At the Store
A1 · Shopping · about 1 min · 67 words · Difficulty ●●○ Steady
Julia needs new shoes. The red ones look great — but there is a problem.
Read
Julia needs new shoes for school. She goes to a shoe store with her mother. The store is big and bright.
Julia likes the red shoes, but they are small. She tries on the blue shoes. They are good. 'How much are they?' her mother asks. 'Forty dollars,' the man says.
Her mother pays, and Julia walks home in her new blue shoes. She is very happy.
Vocabulary
Julia needs new shoes.
The store is big and bright.
She tries on the blue shoes.
Her mother pays forty dollars.
Julia is very happy.
Key Expressions
- How much are they?
- tries on
- walks home
- very happy
Reading Strategy — Watch for the problem
Questions
Each question trains a named skill. Read the explanations after you check your answers — they show you where the answer lives in the text.
Mini Review
- Julia's problem: the red shoes are small. The fix: blue shoes for forty dollars.
- Find the problem in a story and the ending makes sense.
- Useful words: shoes, bright, try, pay, happy.
Keep going
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