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Hello everyone and welcome to EnglishPod.
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My name is Marco.
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My name is Catherine and today we're bringing you another elementary level lesson as a part of our interview series.
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That's right.
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This is part two of the interview series and the last part we talked about, well, a brief introduction when you arrive to a job interview.
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But on this occasion, we're going to talk a little bit about yourself and your life.
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That's right.
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So this is the most personal part, I think, of an interview.
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Let's take a listen to today's dialogue, and we'll be back in a moment to talk more about the things that you've heard.
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Now, Ms. Child's passed on your resume to me, and I've had a chance to look it over.
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I must say, I'm quite impressed.
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Thank you very much.
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I've tried to keep it short and clear.
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If there are any questions, please feel free to ask me.
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Well, yes, I do have a number of questions, but perhaps first you could give me a brief overview.
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I'd like to get a little bit of an idea of your background.
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Yes, of course.
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Well, as you can see from the resume, I'm 27 and grew up in Brooklyn,
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New York, although our family moved to London when I was quite young, at around 16.
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Ah, I see.
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So you were actually educated in Europe.
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Yes, precisely.
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Although I was born in the US, I would definitely call London home.
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But as you see, I've actually spent a lot of my life moving from country to country.
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My father was in the oil business before he retired, so we also spent a number of years in Saudi Arabia, too.
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Very interesting.
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So it seems you had quite an adventurous childhood.
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Absolutely.
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We were never still for too long, but now I'm really looking to settle down.
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I see.
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Okay, well, let's move on to discuss your education, shall we?
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Sure.
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Alright, we're back.
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So obviously this person had a very interesting life and they used some pretty interesting words there.
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So why don't we take a look at five key words that we have prepared for you on language takeaway.
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Language takeaway.
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Alright, so the first word that we have is right
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when Mr. Parsons talked to Miss Childs and he said that he was very impressed with her resume.
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All right.
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So someone says, I'm impressed when they think that something
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that you did or something about you is very interesting or good or better than most people's.
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That's right.
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So you're kind of amazed.
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You're kind of, you're like, wow.
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Right.
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And so this is an adjective.
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I am impressed.
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That's right.
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So teachers sometimes say this.
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Maybe when you do really, really, really well on a test, they say, hey, Marco, I'm really impressed.
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You got 99 percent.
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Parents say this to friends, family.
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So basically this is a way to say good job.
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Wow.
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Right, and there's also a verb.
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So this is the adjective to be impressed and the verb form would be to impress someone.
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So that's obviously if you impress your teacher by studying, your teacher will be impressed.
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That's right.
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And following that, Mr. Parson has some questions about Ms. Child's background.
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That's right.
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He asked her for a brief overview of her background.
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So we have two interesting words there.
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An overview.
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What is an overview?
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An overview is like a summary.
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It's basically a way to ask for someone to give you a lot of information in very few words.
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That's right.
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So you don't really want too much details.
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You don't want somebody to tell you their life in detail.
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You just want a brief summary.
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Right.
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So not, I was born on August 11th in 1979 and I was, and then I went into this.
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No, this is basic, simple, you know, this is where I'm from.
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This is where I went to school at the end.
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And, well, he wanted a brief overview of her background.
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What exactly is her background?
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Well, think about the word back.
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Okay, that means behind.
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Or in this case, background is your personal history.
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So you could ask someone, what's your background?
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It means, where are you from?
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Or, you know, what have you been doing up to now in your life?
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That's right.
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And precisely when he asked her about her background, now she's starting to talk about her life.
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In general terms, as we said, it's an overview.
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So she said that she's 27 and she's from Brooklyn, etc. So she starts giving very general information about herself and her life.
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Exactly.
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So when she starts to do this, Mr. Parson has more specific questions about her life because he wants to know details.
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So he asks her then where she was educated. So this.
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phrase to be educated is very important.
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That's right.
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So he's asking her you studied in Europe.
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That's right.
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To be educated means to have someone teach you or to go to school somewhere.
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So for example, I was educated in America.
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Where were you educated, Marco?
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I was educated in Chile.
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Wow.
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So you've been educated in a number of different places, right?
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At home and in a different country.
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Right.
