Listening - Shopping & Services

At The Restaurant
Description: A customer orders food and drinks at a restaurant and talks with the waitress.
Language: Present simple for ordering food and drinks, using polite requests and asking for preferences.
Category: Shopping & Services
Dialect: British English | Length: 1m 05s | Listening Number: 0L2
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Listening Quiz 1 - At The Restaurant

Shopping For Groceries
Description: Two friends talk about buying groceries at the market, including prices and quantities.
Language: Present simple for shopping vocabulary, quantities, and prices, using polite requests and amounts.
Category: Shopping & Services
Dialect: North American English | Length: 1m 44s | Listening Number: 0L5
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Listening Quiz 1 - Shopping For Groceries

Listening Quiz 2 - Shopping For Groceries 2

Getting A Coffee
Description: A conversation between a customer and barista at a coffee shop.
Language: Ordering food and drinks, making requests, asking about facilities.
Category: Shopping & Services
Dialect: North American English | Length: 1m 16s | Listening Number: 0L18
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Listening Quiz 1 - Getting A Coffee

Listening Quiz 2 - Getting A Coffee 2

Shopping for a Party
Description: Sophie and James discuss what clothes they need to buy for a party and make plans to go shopping.
Language: Talking about clothes, colours; expressing needs ("need"); making suggestions ("How about...?", "Shall we...?"); planning.
Category: Shopping & Services
Dialect: New Zealand & North American English | Length: 1m 51 | Listening Number: 0L24
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Listening Quiz 1 - Shopping for a Party

Listening Quiz 2 - Shopping for a Party 2

Making Apple Pie
Description: Two friends discuss what is needed to make an apple pie.
Language: Quantifiers - few, many, enough, a lot, etc.
Category: Shopping & Services
Dialect: North American / British English | Length: 1m 59s | Listening Number: 1L4
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Listening Quiz 1 - Making Apple Pie

Listening Quiz 2 - Making Apple Pie 2

At The Department Store
Description: Male customer assistant helping female customer with information about where to find things in a department store.
Language: Present and past simple, first conditional, basic modals.
Category: Shopping & Services
Dialect: North American English | Length: 2m 17s | Listening Number: 1L9
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Listening Quiz 1 - At The Department Store

Listening Quiz 2 - At The Department Store 2

Choices, Choices!
Description: Conversation between Janice and Stephen deciding which computer to buy.
Language: Comparing and constrasting, computer jargon, expressing preference, dislike.
Category: Shopping & Services
Dialect: North American English | Length: 2m 17s | Listening Number: 2L13
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Listening Quiz 1 - Choices, Choices!

Listening Quiz 2 - Choices, Choices! 2

Happy Hungry People
Description: Four people talk about where they like to eat.
Language: Adjectives.
Category: Shopping & Services
Dialect: North American English / UK English | Length: 3m 08s | Listening Number: 2L18
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Listening Quiz 1 - Happy Hungry People

Listening Quiz 2 - Happy Hungry People 2

Online Trouble
Description: A website customer calls online support to report a problem with the website.
Language: Problems with ordering online, internet vocabulary.
Category: Shopping & Services
Dialect: North American English | Length: 3m 19s | Listening Number: 3L4
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Listening Quiz 1 - Online Trouble

Listening Quiz 2 - Online Trouble 2

The Answering Machine Complaint
Description: A customer leaves a message of complaint on an answering machine.
Language: Complaints, personal details.
Category: Shopping & Services
Dialect: British English | Length: 3m 11s | Listening Number: 3L6
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Listening Quiz 1 - The Answering Machine Complaint

Listening Quiz 2 - The Answering Machine Complaint 2