A trip to the supermarket sounds easy, but the checkout moves fast. The cashier asks three or four quick questions, often in a reduced, friendly way, and there's a queue behind you. Learners often translate directly and say "I want to pay with the card" or "Give me the bill" when they mean the receipt. In this episode: • How to use this lab • The scene • Check the details • Decode prices and weak forms • Shadowing • Practice • Self-check questions with answers Key phrases from this episode: a list — a shopping list an aisle (AYL; the S is silent) — a long passage between shelves the bakery section — the part with bread and cakes the reduced section — food with lower prices, often near its date a trolley — a big metal cart for shopping a basket — a small one you carry the checkout — where you pay the self-checkout — where you scan and pay without a cashier the cashier (ka-SHEER, with no R sound) — the person at the till contactless — paying by touching your card on the machine £3.49 — three forty-nine, or three pounds forty-nine 99p — ninety-nine p (pee) £2 — two pounds, or two quid (casual) £1.50 — one fifty, or a pound fifty £10 — ten pounds, or a tenner (casual) Do you need any bags? — do you becomes d'yuh a loyalty card — a becomes uh That's twelve pounds sixty-five — pounds can almost vanish: twelve sixty-five Card or cash? (KAHD uh KASH) — or becomes uh; no R sound in card Is that everything? (iz-THAT EV-ree-thing) — the cashier checks you're finished Real British English: the complete spoken course for learners worldwide — modern British accent, everyday grammar, phrasal verbs, idioms, slang, he/she/it for things, and real conversations at home. Listen, repeat out loud, then take the 52-question quiz. Audio voiced with AI from an original script by Dr. Rashmi R Nair.