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But you can also specify the university name, right?
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For example, I was educated at Harvard.
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Can you say that you can or I was educated at a number of different schools
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So you can say I studied or I was educated
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All right, and well apparently she was moving around from Europe United States
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So mr. Parsons says wow it seems that you had an adventurous childhood
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Okay, this is a great adjective adventurous.
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You can say a person is adventurous.
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So Marco is very adventurous
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He likes to jump out of airplanes.
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But you can also say that an experience is adventurous, like moving around a lot as a child.
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Right.
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So I guess adventurous can go hand in hand with exciting or very interesting, full of emotion.
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That's right.
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Okay.
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Adventure, adventurous.
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So a person can be adventurous.
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And we actually had a lesson about this when we described personalities.
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You can say someone is adventurous.
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All right.
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Very good it so five key words
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that we just took a look at why don't we go back listen to the dialogue again
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and we'll be back to talk a little bit more on fluency builder
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now this child's passed on your resume to me
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and I've had a chance to look it over I must say
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I'm quite impressed thank you very much I've tried to keep it short
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and clear if there are any questions please feel free to ask me
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Well, yes, I do have a number of questions, but perhaps first you could give me a brief overview.
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I'd like to get a little bit of an idea of your background.
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Yes, of course.
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Well, as you can see from the resume, I'm 27 and grew up in Brooklyn,
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New York, although our family moved to London when I was quite young, at around 16.
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Ah, I see.
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So you were actually educated in Europe.
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Yes, precisely.
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Although I was born in the US, I would definitely call London home.
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But as you see, I've actually spent a lot of my life moving from country to country.
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My father was in the oil business before he retired, so we also spent a number of years in Saudi Arabia, too.
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Very interesting.
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So it seems you had quite an adventurous childhood.
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Absolutely.
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We were never still for too long, but now I'm really looking to settle down.
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I see.
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Okay, well, let's move on to discuss your education, shall we?
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Sure.
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All right, we're back.
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So we have four phrases for you on Fluency Builder prepared.
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And let's start on with the first one.
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Fluency Builder.
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Okay, so the very beginning, Mr. Parsons is continuing what he was saying in our first part.
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So Mr. Parsons is talking about Rebecca's resume and he says, someone, the secretary, she passed it on to me.
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So this verb, to pass on.
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This is really important.
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What does this mean?
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Well, the secretary, Ms. Childs, passed on Rebecca's resume.
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That basically means Ms. Childs received it and she didn't keep it.
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She passed it on or she gave it to another person, in this case, Mr. Parsons.
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Okay, so this implies, this shows that something doesn't stay with one person, like you said, Marco, but it moves from one person to another person.
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So, for example, my mother told me to pass this message on to you.
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The message is not for me.
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It's for you.
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I think also with physical traits, like maybe if your mother had green eyes,
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you can maybe say, my mom passed on her eye color on to me.
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That's right.
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So you got it from her.
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All right.
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So that's what happened with the resume.
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And he said, well, she passed it on and I've had the chance to look it over.
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Okay, so think about this as a chunk, as a group of words that we use together.
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To look something over, we can say, hey, Marco, when you have a minute, can you look this over for me?
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Okay, so that means to examine or to take a look.
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Take a look at, that's right.
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So to look something over or to look it over.
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All right, so basically to examine, maybe in close detail, right?
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You actually take the time to read it.
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That's right.
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Okay.
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And then later on, they started talking about her background.
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As we know, she was from Brooklyn.
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She grew up in Brooklyn and then she moved to London.
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And so Rebecca described how she spent most of her life moving from country to country.
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Okay.
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From country to country.
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This means that she moved to many different countries.
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Okay, so if I live in America all my life, I never moved from country to country.
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You can say this about many different things from place to place from town to town.
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It means that you live in one you go from one place to another.
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That's right.
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So as you said, if you replace the noun country, you can say from town to town.
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You can even say from house to house.
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I went from house to house asking for money.
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That's right.
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So from to.
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Exactly.
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So from something to something and For our final phrase
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She was talking about how she's moved around so much that she's actually ready to settle down
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Okay to settle down
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This is a really important phrase
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and I think it's something a lot of people do when they're maybe in their 30s or 40s
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They don't want to move anymore.
