A2 · Groceries and Daily Shopping
Asking About a Special Offer
- CEFR level:
- A2
- Sentences:
- 10
- Duration:
- 1 min
- Speakers:
- Emma & Tom
"Asking About a Special Offer" is an A2-level English conversation about groceries and daily shopping, 10 lines long (about 1 minute) between Emma & Tom. 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 1Emma 0:00
Does this sign mean the juice is half price?
- Line 2Tom 0:03
Only the second bottle is half price.
- Line 3Emma 0:05
Do both bottles need to be the same flavor?
- Line 4Tom 0:08
No, you can choose any two from this shelf.
- Line 5Emma 0:12
Great. I'll get orange and apple.
- Line 6Tom 0:14
Make sure they're the same size for the offer.
- Line 7Emma 0:17
This apple juice is smaller than the orange one.
- Line 8Tom 0:20
The larger bottles are on the bottom shelf.
- Line 9Emma 0:23
I see them. Now both are one liter.
- Line 10Tom 0:27
Perfect. The discount will appear at checkout.
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.
- sign /saɪn/ noun/verb
a notice, symbol, or gesture; to write one's name
- mean /min/ verb
to signify, intend, or be important
- half /hæf/ noun
one of two equal parts
- price /praɪs/ noun
the amount of money needed to buy something
- second /ˈsɛkənd/ adjective
coming after the first
- same /seɪm/ adjective
not different; identical
- choose /tʃuz/ verb
to pick or decide on one option from alternatives
- make /meɪk/ verb
to create, produce, or cause
- offer /ˈɔfər/ verb
to say that you are willing to give or do something.
- smaller /ˈsmɔlər/ comparative adjective
less large
- appear /əˈpɪr/ verb
to become visible; to seem
- checkout /ˈtʃɛkˌaʊt/ noun
the place where you pay in a store or the process of paying