# First steps: Numbers, prices and paying

**Language:** English  
**CEFR Level:** A1  

> Join Sue and Barry for a Saturday morning of prices and change, one short conversation at a time. Each lesson trains your ear until you can follow every word and answer back.

**Setting:** A fruit and vegetable stall at the Saturday farmers market in Manchester, busy but not rushed. Sue comes most weeks and Barry knows her face.

## Lessons

### 1. Asking what something costs

Sue asks Barry what the apples cost at his market stall.

### 2. Asking a price again

Sue misses the price of the tomatoes and asks Barry to say it again.

### 3. Asking the price of more items

Sue asks Barry what the bread and the eggs cost.

### 4. Saying how many you want

Barry asks how much Sue wants, and she fills her bag.

### 5. Asking for the total

Sue asks Barry what it comes to altogether.

### 6. Paying in cash

Barry turns out to take cash only, so Sue pays with two twenties.

### 7. Understanding your change

Barry counts out Sue's change and sends her off.