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So to settle down means to stay in one place
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Exactly so you stay in one place and it can have a lot of different meanings as well
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For example, to get married, many people say that's settling down.
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It means you want to stay in one place and have a family.
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Or to buy a house because it means that you will live there for a long time.
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Exactly.
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So, to settle down.
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So, a lot of interesting phrases there, a lot of words, and this is, as we said, part two of our series.
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So, I think it would be worthy for us to listen to this dialogue one last time,
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and we'll be back to talk a little bit more.
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Now, Ms. Child's passed on your resume to me and I've had a chance to look it over.
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I must say, I'm quite impressed.
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Thank you very much.
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I've tried to keep it short and clear.
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If there are any questions, please feel free to ask me.
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Well, yes, I do have a number of questions, but perhaps first you could give me a brief overview.
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I'd like to get a little bit of an idea of your background.
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Yes, of course.
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Well, as you can see from the resume, I'm 27 and grew up in Brooklyn,
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New York, although our family moved to London when I was quite young, at around 16.
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Ah, I see.
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So you were actually educated in Europe?
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Yes, precisely.
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Although I was born in the US, I would definitely call London home.
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But as you see, I've actually spent a lot of my life moving from country to country.
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My father was in the oil business before he retired, so we also spent a number of years in Saudi Arabia too.
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Very interesting.
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So seems you had quite an adventurous childhood.
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Absolutely.
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We were never still for too long, but now I'm really looking to settle down.
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I see.
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Okay, well let's move on to discuss your education, shall we?
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Sure.
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Alright, we're back.
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So this is part two of a ten -part series of the interviews.
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Now, we just talked about the background
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and I think there are different ways of talking about your background right
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this is maybe your personal background that's right
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so you can talk about your personal history your personal background
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where you were born where you were educated where you grew up
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but a lot of times we also have to talk about other parts of our background like our work background
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or like next week our educational background that's right so
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So part three, we're going to take a look at your educational background.
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And it's going to be very important because I think in many interviews, people have a hard time describing what they studied
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or maybe describing exactly what they did during university or college or master's degree or something.
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Exactly.
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And we're not talking about elementary school or high school.
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We're specifically talking about university background here.
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So like you're saying, Marco, what was your major?
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What was your minor?
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What was your area of study?
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These are great, great, great phrases that are very important for an interview.
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And so, we hope that if you have any questions, you'll let us know.
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Our website is EnglishPod .com and stay tuned for next week's episode.
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That's right.
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Okay, so we'll see everyone on the website and until next time.
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Bye.
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Bye.
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Bye. To calm down.
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Settle down.
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Hand in.
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Pass on.
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Feel relaxed.
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Feel free.
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Let's try that faster.
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Hand in.
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Pass on.
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A general description.
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A brief overview.
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Feel relaxed.
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Feel free.
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To calm down.
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Settle down.
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Cause someone to feel admiration.
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Impress.
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Now say the word and hear it in a sentence.
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A brief overview.
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George, would you give us a brief overview of what the marketing team has been working on this week?
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A brief overview
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This guidebook doesn't have a lot of detailed information about Paris.
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It just provides a brief overview.
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A brief overview
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Before we talk about the specific job description, let me give you a brief overview of what we do here at ABC Corporation.
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Impress.
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Well, Jeff, I'm really impressed with your photography skills.
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These pictures are beautiful.
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Impress.
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On my first trip to Hong Kong, I was really impressed with the efficiency of the subway system.
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Impress.
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Good job with that sales meeting, Ellen.
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I think the client was really impressed.
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Pass on.
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We're all going to the Sichuan restaurant for lunch.
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Pass it on.
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We want to have a large group.
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Pass on.
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Linda, after you add the most recent QC figures to the report, please pass it on to Mr. Wang.
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Pass on.
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Thanks for your feedback.
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I'll pass your suggestions on to the design team.
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Feel free.
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Excuse me, may I use your bathroom?
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Oh, please feel free.
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Feel free.
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Welcome to our art gallery.
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Feel free to look around.
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Feel free.
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After listening to this EnglishPod lesson, please feel free to post your questions and comments on our website.
