A2 · Groceries and Daily Shopping
Shopping Without a Loyalty Card
- CEFR level:
- A2
- Sentences:
- 10
- Duration:
- 1 min
- Speakers:
- Emma & Tom
"Shopping Without a Loyalty Card" 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
I forgot my loyalty card today. Can I still get points?
- Line 2Tom 0:04
Yes. Do you have our store app on your phone?
- Line 3Emma 0:07
I do, but I haven't signed in recently.
- Line 4Tom 0:11
You can also enter the phone number on your account.
- Line 5Emma 0:13
That's easier. Where should I enter it?
- Line 6Tom 0:17
Use the keypad beside the card reader.
- Line 7Emma 0:19
Done. Has my account appeared?
- Line 8Tom 0:22
Yes, and you have a five-dollar reward available.
- Line 9Emma 0:26
Please use it toward today's shopping.
- Line 10Tom 0:28
Certainly. Your new total is twenty-eight dollars.
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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.
- loyalty /ˈlɔɪəlti/ noun
faithfulness or strong support
- still /stɪl/ adverb
continuing up to now
- points /pɔɪnts/ noun
ideas, details, score units, or exact places
- store /stɔr/ noun
a place where goods are sold
- app /æp/ noun
an application, especially as downloaded by a user to a mobile device
- recently /ˈrisəntli/ adverb
not long ago
- account /əˈkaʊnt/ noun
a record of financial transactions or a registered arrangement with a service
- easier /ˈiziɚ/ comparative adjective
less difficult
- use /juz/ (verb); /jus/ (noun) verb, noun
to do something with; the act of using
- appeared /əˈpɪrd/ verb
became visible or seemed to be true
- reward /rɪˈwɔrd/ noun/verb
something given for good work; to give it
- new /nu/ adjective
recently made, found, or started