📖 Reading Practice 📖
🍔Difficult Customer🍔
⚪️Good evening. My name is Fabio. I’ll be your waiter for tonight. May I take your order?
⚫️No, I’m still working on it. This menu isn’t even in English. What’s good here?
⚪️ For you sir, I would recommend spaghetti and meatballs.
⚫️Does it come with coke and fries?
⚪️ It comes with either soup or salad and a complimentary glass of lemonade, sir.
⚫️I’ll go with the spaghetti and meatballs, salad and the lemonade.
⚪️Excellent choice. Your order will be ready soon.
⚫️How soon is soon?
⚪️Twenty minutes?
⚫️You know what? I’ll just go grab a burger across the street.
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🔘Key Vocabulary
• grab - get quickly
• go with - to choose, pick
• would recommend - suggest
• complimentary - free
• still working on - not yet completed, need more time
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🍔Difficult Customer🍔
⚪️Good evening. My name is Fabio. I’ll be your waiter for tonight. May I take your order?
⚫️No, I’m still working on it. This menu isn’t even in English. What’s good here?
⚪️ For you sir, I would recommend spaghetti and meatballs.
⚫️Does it come with coke and fries?
⚪️ It comes with either soup or salad and a complimentary glass of lemonade, sir.
⚫️I’ll go with the spaghetti and meatballs, salad and the lemonade.
⚪️Excellent choice. Your order will be ready soon.
⚫️How soon is soon?
⚪️Twenty minutes?
⚫️You know what? I’ll just go grab a burger across the street.
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🔘Key Vocabulary
• grab - get quickly
• go with - to choose, pick
• would recommend - suggest
• complimentary - free
• still working on - not yet completed, need more time
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🍃What Mood Are You In?🍃
A: Are you OK? You seem a bit anxious.
B: Yeah I’m OK, I have been having a lot of mood swings lately. I think it has to do with the pills my doctor prescribed that are causing chaos on my hormones.
A: So you mean you feel ecstatic one minute and then blue the next?
B: Yeah, it’s weird. For example just this morning I was feeling detached and lonely, even though there was really no reason to feel that way.
A: Well, maybe your mood will swing positively and you will feel confident, brave and hopeful!
B: I hope you are right.
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◻️Key Vocabulary
• anxious - worried or nervous of what may happen
• mood swing - rapid or successive change of your mood
• ecstatic - feeling very excited or happy
• blue - feeling sad, depressed
• detached - feeling of showing lack of emotional involvement
• lonely - sad from being apart from other people
• confident - assurance: from doubt
• brave - not feeling any fear freedom
◻️Supplementary Vocabulary
• maniac depressive - suffering from a disorder characterized by alternating mania and depression
• anxiety - an abnormal sense of fear, nervousness, and apprehension
• self esteem - personal feelings or opinions of oneself
• emotional - determined or actuated by emotion rather than reason
• overwhelming - overpowering in effect or force
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A: Are you OK? You seem a bit anxious.
B: Yeah I’m OK, I have been having a lot of mood swings lately. I think it has to do with the pills my doctor prescribed that are causing chaos on my hormones.
A: So you mean you feel ecstatic one minute and then blue the next?
B: Yeah, it’s weird. For example just this morning I was feeling detached and lonely, even though there was really no reason to feel that way.
A: Well, maybe your mood will swing positively and you will feel confident, brave and hopeful!
B: I hope you are right.
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◻️Key Vocabulary
• anxious - worried or nervous of what may happen
• mood swing - rapid or successive change of your mood
• ecstatic - feeling very excited or happy
• blue - feeling sad, depressed
• detached - feeling of showing lack of emotional involvement
• lonely - sad from being apart from other people
• confident - assurance: from doubt
• brave - not feeling any fear freedom
◻️Supplementary Vocabulary
• maniac depressive - suffering from a disorder characterized by alternating mania and depression
• anxiety - an abnormal sense of fear, nervousness, and apprehension
• self esteem - personal feelings or opinions of oneself
• emotional - determined or actuated by emotion rather than reason
• overwhelming - overpowering in effect or force
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📚 Homeschooling 📚
A: I think we should home school our children when we decide to have kids.
B: What? Why?
A: Well, our public schools here are not very good and private school are just too expensive. I have been reading up on home schooling and it has a lot of advantages.
B: Like what? I think that by doing something like that we would be isolating our children from social interaction.
