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Learn English in the Supermarket 🛒🍎 Comprehensible Input

English shadowing practice · 325 sentences · 16:04 long · 1691 words

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This page turns the YouTube video “Learn English in the Supermarket 🛒🍎 Comprehensible Input” into an English shadowing exercise. The recording is split into 325 short sentences that you can play one at a time, repeat after the speaker and record your own version for automatic pronunciation scoring.

The speaker talks at about 120 words per minute, a moderate pace, with an average of 5.2 words per sentence. That makes it suitable for intermediate learners who want natural, everyday speech.

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Transcript (English)

0:00 Hello. We are in the supermarket and
0:02 learning English.
0:07 >> [music]
0:17 >> Ah, toilet roll.
0:23 I am walking down the aisle. There are
0:26 shelves.
0:27 On the shelves, there are items, things,
0:31 stuff.
0:33 Let's get some stuff.
0:35 So, Chang is shopping for some
0:37 deodorant.
0:39 We say deodorant, three syllables.
0:42 Chang is rubbing the deodorant on my
0:45 armpit because I'm smelly. These are
0:48 roll-on deodorants and they are on sale.
0:52 This is a promotion.
0:55 A promotion is when something is cheaper
0:58 than normal. They're on sale. The next
1:00 thing on our list is kitchen roll.
1:07 This is a multi-pack of kitchen roll.
1:13 Kitchen roll is for the kitchen and
1:17 toilet roll
1:18 is for
1:20 Well, you tell me. Ooh, this is useful.
1:24 So, guys, this is a shopping basket.
1:28 It's called a basket because it has a
1:31 handle and I carry it.
1:33 And this is a trolley.
1:36 Or in America, they would say a shopping
1:38 cart, a shopping cart. In England, we
1:41 say a trolley and you push the trolley
1:44 on its wheels. Now, we are going to pay
1:48 for our items and then go get some food.
1:50 Chang is going back.
1:53 We've just done part one of the shop.
1:55 We've just paid at the checkout
1:57 counters. We've got our items for home
2:01 in these plastic bags.
2:03 Now,
2:04 I'm getting hungry. Are you hungry?
2:07 Yeah, always hungry.
2:09 This is the restaurant side. Chang is
2:12 flicking through the menu. Hmm, do we
2:14 want to eat here?
2:17 Okay.
2:29 I've got a white shirt on and we're
2:30 about to eat. So, I've been asked if I'd
2:32 like an apron. Yes.
2:35 Thank you. All right, guys, this is an
2:37 apron and you use it to
2:41 not get food on yourself.
2:44 I'm going to wear my apron.
2:47 Thumbs going in.
2:50 All right.
2:52 Feel like a kid again. Korean
2:55 number one soju.
2:57 If you're Korean and and watching this,
2:59 then
3:00 thank you. Wow.
3:05 My soup is absolutely bubbling.
3:08 Looks like a witch's cauldron.
3:11 If I drink that or eat that, I will
3:12 scald my tongue
3:15 Okay, Chang's food's arriving.
3:17 Wow, that is insanely hot. All right,
3:19 guys, I've got my apron on. I'm ready.
3:22 We have our Korean banquet, our buffet,
3:24 our food.
3:26 We have some
3:27 tofu seafood soup, a plate of kimchi,
3:33 we have some
3:34 bean sprouts,
3:36 some mashed potato, it looks like,
3:40 and some sweet potato noodles with red,
3:44 green, and yellow pepper.
3:47 I'm holding a ladle for the soup.
3:50 This is a kimbap. Looks delicious. Let's
3:53 dig in. One more language point before
3:55 we eat. When something is really,
3:57 really, really hot, a liquid, we can say
4:00 it's piping. It's piping hot. You can
4:03 also say it's steaming hot.
4:06 This is absolutely piping, so I'm not
4:08 going to eat it yet. I think I'll take
