A1 · 4 minutes · Food

Shopping for dinner

Anna and Marsha want to cook for friends, so Anna goes shopping with a list.

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What you’ll practise

Understand instructions and lists for shopping and cooking.

Words to know

ingredient: One of the foods you use to make a dish.
shopping list: A list of things to buy.
spend: To use time or money.

Words at this lesson’s level (A1)

At A1, you probably know about 94% of the words in this lesson.

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Word levels from the CEFR-J Wordlist 1.5 (Yukio Tono, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies); words not in it count as above B2. Your level is the one you chose in the level guide, otherwise the lesson’s.

Source

Dialogue and audio from “Lesson 35: Let’s Make Dinner!”, Let's Learn English Level 1, VOA Learning English. Public domain.

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