Step 29: Shopping Day

📖 Read — Sophia Goes Shopping

Sophia and Emma are shopping in downtown Chicago. Sophia wants a dress for her cousin's wedding. She finds a beautiful red dress, but she looks at the price. “Ninety dollars! It's too expensive,” she says.

Emma finds a blue dress on sale. “This one is only forty dollars. Try it on!” Sophia tries it. “Hmm, it's not big enough.” Then the cashier brings a bigger size. It fits perfectly! “And the price is good,” Sophia smiles. “It's a good deal!”

🔊 Listen to the text

🧩 Grammar — Too and Enough + Prices

Use too + adjective when something is more than you want: too expensive, too small. Use adjective + enough when it is OK: big enough, cheap enough. Not OK? Say not + adjective + enough: It isn't big enough. Remember: enough goes AFTER the adjective, too goes BEFORE it. Ask prices with How much is it? / How much are they?

• This jacket is too expensive.
• The shoes are not big enough.
• This dress is cheap enough — let's buy it!
• How much is this shirt? — It's thirty dollars.

🏗️ Key structures

• How much is ___? — How much is this jacket?
• It's too ___ — It's too small for me.
• It's ___ enough / not ___ enough — It's warm enough. / It isn't warm enough.

⭐ Idiom & natural phrases

🔤 New words

🎧 Say it with me

How much is this dress? It’s too expensive, and it isn’t big enough. This one is a good deal!

🔊 Listen & repeat

🎤 Your turn to speak

Go shopping in your head: ask the price of two things, say one thing is too expensive, and one thing is not big enough.

Say it out loud three times. Even better: record it on your phone and listen — your ear is your best teacher.

✍️ Your turn to write

Write 4 sentences about a shopping day. Use too, enough, and How much.

Self-check: capital letters? Full stops? Did you use the grammar of this step?

📝 Quick check