10 English Words to Use at the Supermarket
hi everybody and welcome back to top
words my name is Alisha and today we’re
gonna talk about ten words that you can
use at the supermarket so let’s go
basket the first word is basket basket
basket is the usually plastic or
sometimes metal basket you carry on your
arm are you carry with your hand that
you put items in at the supermarket in a
sentence pick up a basket shopping cart
the next expression is shopping cart
shopping cart is like a big basket you
can push it it’s a cart that you use to
put your shopping in your items in in a
sentence I don’t need a shopping cart on
sale the next expression is on sale on
sale when an item is on sale it means
it’s at a cheaper price it’s at a
discount this can be a price discount
this can be a percentage discount so for
example there are items let’s see on
sale 30% off or on sale for five dollars
for example in a sentence hey maple
syrup is on sale but maple syrup the
other day that’s why that’s that
examples in this one two four one two
four one two four one is a type of
bargain a type of discount to two items
so if I have two water bottles for
example I buy two water bottles for the
price of one water bottle so this means
I can have two items at the price of
just one item so that’s what this type
of bargain this type of sale means in a
sentence there’s a two-for-one deal on
this ice cream
buy one get one free the next expression
is buy one get one free buy one get one
free actually is the same thing as
two-for-one when you think about it so
buy one item get one item the same item
free in if the FE item is the same item
then yes it’s it’s the same as a
two-for-one but you buy one item you get
same item or equivalent item for free so
you might see a buy one get one free
sale in a sentence pasta sauces buy one
get one free per pound the next
expression is something something per
pound or in your country it might be per
kilogram or per ounce for example so but
the key here is a unit of measurement a
unit of weight in this expression so
some items in a supermarket you purchase
you buy according to how much they weigh
according to their weight so if you want
to buy cereal for example you can
measure like maybe a pound of cereal or
a kilogram of cereal and then the amount
the weight of the product equals a price
so for example if something is $1.00 per
pound and you buy 5 pounds of potatoes
for example that means it’s 5 dollars so
this is an expression that shows how
much something costs according to weight
in a supermarket you also might see a
price with a slash mark before the unit
of measurement this slash mark is read
per something something per pound per
kilogram and so on in a sentence
potatoes are 3 dollars per pound
groceries the next word is groceries
groceries you might also hear this in
the word grocery store groceries just
means food products any food products
are groceries or food and maybe you can
include everyday life products here too
like paper towels I suppose but usually
people associate usually people
understand groceries to mean food
products so that’s why we sometimes call
supermarkets grocery stores as well in a
sentence I need to buy some groceries
frozen meals the next expression is
frozen meals so frozen meals or maybe a
popular a common way to to prepare a
meal usually they are found in the
freezer section of a supermarket or the
freezer section of a grocery store these
are meal
which are pre-prepared so they are
prepared and frozen in a box and you can
choose one meal in a box and take it
home heat it up in your oven or your
microwave we call these frozen meals so
it’s one meal complete meal in theory in
a box and you can eat it later after you
heat it up in a sentence I rarely buy
frozen meals that’s true to check out
the next expression is to check out to
check out means to pay it means to
finish your shopping so to check out we
sometimes say let’s check out at the
register or now actually in a lot of
different supermarkets there’s a machine
called the self checkout self checkout
means there’s no staff person there’s no
one helping at the register it’s just
you and a machine you scan your items
pay and finish so that’s a self checkout
but the verb we use is to check out in a
sentence I’m done let’s check out to use
a coupon the next expression is to use a
coupon to use a coupon for pronunciation
I say coupon you might hear some people
say coupon as well I’ve heard coupon and
coupon I say coupon do you say coupon or
complete coupon yeah I prefer coupon you
prefer coupon we’re gonna go with coupon
but you might hear coupon to use a
coupon means you have a usually a small
piece of paper or maybe these days it’s
something like I don’t know you can get
coupons on your phone now yeah coupon
gets you a discount you get a discounted
price or you get maybe a buy one get one
free deal something like that so in a
sentence I want to use this coupon
please alright that’s the end alright so
those are 10 words that you can use in
the supermarket I hope that those helped
you the next time you go shopping for
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of the words we use maybe you have
coupon let’s see it says potatoes are on
sale for one dollar a pound
instead of three dollars a pound