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ON MONDAY
ESL Podcast 1066 – Buying a Luxury Car
In the Learning Guide: Get a full transcript (written version of every word you hear), vocabulary list and sample sentences, and comprehension questions.
In “What Else Does it Mean,” learn the other meanings of “remote” and “lot.”
In the “Culture Note,” learn about “Popular Car Ornaments.”
“Many people like to ‘accessorize’ (decorate with extra, unnecessary objects that are attractive)…” – READ MORE in the Learning Guide
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ON WEDNESDAY
English Cafe 484
Topics: American Movies – Sunset Boulevard; the Borscht Belt and the Chitlin’ Circuit; renumeration/remuneration versus reimbursement versus kickback; to print off (copies) versus to photocopy; nitty-gritty
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In “What Insiders Know,” you will read about “The Sunset Strip.”
“The Sunset Strip is a mile and a half ‘stretch’ (length) of road located on Sunset Boulevard…” – READ MORE in the Learning Guide
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ON FRIDAY
ESL Podcast 1067 – Major Dental Work
In the Learning Guide: Get a full transcript (written version of every word you hear), vocabulary list and sample sentences, and comprehension questions.
In “What Else Does it Mean,” learn the other meanings of “to be set up” and “to act as.”
In the “Culture Note,” learn about “The Anatomy of Teeth.”
“People who study human ‘anatomy’ (science related to the structures of a body or organism)…” – READ MORE in the Learning Guide
Hi everyone. After I survive myself successfully this holiday season, I become myself
an English learner (again).
Have a good week!!!
Hi Everyone, I’m a new one just found this ESL treasure. Wish you all have a happy New Year!
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Here I’m again on my first post in 2015
This is a amazing car really. Here we don’t have a national automobile industry, we have cars from international automobile industry which have manufactures here so because that our cars is 30% to 60% more expensive than in others countries and if we have to import others cars which do not have manufactures here because of tax we pay 100% or more than others costumers on others countries. So car is more expensive here than in others cauntries.
Nice day to everyone
Hey guys,
I wanna share with you guys a couple of things I have learned recently.
First one that I have heard, actually I hear this idiom quite a lot. I do not recall it was covered here on the blog.
Anyway, it is “Walk the walk talk the talk” I gather it means that what you say must be followed by action. You cannot just say something and doing the opposite of what you say.
The other one is “Vanilla compared to something else” If you thought something was big/huge, and then you find something else that is bigger than that, the first one compared to the second one is nothing, is vanilla.
I can give a practical example of that, something I have experienced.
I thought bad of the Catholics here in Italy, but now that I have seen the fundamentalist Christian in the US, the Catholics compared to those are vanilla.
Thanks, hope I do not offend anyone with my example. It’s just that, an example.
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Podcast 484. Rice and beans is a staple food on here, if you get more people for dinner and you don’t have food enough, you are in dire straits, so here when you are in that situation people say ” darling put water on beans we have friends”. Like the word remuneration and renumeration in English, in portuguese we have “remuneração” and “renumeração” but we don’t have any problem with that word when we write, we read or heard, to me is very different even in English.
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Nobody never arranged a date to me with an woman, like that, I didn’t feel the pain of a root canal. I’m a luck guy and I just have some inlays on my mouth too. Because a treatment with an dentist is very expensive in my country I usually going to a dentist regularly to clean my teeth to avoid problems.
One more day, a beautiful day, nice day to everyone
Oh my. 1067 is hard and tough one, so many new words. Especially for the word “proctologist”, yes it’s definitely right let us look up it ourselves….
Don’t even try to go for a proctologist if you don’t need. The test is painful and embarassing. But if you need, don’t skip it. It will be worse in the future. Even worse is to have an appointment with a dostor who will exam you prostate. After 4Aecio0, you have to be carefull, because prostate cancer kills.
Putting it in the correct form:
Don’t even try to go for a proctologist if you don’t need. The test is painful and embarassing. But if you need, don’t skip it. It will be worse in the future. Even worse is to have an appointment with a dostor who will exam you prostate. After 40, you have to be carefull, because prostate cancer kills.
Aecio
Excuse me.