[Listening Medium] Grocery Shopping

Pre-Listening Exercise

Where do you or your family go grocery shopping on a regular basis? What are typical things you buy and how much does your family spend on groceries per week? (Ask your family if you don’t know.) Do you ever collect supermarket coupons to buy food at a discount?

Idioms

buy into” = believe an idea
Unfortunately, a lot of young people buy into the idea that they have to wear expensive clothes to be popular.”

eat your words” = admit that you are wrong
My roommate said I couldn’t cook, but now he’ll have to eat his words because I made this complete dinner by myself.”

Script (only click after finishing the exercise below)

Listening Exercise

A. Listen to the recording and answer the questions.