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Settle down.
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Chosen children, settle down please.
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It's time to begin class.
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Settle down.
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He was something of a playboy in the past, but now he's ready to get married and settle down.
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Settle down After living in the city so long,
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I'd really like to settle down in a small town.
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Now, Ms. Child's passed on your resume to me and I've had a chance to look it over.
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I must say, I'm quite impressed.
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Thank you very much.
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I've tried to keep it short and clear.
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If there are any questions, please feel free to ask me.
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Well, yes, I do have a number of questions, but perhaps first you could give me a brief overview.
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I'd like to get a little bit of an idea of your background.
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Yes, of course.
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Well, as you can see from the resume, I'm 27 and grew up in Brooklyn,
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New York, although our family moved to London when I was quite young, at around 16.
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Ah, I see.
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So you were actually educated in Europe.
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Yes, precisely.
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Although I was born in the US, I would definitely call London home.
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But as you see, I've actually spent a lot of my life moving from country to country.
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My father was in the oil business before he retired, so we also spent a number of years in Saudi Arabia, too.
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Very interesting.
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So seems you had quite an adventurous childhood.
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Absolutely.
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We were never still for too long, but now I'm really looking to settle down.
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I see.
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Okay, well let's move on to discuss your education, shall we?
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Sure.
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Alright, we're back.
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So obviously this person had a very interesting life and they use some pretty interesting words there.
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So why don't we take a look at five key words that we have prepared for you on language takeaway.
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Language takeaway
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Alright, so the first word that we have is right
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when Mr. Parsons talked to Miss Childs and he said that he was very impressed with her resume.
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Alright, so someone says, I'm impressed when they think that something
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that you did or something about you is very interesting or good or better than most people's.
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That's right.
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So you're kind of amazed.
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You're kind of, you're like, wow.
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Right.
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And so this is an adjective.
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I am impressed.
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That's right.
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So teachers sometimes say this.
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Maybe when you do really, really, really well on a test, they say, hey, Marco, I'm really impressed.
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You got 99 percent.
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Parents say this to friends, family.
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So basically, this is a way to say good job.
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Wow.
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Right, and there's also a verb.
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So this is the adjective to be impressed and the verb form would be to impress someone.
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So that's obviously if you impress your teacher by studying, your teacher will be impressed.
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That's right.
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And following that, Mr. Parson has some questions about Ms. Child's background.
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That's right.
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He asked her for a brief overview of her background.
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So we have two interesting words there.
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An overview.
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What is an overview?
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An overview is like a summary.
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It's basically a way to ask for someone to give you a lot of information in very few words.
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That's right.
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So you don't really want too much details.
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You don't want somebody to tell you their life in detail.
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You just want a brief summary.
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Right.
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So not, I was born on August 11th in 1979 and I was and then I went into this and no, this is basic, simple.
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You know, this is where I'm from.
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This is where I went to school at the end.
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And, well, he wanted a brief overview of her background.
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What exactly is her background?
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Well, think about the word back.
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Okay, that means behind.
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Or in this case, background is your personal history.
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So you could ask someone, what's your background?
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It means, where are you from?
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Or, you know, what have you been doing up to now in your life?
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That's right.
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And precisely when he asked her about her background, now she's starting to talk about her life.
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In general terms, as we said, it's an overview.
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So she said that she's 27 and she's from Brooklyn, etc. So she starts giving very general information about herself and her life.
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Exactly.
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So when she starts to do this, Mr. Parson has more specific questions about her life because he wants to know details.
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So he asks her then where she was educated.
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So this phrase, to be educated, is very important.
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That's right.
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So he's asking her you studied in Europe.
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That's right to be educated means to have someone teach you or to go to school
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Somewhere so for example, I was educated in America.
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Where were you educated Marco?
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I was educated in Chile Wow
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So you've been educated in a number of different places right at home and in a different country, right?
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But you can also specify the University name right for example.
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I was educated at Harvard.
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Can you say that you can
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or I was educated at a number of different schools
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so you can say I studied or I was educated mm -hmm all right
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and well apparently she was moving around from Europe United States
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so mr. Parsons says wow it seems
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that you had an adventurous childhood okay this is a great adjective adventurous you can say a person is adventurous so
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Marco is very adventurous he likes to jump out of airplanes but you can also say that an experience is adventurous,
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like moving around a lot as a child.
