Lesson 13 - shopping

Grupo Básico Español – lección trece

Buenos días señores y señoras. Bienvenidos a la lección trece de la clase de español. Espero que no tengamos mala suerte.

Hoy, vamos ir de compras.

When we visit Spain, mostly we will shop in the supermarket, so we just wander around picking things up and then go to the check-out. There's no need to say anything more than “buenos días” to the cashier, stick your card in the reader and “adiós.”

So this chapter may be completely useless – but we're going to do it anyway!

We start with a video from Maria at Why Not Spanish?

Homework last week was to read pages 50-54, let's see if you have absorbed it.

Can you write down the Spanish word (and definite article) for the following:

Wine – el vino (vino blanco or vino tinto)

Ham – el jamón

Oil – el aceite (aceite de oliva is olive oil)

Milk – la leche (leche entera, leche semidescremada o leche descremada)

Bread – el pan, una barra de pan (S) pan de molde (LA)

Eggs – los huevos

Cheese – el queso

Biscuits – las galletas

Rice – el arroz

Potatoes – las patatas (las papas in Latin America)

Fruit and veg

Grapes – las uvas

Oranges – las naranjas

Apples – las manzanas

Bananas – los plátanos

Lemons – los limones

Lime – el limón verde

Onions – las cebollas

Garlic – el ajo

Lettuce – la lechuga

Carrots – las zanahorias

Cucumber – el pepinillo (watch that one)

Pepper – el pimiento

Quantities and containers

Jar - un bote (I’ve never heard it, must be Spanish)

Box – una caja

Tin – una lata

Packet – un paquete

Bag – una bolsa

Bottle – una botella

Loaf – una barra (I’ve never heard it, must be Spanish)

Litre – un litro

Kilo – un kilo

Bunch – una mano de plátanos pero un racimo de uvas

Take your verbs shopping with you:

Querer – to want. Don't forget: quiero means “I want”, quisiera means “I would like”

Tener – to have. ¿Tiene? - do you have?

Comprar – to buy/to shop. Hacer compras - to shop

Buscar – to search

Mirar – to look (solo estoy mirando, gracias – I am only looking, thanks)

Dar – to give (me da una barra de pan por favor – give me a loaf of bread please)

Decir – to say/to tell. ¿Me dice a cómo están las naranjas? o ¿Puedes decirme cuánto cuestan las naranjas?

Poner - to put. Ponme dos manzanas, por favor.

 We will learn some more during the lesson, but now let's go shopping. Pick an item from Lucy’s splendid hat and buy some at the shop. Be prepared for some additional questions …

Don’t forget our Spanish “don’t knows”.

Lo siento, no entiendo – I’m sorry, I don’t understand

No le entendí – I did not understand you

¿Qué dijiste? – what did you say?

¿Puede ayudarme, por favor? - can you help me please?

  

Half a kilo of grapes	Six cans of beer	A bottle of red wine and two bottles of white
Two loaves of bread	Two cartons of milk - one semi-skimmed, one whole	Half a dozen eggs
A packet of chocolate biscuits	A kilo of potatoes	A kilo of carrots
Two packets of biscuits	Six bags of crisps. Do they have cheese & onion flavour	Half a kilo of rice
Do you have cheddar cheese from England	Can I buy a jar of Marmite?	Two tins of sardines

One large watermelon	A tin of ham	Six onions and a cucumber
Two green peppers and a lettuce	A lettuce and six sweet tomatoes	A dozen eggs
Four pears and half a dozen apples	Four peaches	A bunch of grapes – about half a kilo

Five lemons and four limes

Two hot red peppers

A jar of coffee and a box of teabags