Name: Grocery Store Vocabulary: shop in English
Uploaded: 2024-07-25T12:19:53.000Z
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Hi, I'm Vanessa from SpeakEnglishWithVanessa.com.

Would you like to go grocery shopping with me?

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.

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.

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.

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.

Here the emphasis is at the end, produce.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

What cake would you like for your birthday?

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.