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[8:27] My First Part-Time Job at the Grocery Store: From Collecting Carts to Displaying Fruits

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This article describes the author's first part-time job experience at a grocery store, from collecting shopping carts to arranging fruits and other items. It showcases the tasks and feelings involved, suitable for beginner English listening practice.

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My first job. I just got a job at the grocery store. This is my first job. I will receive a paycheck every two weeks. I wear a uniform. The uniform has the name of the grocery store on it. I have many jobs at the grocery store.

I have to collect all the carts from the parking lot and bring them back into the store. I have to put all the produce out for the people to see. I will be putting out the vegetables. There are carrots, lettuce, cabbages, cucumbers, and beans to put out this morning. I also have to put the fruit out on the stand so that it looks nice. The oranges roll away when I put them out, so I have to be careful.

I put out the apples, bananas, and grapes. I stack boxes up so that people can buy cereal and cookies. I have to be careful or the boxes will fall. There are cans of things which also need to be placed on the shelves. Yesterday I filled the shelves with canned vegetables and soup.

I like talking to people at the grocery store. This morning a lady asked me where the bakery department was. She needed a loaf of bread. I have directed people to the meat department and to the dairy products.

I would like to work in the bakery. I think I would like to bake cakes and decorate them. It would be fun to bake breads and cookies. Or maybe I would like to be a cashier and work at the cash register. I am very good at counting money.

I am enjoying my job at the grocery store. I hope that I can continue to work here part time during the school year.

Listening Comprehension

produce
noun
1. fresh fruits and vegetable grown for the market
Synonym: green goodsgreen groceriesgarden truck
stack
noun
1. a storage device that handles data so that the next item to be retrieved is the item most recently stored (LIFO)
Synonym: push-down storagepush-down store
2. a large tall chimney through which combustion gases and smoke can be evacuated
Synonym: smokestack
3. a list in which the next item to be removed is the item most recently stored (LIFO)
Synonym: push-down listpush-down stack
4. an orderly pile
5. (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
e.g. a batch of letters
a deal of trouble
a lot of money
he made a mint on the stock market
see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos
it must have cost plenty
a slew of journalists
a wad of money
Synonym: batchdealflockgood dealgreat dealhatfulheaplotmassmessmicklemintmountainmucklepasselpeckpileplentypotquite a littleraftsightslewspatetidy sumwad
uniform
noun
1. clothing of distinctive design worn by members of a particular group as a means of identification
cashier
noun
1. a person responsible for receiving payments for goods and services (as in a shop or restaurant)
2. an employee of a bank who receives and pays out money
Synonym: tellerbank clerk
bakery
noun
1. a workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold
Synonym: bakeshopbakehouse
directed
adj
1. manageable by a supervising agent
e.g. a directed program of study
2. (often used in combination) having a specified direction
e.g. a positively directed vector
goal-directed
enjoying