bakery
bread
fruit
vegetables
produce
groceries
meat department
meat
cashier
aisle
milk
shopping cart
buy buying bought
follow following
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9. At the Supermarket: Story
There is a little
fox (1) whose name is Doxy. Her family needs groceries so (2) Doxy
goes to the grocery store.
At the store, Doxy
gets a shopping cart. She goes down each aisle looking for (3) what she
wants to buy.
She gets some
hamburger (4) at the meat department. Then she goes to the bakery and buys
bread and doughnuts.
In the produce
department she buys some vegetables—carrots and lettuce (5). She also
picks up (6) some fruit—bananas and apples (7).
Doxy wants some milk but
can’t find it. (8) She asks a clerk (9), “Can you (10) show
me where the milk is?”
The clerk says, “Yes,
follow me.” Doxy follows him and he shows her the milk. She puts a gallon of
(11) milk in her shopping cart.
Next she goes to the
cashier to check out (12). The cashier adds up each item (13) in
Doxy’s cart.
It comes to (14) $5,439.21. Doxy thinks (15) it is too
much (16).
She asks the clerk to take
out (17) the apples. Now her bill (18) is only $4.52. Doxy is happy
and buys the groceries.
1) zorra
pequeña
2) de
modo que
3) desciende
cada pasillo buscando
4) consigue
hamburguesa
5) zanahorias
y lechuga
6) también
recoge
7) plátanos
y manzanas
8) no
puede encontrarla
9) pregunta
a un empleado
10) Puedes
11) mete
un galón de
12) pagar
y marcharse
13) suma cada
artículo
14) llega
a
15) piensa
16) demasiado
17) sacar
18) Ahora
su cuenta
9. At the Supermarket: Reading
Doxy is a little
fox (1) who lives with her mother and father in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Indianapolis is the capital of the state of Indiana and has a population of
829,718.
Today (2) Doxy’s family wants her to shop (3)
for groceries. Doxy goes to the grocery store. She likes (4) grocery
shopping.
Doxy gets a shopping
cart. She enters the store and says hello to some of her neighbors. (5) She
goes down each (6) aisle to find what (7) she wants to buy.
She goes to the meat
department and buys some hamburger. Next (8) she goes to the bakery. Here
she picks up (9) some bread and a dozen doughnuts.
In the produce
department she buys some fruit and vegetables. Doxy talks with (10) Fred
Johnson. He and his neighbor Georgia are Doxy’s good friends.
Doxy wants some milk
but she can’t find any. She goes up to a clerk (11), and asks him to
show her where the milk is.
The clerk is very
nice (12). He’s a raccoon (13). He asks her to follow him.
Doxy picks up two
gallons of whole milk (14) and puts it (15) in her shopping cart.
Finally Doxy goes to
the cashier to check out (16). The cashier adds up (17) everything
in Doxy’s cart.
The bill is too
much. (18) Doxy asks to see
the price of each item. (19) She discovers the apples (20) are
organic and from New Zealand. They are very expensive (21).
Roxy decides she
doesn’t want them after all (22) and asks the clerk to take them off
(23) her bill. Now the charge (24) is only $4.52. Doxy is happy. She
pays for the groceries and goes home.
1) zorra
pequeña
2) Hoy
3) quiere
que ella vaya de compras
4) le
gusta
5) algunos
de sus vecinos
6) desciende
cada
7) para
encontrar lo que
8) En
seguida
9) Aquí
recoge
10) habla
con
11) empleado
12) muy simpático
13) mapache
14) leche
entera
15) la
mete
16) pagar
y marcharse
17) suma
18) La cuenta
es demasiada
19) pide
ver los precios de cada artículo
20) descubre
que las manzanas
21) caras
22) después
de todo
23) quitarlas
24) Ahora
el precio/la tarifa
