A1 · Shopping and Payment
Asking the Price
- CEFR level:
- A1
- Sentences:
- 8
- Duration:
- 1 min
- Speakers:
- Tom & Emma
"Asking the Price" is an A1-level English conversation about shopping and payment, 8 lines long (about 1 minute) between Tom & Emma. Read the full script below with the translation next to each line, then try speaking one of the roles out loud.
Dialogue script
Each entry shows the English sentence first, with the translation on the line below it. To practise speaking, cover the translation and repeat after the audio.
- Line 1Tom 0:00
How much is this shirt over here?
- Line 2Emma 0:02
It is twenty-four dollars today.
- Line 3Tom 0:04
Is there any discount this week?
- Line 4Emma 0:06
Yes, buy two and get ten percent off.
- Line 5Tom 0:10
I only need one right now.
- Line 6Emma 0:12
Then the price stays twenty-four.
- Line 7Tom 0:15
Okay, that still sounds fair.
- Line 8Emma 0:18
Let me know if you need another size.
Native audio, line-by-line recording and pronunciation scoring for this dialogue are in the EngTalk app.
Key vocabulary
Content words from this dialogue, ranked by the CEFR level at which they appear across the whole 500-dialogue library. Function words and proper nouns are excluded.
- discount /ˈdɪskaʊnt/ noun
a reduction in the usual price
- week /wik/ noun
a period of seven days
- buy /baɪ/ verb
to obtain something in exchange for payment
- percent /pɚˈsɛnt/ noun
one part in every hundred
- need /nid/ verb
to require something
- right /raɪt/ adjective/adverb/noun
correct; on the right side; a legal claim
- price /praɪs/ noun
the amount of money needed to buy something
- stays /steɪz/ plural noun; verb
visits or periods of remaining; remains
- still /stɪl/ adverb
continuing up to now
- sounds /saʊndz/ plural noun; verb
things heard; seems or makes noise
- fair /ˈfɛr/ adjective
reasonable and treating people equally
- know /noʊ/ verb
to have information, understanding, or familiarity