A: Well, first of all, I would be able to teach them everything they learn in school in a more relaxed and fun way. I also think that having a one-on-one class is much better since you can focus more on his or her strengths or weaknesses.
B: I think neither your parents or mine would agree to such an idea.
A: I will bring it up over Sunday brunch.
B: Good luck with that!
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◾️Key Vocabulary
• home school - to educate kids at home by a parent or tutor
• first of all - firstly
• read up - to do research or instruct yourself on a topic
• isolate - to set apart from others; place alone
• social interaction - meeting, talking, doing activities with people
• one-on-one - a meeting or class between two people
• strengths - a quality that makes someone effective or useful
• weakness - the quality or state of being weak
• bring something up - to mention or open for discussion
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◾️Supplementary Vocabulary
• GED - general education diploma which is the equivalent of a high school diploma
• SAT - Scholastic Aptitude Test is a test which is taken throughout the US as an admission test to US colleges
• tutor - a person employed in the education of others, either individually or in groups
• recess - a short period of free time between school classes
• quiz - a short quick test
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A: I think we should home school our children when we decide to have kids.
B: What? Why?
A: Well, our public schools here are not very good and private school are just too expensive. I have been reading up on home schooling and it has a lot of advantages.
B: Like what? I think that by doing something like that we would be isolating our children from social interaction.
A: Well, first of all, I would be able to teach them everything they learn in school in a more relaxed and fun way. I also think that having a one-on-one class is much better since you can focus more on his or her strengths or weaknesses.
B: I think neither your parents or mine would agree to such an idea.
A: I will bring it up over Sunday brunch.
B: Good luck with that!
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◾️Key Vocabulary
• home school - to educate kids at home by a parent or tutor
• first of all - firstly
• read up - to do research or instruct yourself on a topic
• isolate - to set apart from others; place alone
• social interaction - meeting, talking, doing activities with people
• one-on-one - a meeting or class between two people
• strengths - a quality that makes someone effective or useful
• weakness - the quality or state of being weak
• bring something up - to mention or open for discussion
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◾️Supplementary Vocabulary
• GED - general education diploma which is the equivalent of a high school diploma
• SAT - Scholastic Aptitude Test is a test which is taken throughout the US as an admission test to US colleges
• tutor - a person employed in the education of others, either individually or in groups
• recess - a short period of free time between school classes
• quiz - a short quick test
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✂️ Cut In Line ✂️
A: I can’t believe it took us two hours to get here. The traffic in New York is unbelievable.
B: Yeah, but just relax honey, we’re here and we’re going on vacation. In a few hours we’ll be in Hawaii, and you’ll be on the golf course.
A: Oh no! Look at that line! It must be a mile long! There’s no way I’m waiting for another two hours.
B: Honey... don’t...
C: Hey man, the end of the line is over there.
A: Yeah...
C: No seriously, I was here first, and you can’t cut in line like this.
A: Says who?
C: I do!
A: So sue me!
C: Alright... that’s it...
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✂️Key Vocabulary
• unbelievable - incredible, amazing
• relax - calm down
• be a mile long - is very long
• cut in line - move in front of someone waiting in line
• there’s no way - it’s impossible
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✂️Supplementary Vocabulary
• traffic jam - many cars not moving on the road
• a few hours from now - soon, in a couple of hours
• form a queue - to get in line
• jump the queue - cut in line(Br E)
• stand in line - wait in line
• line up - form a line
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A: I can’t believe it took us two hours to get here. The traffic in New York is unbelievable.
B: Yeah, but just relax honey, we’re here and we’re going on vacation. In a few hours we’ll be in Hawaii, and you’ll be on the golf course.
A: Oh no! Look at that line! It must be a mile long! There’s no way I’m waiting for another two hours.
B: Honey... don’t...
C: Hey man, the end of the line is over there.
A: Yeah...
C: No seriously, I was here first, and you can’t cut in line like this.
A: Says who?
C: I do!
A: So sue me!
C: Alright... that’s it...
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✂️Key Vocabulary
• unbelievable - incredible, amazing
• relax - calm down
• be a mile long - is very long
• cut in line - move in front of someone waiting in line
• there’s no way - it’s impossible
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✂️Supplementary Vocabulary
• traffic jam - many cars not moving on the road
• a few hours from now - soon, in a couple of hours
• form a queue - to get in line
• jump the queue - cut in line(Br E)
• stand in line - wait in line
• line up - form a line
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🏨 Hotel Upgrade🏨
A: Good afternoon. What can I do for you?
