A1Shopping8 min
An announcement for shoppers
Listen to an announcement for shoppers in a busy supermarket.
Before you listen
You are shopping for food on a Saturday afternoon. Suddenly you hear a voice from the speakers in the shop. Listen to the announcement.
- shoppernoun
- a person who is buying things in a shopThe market is full of shoppers on Saturday.
- kilonoun
- a kilogram, one thousand gramsI need a kilo of potatoes.
- half pricephrase
- for fifty per cent of the normal priceThese shoes are half price this week.
- information desknoun
- a place in a shop or station where people answer your questionsAsk at the information desk for a map.
Listen · 0:43
Good afternoon, shoppers
Show the transcript (try the questions first)
Good afternoon, shoppers, and welcome to Hillview Supermarket. Today we have some great prices for you.
Apples are only one pound a kilo. Fresh bread from our bakery is half price after four o'clock. And all orange juice is two for three pounds.
Please visit our new coffee corner on the first floor, next to the books and magazines. It's open from nine in the morning to six in the evening.
Did you lose a blue umbrella? Please come to the information desk near the main door.
The supermarket closes at eight o'clock tonight. Thank you for shopping with us.
Exercise 1 of 2
Understand the announcement
Listen to the announcement. Choose the correct answer.
Exercise 2 of 2
Listen for details
Listen again. Type one word or number in each gap.
The fresh bread comes from the shop's .
The coffee corner is next to the books and .
The coffee corner opens at in the morning.
The coffee corner closes at in the evening.
Tonight the supermarket closes at o'clock.
Source
Original script by Joy English, read by open-source text-to-speech voices (Kokoro-82M, Apache-2.0).
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