4:10 my chopsticks
4:12 and take a piece of kimchi, fermented
4:15 cabbage.
4:22 This food is delicious. What do you
4:25 think?
4:26 Yeah, it is.
4:29 Time to pay.
4:33 Going up the escalator.
4:36 Ooh.
4:37 What's this?
4:40 A man texting.
4:43 A family chatting.
4:47 Two Grab drivers waiting.
4:55 Now, my friends, we are doing a food
4:58 shop. A food shop is a UK term for a
5:02 grocery shop. We're getting our food for
5:04 the week.
5:05 Ooh.
5:06 Eggs.
5:09 Ah.
5:10 A box of a dozen eggs.
5:13 A dozen is 12.
5:16 This is the dairy section.
5:20 These products are in the fridge because
5:23 they are made from milk. I need
5:27 some Greek yogurt.
5:29 Ooh.
5:33 Pines.
5:37 Tomato ketchup. Next, I need pasta, but
5:40 we've got a traffic jam.
5:43 Can I get through?
5:45 Excuse me.
5:47 Come on. Thank you.
5:50 I made it through the traffic jam
5:52 to be met by
5:53 another traffic jam.
5:55 But, pasta.
5:57 Box of
5:58 pasta.
6:02 Pasta sauce. Hmm.
6:07 Ooh. An offer.
6:10 Oatside oat milk.
6:13 This milk is on offer. It's discounted.
6:18 This oat milk was pretty cheap.
6:22 Cheap in English can have a negative
6:24 meaning, a negative connotation.
6:27 It's better to say it's a bargain, it's
6:31 a steal, or a good deal.
6:33 It sounds more positive.
6:40 Look at this, guys. Mental.
6:43 >> [laughter]
6:43 >> It's bigger than you.
6:47 Looks stylish. What do you think of
6:48 Chang's new handbag?
6:50 >> [laughter]
6:52 >> Stylish.
6:58 La vache qui rit.
7:00 That's French and it means the cow that
7:03 laughs or the laughing cow.
7:06 I actually became fluent in French using
7:11 the methods I use to teach you English.
7:14 You're here with me because you want to
7:17 learn real-life English and become
7:20 fluent.
7:21 Watching videos like this one is the
7:24 best way to do that. You learn words
7:27 naturally and in context.
7:30 This is a carton of peach juice.
7:34 I am only 1 week away from launching
7:38 Sprouts, the platform where you learn
7:41 English using videos just like this one.
7:50 I'm very excited about this, guys, and
7:53 I'm also excited to share with you,
7:56 my loyal YouTube following, a special
7:59 surprise
8:01 next Sunday.
8:05 Well, I'm very excited for Sprouts.
8:09 I'm also excited for
8:16 >> [music]
8:20 >> a bag of
8:22 blueberries.
8:25 Delicious.
8:26 At the end of the aisles, there are
8:29 signs. The sign is above me. The signs
8:33 tell us where certain items in the
8:35 supermarkets are.
8:38 So, this sign says confectionery.
8:41 Confectionery is like chocolates and
8:44 sweets.
8:46 All right, guys, Chang has taken the
8:48 shopping trolley. I'm free. So,
8:52 I can teach you. All right, this is
8:55 a packet of cookies or packet of
8:58 biscuits, as we commonly say in England.
9:02 Over here,
9:03 we have crackers, Ritz crackers. What's
9:08 the difference between biscuits and
9:11 crackers? Well,
9:13 biscuits are sweet.
9:16 Crackers are savory. Savory is the
9:19 opposite of sweet.
9:22 Got it?
9:23 Good. All right, guys, I'm on a mission
9:26 to find the people who work in the
9:28 supermarkets. They are called the staff
9:31 and I think I've found
9:32 Here is the staff.
9:36 Now,
9:37 what do the staff do? Well, let me show
9:40 you.
9:41 These are the shelves and the staff
9:44 stock the shelves with items.
9:49 They also work at the
9:51 checkout counters.
9:53 I've lost Chang and I always get a bit
9:57 weird when I'm on my own.

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Learn English in the Supermarket 🛒🍎 Comprehensible Input

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