A1 · Shopping and Payment
Buying a T-shirt
- CEFR level:
- A1
- Sentences:
- 8
- Duration:
- 1 min
- Speakers:
- Tom & Emma
"Buying a T-shirt" 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
I'm looking for a T-shirt.
- Line 2Emma 0:01
What color do you like?
- Line 3Tom 0:03
Do you have this in blue?
- Line 4Emma 0:05
Yes. What size do you need?
- Line 5Tom 0:08
I need a medium.
- Line 6Emma 0:10
Can you try this on?
- Line 7Tom 0:11
Sure. Where is the fitting room?
- Line 8Emma 0:14
It's over there.
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.
- looking /ˈlʊkɪŋ/ verb
present participle of look; watching or searching
- t-shirt /ˈtiˌʃɝt/ noun
a casual short-sleeved shirt
- color /ˈkʌlər/ noun
the visual quality of an object produced by light
- like /laɪk/ verb
to enjoy or approve of someone or something
- blue /blu/ adjective
of a color intermediate between green and violet
- size /saɪz/ noun/verb
how large or small something is
- need /nid/ verb
to require something
- medium /ˈmidiəm/ noun/adjective
a middle size, level, or means
- try /traɪ/ verb
to attempt to do something
- fitting /ˈfɪtɪŋ/ adjective
suitable for the situation
- room /rum/ noun
a space inside a building; space available