B: I’d like to check in please. I have a reservation under the name Anthony Roberts.
A: All right R.O.B.E.R.T.S... Oh, Mr. Roberts we’ve been expecting you... And here is your keycard to the presidential suite.
B: But there must be some mistake; my reservation was for a standard room.
A: Are you sure? Let me double check.
B: Yeah... Here, this is my confirmation number.
A: You’re right Mr. Roberts, there seems to be a mix- up, unfortunately we’re overbooked at the moment.
B: So...
A: Not to worry. We’re pleased to offer you a complimentary upgrade.
B: Presidential suite baby!
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🏨 Key Vocabulary
• check in - register at a hotel or airport
• under the name - name used for the reservation
• reservation - booking
• confirmation - an approval, verification
• mix-up - confusion
• complimentary upgrade - free improvement of quality
• overbooked - full
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🏨Supplementary Vocabulary
• check out - pay and leave a hotel
• booking - reservation
• concierge - hotel employee that helps guests
• deluxe room - hotel room, better than standard
• receipt - paper showing payment details
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A: Good afternoon. What can I do for you?
B: I’d like to check in please. I have a reservation under the name Anthony Roberts.
A: All right R.O.B.E.R.T.S... Oh, Mr. Roberts we’ve been expecting you... And here is your keycard to the presidential suite.
B: But there must be some mistake; my reservation was for a standard room.
A: Are you sure? Let me double check.
B: Yeah... Here, this is my confirmation number.
A: You’re right Mr. Roberts, there seems to be a mix- up, unfortunately we’re overbooked at the moment.
B: So...
A: Not to worry. We’re pleased to offer you a complimentary upgrade.
B: Presidential suite baby!
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🏨 Key Vocabulary
• check in - register at a hotel or airport
• under the name - name used for the reservation
• reservation - booking
• confirmation - an approval, verification
• mix-up - confusion
• complimentary upgrade - free improvement of quality
• overbooked - full
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🏨Supplementary Vocabulary
• check out - pay and leave a hotel
• booking - reservation
• concierge - hotel employee that helps guests
• deluxe room - hotel room, better than standard
• receipt - paper showing payment details
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🗄 The Office - I need an assistant! 🗄
A: ...like I told you before, we just don’t have the resources to hire you an assistant.
B: I understand that, but the fact is we’re understaffed.
A: The timing is just not right. The economy is bad, and it’s too risky to take on new staff.
B: Yeah, I guess you’re right... Here’s an idea, what if we hire an intern? She would take some of the weight off my shoulders.
A: She?
B: Yeah, you know, a recent graduate. She could give me a hand with some of these projects and we could keep our costs down.
A: That sounds reasonable... Let me see what I can do.
A: Tony, I’d like to introduce you to your new assistant.
B: OK, great! Let’s meet her!
C: Hi, I’m Adam.
B: Oh... hi... I’m Tony...
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🗄 Key Vocabulary 🗄
• resources - money
• understaffed - not enough people to do the job
• the timing is just not right - it is not a good time now
• weight off my shoulders - remove pressure or stress
• give me a hand - help
• that sounds reasonable - is OK
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🗄 Supplementary Vocabulary 🗄
• recruit - hire
• overworked - working too much
• short staffed - not enough people to do the job
• cut costs - reduce spending
• overstaffed - having too many employees
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A: ...like I told you before, we just don’t have the resources to hire you an assistant.
B: I understand that, but the fact is we’re understaffed.
A: The timing is just not right. The economy is bad, and it’s too risky to take on new staff.
B: Yeah, I guess you’re right... Here’s an idea, what if we hire an intern? She would take some of the weight off my shoulders.
A: She?
B: Yeah, you know, a recent graduate. She could give me a hand with some of these projects and we could keep our costs down.
A: That sounds reasonable... Let me see what I can do.
A: Tony, I’d like to introduce you to your new assistant.
B: OK, great! Let’s meet her!
C: Hi, I’m Adam.
B: Oh... hi... I’m Tony...
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🗄 Key Vocabulary 🗄
• resources - money
• understaffed - not enough people to do the job
• the timing is just not right - it is not a good time now
• weight off my shoulders - remove pressure or stress
• give me a hand - help
• that sounds reasonable - is OK
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🗄 Supplementary Vocabulary 🗄
• recruit - hire
• overworked - working too much
• short staffed - not enough people to do the job
• cut costs - reduce spending
• overstaffed - having too many employees
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