special store called a liquor store.

  • Here in the South where I live, we call these an ABC store, but you need to go to this specialized store if you want to buy something else, not just wine and beer.

  • But for now, I'm not going to get any of it.

  • I need to get some more gardening gloves, believe it or not.

  • Yeah.

  • Mine have holes in all the fingers.

  • The point of gardening gloves is to keep your hand safe, but if they have holes in all the fingers, and this