Welcome to a new episode of english vocabulary booster.
My name is lara and i'm a salsa certified english teacher.
Learning new vocabulary usually takes a long time, but we'll do it in a way that's easy, quick and efficient.
In every episode, we'll learn how to use five new english words or expressions so that you too, can start speaking like a native.
So let's get learning you guys.
What's up today we are going to be talking about vocabulary that we will need at the store.
Let's go.
I can't believe you finally got the house.
Oh sorry, it's my husband, hello.
Sorry to bother you.
I know you're with Carla.
I'm just, I'm almost done shopping, but I, I can't find the garlic.
I looked all over the place.
It's in the produce section, honey, with all the fruit and vegetables.
Oh, got it.
Oh, yeah.
I think I see it now.
Sorry about that.
That was my husband.
I asked him to go grocery shopping.
He never goes, so he's a bit lost.
Anyway, you were saying that... Hello?
Hey, honey.
So, here on the list, it says chicken, but I can only see beef.
It's in the poultry section.
Look to your left.
See it?
Oh, yeah.
Awesome.
Thanks.
Bye.
I mean, how hard can he be?
Seriously, he's got the list.
So you were telling me about the house.
Yeah, so we bought it a few weeks ago and Ethan was... What?
Hey, sweetie.
It's me again.
So I'm in the dairy section, but I can't find the yogurt I like.
That's because they don't sell it there.
I buy it somewhere else.
I'll get you some this week.
Oh, gotcha.
Okay.
Unbelievable.
Sorry, I think they ran out of cinnamon.
What aisle are you in?
Um, 10?
Where they keep all the flour and stuff?
Alright, turn the corner.
Look up.
Ah, there it is.
Thanks, babe.
Alright, I'm gonna go pay for all the stuff then.
Okay, I'll see you later.
Okay.
I think we're going to be fine now.
He's done shopping, so there's nothing else that could go wrong.
Okay, this is just getting ridiculous.
What could you possibly Honey?
I'm here at the checkout and I just realized I forgot my wallet at home.
Could you come by real quick?
Okay, so...
Just so you know.
I am aware that this is a stereotype.
You know where the husband goes to the store.
He doesn't know where things are.
But I just thought you know it was a good story.
Anyway, let's talk about today's vocabulary.
Let's begin with expression number one, produce.
It's in the produce section, honey.
What do you mean by produce?
Fruit and vegetables or snacks and cereal?
When you're talking about produce, you mean fruit and vegetables.
So really all the foods and other things that have been grown or produced on like a farm to be sold.
Does the store you go to have a nice selection of fresh produce?
Um, not really so.
I go to a store um, i live right above it, so it's really convenient for me.
That's why i go there.
It's called mercadona and it's one of the one of the most popular ones here in spain but i gotta say they don't have like, the stuff is really cheap, also because it's spain, But they don't have a great selection of fresh produce.
And so it's a little bit of a bummer.
But when I want to find something special, I know that I can go to a bunch of other stores and find what I like.
When do you go to the produce section?
As soon as you get to the store or before leaving it?
So I think in most stores the produce section is placed.
It's located either at the beginning of the store or at the end, to the other side of the store.
So you usually go either at the beginning or at the end.
And usually I like to go to the produce section as soon as I get to the store, because I find that's really the most.
Just like the most complicated part.
It's not complicated.
No, but you know, you gotta decide what fruit you want, what vegetables you want.
You gotta pick the right ones.
So that's a little bit more complicated than buying cereal, say.
So, but the thing is about Mercadona, at least the one that I go to is.
The produce section is right in the middle.
So I usually just go, you know, right in the middle of my shopping.
That's when I go to the produce section.
Expression number two, grocery shopping.
I asked him to go grocery shopping.
If you go grocery shopping, what will you buy?
Food or furniture?
If you go grocery shopping, you will buy food because groceries are food.
And what's the name of the grocery store you go to the most often?
Well, I've already told you it's Mercadona.
Again, it's not really a choice.
It's not my favorite, but it's the closest one.
I literally like it takes me two minutes to get there.
And I'm super thankful for it because, you know, I realized that I ran out of eggs.
Well, you just take the elevator and a couple minutes later, you're in the store shopping.
But yeah, not my favorite chain.
How often do you go grocery shopping?
Well first of all let me just say that I love grocery shopping.
I don't know why.
My boyfriend thinks that's really weird because he hates shopping.
But no I find it really relaxing.
Well except maybe for the produce section part.
No I'm kidding.
But I well usually I go once a week.
But if it's necessary, I'll you know.
Because it's the grocery store is so close, I'll just go really whenever I need something.
So it might be every other day sometimes.
Expression number three, poultry.
It's in the poultry section.
What is considered poultry?
Chicken or turkey?
Turkey.
Both.
So when you are talking about poultry, you're talking about the meat from like farm birds.
So things like, yeah, chicken, turkey, geese, these types of things.
What do you like to buy from the poultry section at your store?
I don't buy a lot from the poultry section or from the meat section in general.
My boyfriend and I have been trying to cut down on meat.
So yeah, I don't, we don't, sometimes we skip it all together.
I guess maybe, I don't know, like chicken thighs.
I kind of like...
But I'm just, I'm not really good at cooking chicken.
That's the thing, you guys.
If you're not good at cooking chicken, chicken tastes horrible.
It's just the consistency.
If you don't get it right, it's horrible.
So maybe that's why you don't eat it.
Expression number four, dairy.
So I'm in the dairy section, but I can't find the yogurt I like.
What products are considered dairy?
Products made from milk or products containing sugar?
If you are talking about dairy products, you are talking about products that are made from milk.
Can you name some dairy products?
Well, you got obviously milk, you got cheese or yogurt, you know, anything that contains milk.
Do you consume a lot of dairy products?
Uh, I mean, I'm Italian, so obviously I'm a huge fan of cheese um, but I think, all in all, not as much as I used to um, just because um, I had some issues with my cholesterol level, so I'm trying to cut down on dairy but um, you know, if I could eat dairy every day, I?
For every single meal, I would, to be honest with you.
Expression number five, the checkout.
Honey, I'm here at the checkout.
And what are you supposed to do when you're at the checkout?
Pay for your food or steal it.
When you're at the checkout, you should pay for your food, obviously.
The checkout is a place where you put all your food online. on the belt and then you pay for it.
Do you get nervous when you're waiting at the checkout?
I always get super nervous when I'm waiting at the checkout.
I feel like there are so many things that are outside of my control.
So, you know, like how fast is the line moving?
Is the person before me already put their stuff on the belt?
Am I going to have enough time to put everything on the belt without the person behind me getting angry?
Am I by myself?
Am I going to have time to bag all of my groceries and pay at the same time?
I don't like to keep people waiting.
So it just, it like stresses me out.
That moment stresses me out.
And when I'm by myself and I know that I have to do like you know, you have to do a lot of things when you're by yourself at the store because you have to put the stuff on the food, on the belt.
You have to bag it.
You have to, if you got a cart, you got to move it out of the way.
You got to pay.
You got to figure out if you have enough bags, right?
I know, I know.
That's a lot of stress.
So yes, I definitely get nervous when I'm at the checkout.
And that is it for today.
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