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 groceries if you liked this video please

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again soon bye so to use some exist some 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