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Learn English with EnglishClass101! Don't forget to stop by EnglishClass101.com for more great English Language Learning Resources! -------Lesson Dialog------- ----Formal ---- Mike: Hey, Susan! Rise and shine! You don't want to spend the first day of our vacation in bed, do you? Get up! Susan: Geez... What time is it? Mike: It's six a.m. We've got to hit Central Park today. It's going to be bright and sunny! Susan: Really? I heard it was going to be sunny partly cloudy with showers in the late afternoon. Mike: What? We need to check the weather forecast. (Mike turns on the TV) Weather Girl 1: A weakening cold front is expected to bring scattered showers and thunderstorms to New York City today. Mike: I don't believe this! Let's check The Weather Channel. They're more accurate. Weather Girl 2: Heavy rains and strong winds will hit New York City this afternoon. (Mike turns off the TV) Mike: No! Susan: I guess we're not going rollerblading today. Mike: We could wear raincoats and a shower cap. Susan: I don't think so, honey! Mike: C'mon. It'll be like the movie, "singing and dancing in the rain." Susan: It'll be more like slipping and dying in the rain, if you ask me. Mike: C'mon. Don't be a wet blanket. Susan: I'd rather be a wet blanket than roadkill. Let's do something indoors today. Let's go to the Met. Mike: Whatever you say, dear...(cynical) --------------------------- Learn English with EnglishClass101! Don't forget to stop by EnglishClass101.com for more great English Language Learning Resources!

Learn English with EnglishClass101! Don't forget to stop by EnglishClass101.com for more great English Language Learning Resources! -------Lesson Dialog------- ----Formal ---- Mark: Hello, may I ask who's calling? Sheila: Hello, this is Sheila, I have a phone interview with this office scheduled for now. Can I please speak with Mr. Mark Cantor? Mark: Ah, of course. Hello Sheila, this is Mark, it's nice to meet you. Thanks for calling. Sheila: It's my pleasure. Mark: All right then, let's get started, shall we? Can you tell me about why you are interested in working at our office? Sheila: Well, I've been studying politics at university and am graduating this May, I'm looking for a job that has me intimately involved with the legislative process. I'd like to do research, write speeches, and interact with Congressional Members. Working in politics and getting to talk with Senators and Representatives sounds really exciting to me. Mark: Great, and can you tell me a little about your previous experiences? Sheila: Well, my most recent job was working at the school's newspaper as a politics columnist. It wasn't the best in terms of pay but it was better than my other jobs and gave me a good chance to practice writing about something I liked. Mark: Fair enough. What can you say about your strengths and weaknesses? Sheila: I think that my best trait is that I am very dedicated and driven. However, at the same time, this can be my worst characteristic—sometimes I have a hard time knowing when to quit. --------------------------- Learn English with EnglishClass101! Don't forget to stop by EnglishClass101.com for more great English Language Learning Resources!

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Learn English with EnglishClass101! Don't forget to stop by EnglishClass101.com for more great English Language Learning Resources! -------Lesson Dialog------- ----Formal ---- Ireland When I was nineteen and a rising junior in college, I had the opportunity to participate in a work-abroad program. The company that ran the program required that all participants speak the language of the country they would visit. Since I did not speak anything but English fluently, my choices were limited. I chose Ireland, partially because my grandmother's ancestors were from County Cork in Southern Ireland. I was a bit nervous, but I was fairly confident that things would be easy once I got to Dublin and was given my work assignment. To quote a cliché, boy was I wrong. People say that natives of Southern California have no accent. Whether or not this is true, I had grown up with those "no accent" voices in my ears. When I got to Ireland, I had a difficult time. After a very nice, very frustrated woman told me for the fourth time that the youth hostel I was looking for was just past the "carriage," she finally explained that it was the place where cars were fixed. She said "garage," but it sounded like "carriage." All at once, I felt very young, very lost, and very, very stupid. I thanked the woman when she directed me to my bus stop. I checked into the hostel, found an empty cot, and sat down to contemplate my situation. I was nineteen years old and alone in a strange country. English or no English, everything was different. It was at that moment that I realized that this two-month period would be much more important in my life than a summer abroad. It would be a cultural immersion; a chance for me to rely entirely upon myself. I realized that I was an adult, and what I would do, learn, and experience were entirely up to me. It was by no means easy, but it was absolutely wonderful. --------------------------- Learn English with EnglishClass101! Don't forget to stop by EnglishClass101.com for more great English Language Learning Resources!

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Learn English with EnglishClass101! Don't forget to stop by EnglishClass101.com for more great English Language Learning Resources! -------Lesson Dialog------- ----Formal ---- Holiday Shopping I took my daughter to a hardware store this morning to buy new fan blades for our outdated ceiling fan. After buckling her into the red plastic shopping cart, we had barely walked through the sliding doors when she shouted, "I wanna see Christmas decorations and Mickey, Mommy!" She pointed to her left using her entire body. I looked, and much to my disdain, the aisles were filled with blow up Christmas yard art depicting Mickey Mouse and friends, toy soldiers, snow globes with Frosty the Snowman inside, and others too numerous to name. The center aisle displays were filled with wrapping paper, plastic boxes designed especially for storing ornaments, and the ornaments themselves. Everything was red, green, and gold, and the air smelled of cloves and pine. Today is Halloween. When I was a kid, Christmas decorations showed up in the stores after Thanksgiving. Halloween candy did not go on sale until after October 31st, and the Pilgrims in their shiny belt buckles and stove pipe hats were allowed to stick around until the last turkey leg was eaten. Now, it seems that we are all in a rush to get to the next holiday, whatever that may be. I know that Valentine candy will be on the shelves the day after Christmas, and Santa and his reindeer will be relegated to the sale aisle at the back of the store. Perhaps it's just me, but seeing artificial Christmas trees on Halloween morning takes something special away from passing out candy to trick-or-treaters at night. "Look, Mommy," my daughter says as she watches another little girl playing with an animatronic elf. It shakes a candy cane studded with silver bells and sings "Jingle Bells" in a tiny voice. "Mmmhmm," I say, and turn the cart toward the lighting department. --------------------------- Learn English with EnglishClass101! Don't forget to stop by EnglishClass101.com for more great English Language Learning Resources!

Learn English with EnglishClass101! Don't forget to stop by EnglishClass101.com for more great English Language Learning Resources! -------Lesson Dialog------- ----Formal English---- Drew: Taxi! (opens door, gets in, closes door) Taxi driver: Where to? Drew: Can you take me to the Golden Gate Hotel? I have the address right here. Taxi driver: Don't worry, I know where it is. Drew: Oh, good. Taxi driver: You hear what happened to the Andy Warhol painting at the MOMA? It was stolen! Drew: Oh really? Wow! That's just crazy! Security must have been sleeping, or the thief must have been nimble as anything! Like in the movies! Taxi driver: Yeah, probably some art lover who's athletic enough to pull such a stunt. Drew: Yeah, or maybe the person just didn't think that it was modern enough to be at the Museum of Modern Art… Taxi driver: We're here. That'll be $44.90. Drew: Oh, here's fifty dollars. Keep the change. Thanks. Taxi driver: All right. Have a nice day. --------------------------- Learn English with EnglishClass101! Don't forget to stop by EnglishClass101.com for more great English Language Learning Resources!