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Shopping for Vegetables

Look - Read - Listen

Agriculture for English Language Learners

Directions

  1. Look at the picture. 
  2. Read the sentence. 
  3. Try to say the words. 
  4. Listen to the spoken words.
  5. Say the sentence again.
  6. Listen to the words again.
Red tomatoes cost one dollar and forty nine cents per pound.

Large baking potatoes cost forty nine cents per pound.

A ten pound bag of potatoes costs two dollars and seventy nine cents.
Small white potatoes cost ninety nine cents per pound.
Small red potatoes cost ninety nine cents per pound.
Sweet potatoes cost eighty nine cents for a pound.
White onions cost fifty nine cents for one pound.
The yellow onions cost fifty nine cents per pound.
Red onions cost sixty nine cents per pound.
The price of these carrots is seventy nine cents for one pound.
Golden Bell Peppers sell for two dollars and forty nine cents each.
Each bunch of Green Asparagus costs two dollars and ninety nine cents per pound.
Red radishes sell for one dollar and thirty nine cents for each bunch.
Five ears of sweet corn costs two dollars. That means each ear of corn costs forty cents.

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Credits 

This page was created as a part of Missouri's Agriculture in the Classroom program at Missouri State University through a USDA grant. 

Teachers are encouraged to adapt this lesson for classroom use only.  No part of this publication may be transmitted, stored, recorded or published in any form without written permission from Missouri Farm Bureau.

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This page was developed  by Lyndon and Barbara Irwin and is maintained by Missouri Farm Bureau.

Please address questions to Diane Olson at Missouri Farm Bureau or Dr. Lyndon Irwin at Missouri State University. 

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Last revised on March 5, 2008