Conversation: Shopping for Fruit and Veggies

A customer buys vegetables and fruit at a market stall. Listen for quantities and polite requests: I’ll take four, please, a pound of…, What fruits are in season?

How to practise

1. Listen once without reading.
2. Listen again and read along.
3. Pause after each line and repeat it out loud.

Transcript

• Hello Denise, how are you?
• I’m good, how are you doing?
• All is going well.
• I’m just looking for some delicious veggies for my dinner tonight.
• What are you making?
• I’m going to make some vegetable soup.
• It’s a very simple recipe.
• Yum, I can help you with that.
• Great!
• I have some fresh tomatoes that were just picked this morning.
• Would you like some of them?
• Those look wonderful.
• I’ll take four, please.
• And do you have any green beans or peas?
• I have green beans this week.
• Would you like a pound of them?
• Yes.
• I think a pound will work.
• Here you go.
• What about some potatoes?
• Sure.
• I’ll take four red potatoes.
• I’ll also take some carrots.
• A full pound of carrots, please.
• Here you go.
• Anything else?
• What fruits are in season right now?
• My kids love the watermelon I got from you last week.
• I have more watermelons this week.
• I have more watermelons if you are interested.
• But I also have strawberries.
• They are perfectly sweet and delicious.
• I would love some.
• I’ll take two pounds, please.
• Is that everything?
• Yes.
• That will be $23.45.
• Here you go.
• Keep the change.
• Thank you. I’ll see you next week.
• Thank you. Bye.