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Right.
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So I guess adventurous can go hand in hand with exciting or very interesting, full of emotion.
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That's right.
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Okay.
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Adventure, adventurous.
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So a person can be adventurous.
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And we actually had a lesson about this when we describe personalities.
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You can say someone is adventurous.
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Exactly.
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All right.
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Very good.
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So five key words that we just took a look at.
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Why don't we go back, listen to the dialogue again, and we'll be back to talk a little bit more on Fluency Builder.
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Now, Ms. Child's passed on your resume to me, and I've had a chance to look it over.
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I must say, I'm quite impressed.
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Thank you very much.
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I've tried to keep it short and clear.
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If there are any questions, please feel free to ask me.
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Well, yes, I do have a number of questions, but perhaps first you could give me a brief overview.
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I'd like to get a little bit of an idea of your background.
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Yes, of course.
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Well, as you can see from the resume, I'm 27.
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and grew up in Brooklyn, New York, although our family moved to London when I was quite young, at around 16.
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Ah, I see.
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So you were actually educated in Europe?
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Yes, precisely.
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Although I was born in the US, I would definitely call London home.
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But as you see, I've actually spent a lot of my life moving from country to country.
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My father was in the oil business before he retired, so we also spent a number of years in Saudi Arabia too.
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Very interesting.
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So seems you had quite an adventurous childhood.
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Absolutely.
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We were never still for too long, but now I'm really looking to settle down.
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I see.
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Okay, well let's move on to discuss your education, shall we?
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Sure.
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Alright, we're back.
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So we have four phrases for you on Fluency Builder prepared, and let's start on with the first one.
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Fluency Builder Okay, so at the very beginning, Mr. Parsons is continuing what he was saying in our first part.
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So, Mr. Parsons is talking about Rebecca's resume, and he says, someone, the secretary, she passed it on to me.
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So, this verb, to pass on.
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This is really important.
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What does this mean?
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Well, the secretary, Ms. Childs, passed on Rebecca's resume.
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That basically means she, Miss Childs received it and she didn't keep it.
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She passed it on or she gave it to another person.
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In this case, Mr. Parsons.
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Okay, so this implies, this shows that something doesn't stay with one person, like you said, Marco, but it moves from one person to another person.
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So, for example, my mother told me to pass this message on to you.
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The message is not for me, it's for you.
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I think also with physical traits, like maybe if your mother had green eyes,
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you can maybe say, my mom passed on her eye color onto me.
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That's right.
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So you got it from her.
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All right.
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So that's what happened with the resume.
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And he said, well, she passed it on and I've had the chance to look it over.
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Okay, so think about this as a chunk, as a group of words that we use together.
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To look something over, we can say, hey, Marco, when you have a minute, can you look this over for me?
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Okay, so that means to examine or to take a look.
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Take a look at, that's right.
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So, to look something over or to look it over.
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Alright, so basically to examine, maybe in close detail, right?
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You actually take the time to read it.
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That's right.
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Okay.
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And then later on, they started talking about her background.
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As we know, she was from Brooklyn.
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She grew up in Brooklyn and then she moved to London.
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And so Rebecca described how she spent most of her life moving from country to country.
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Okay, from country to country.
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This means that she moved to many different countries.
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Okay, so if I live in America all my life, I never moved from country to country.
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You can say this about many different things from place to place from town to town.
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It means that you live in one you go from one place to another.
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That's right.
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So as you said, if you replace the noun country, you can say from town to town.
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You can even say from house to house.
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I went from house to house asking for money.
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That's right.
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So from hmm to hmm.
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Exactly.
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So from something to something.
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And for our final phrase, she was talking about how she's moved around so much that she's actually ready to settle down.
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Okay, to settle down.
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This is a really important phrase
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and I think it's something a lot of people do when they're maybe in their 30s or 40s.
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They don't want to move anymore.
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So to settle down means to stay in one place.
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Exactly.
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So you stay in one place and it can have a lot of different meanings as well.
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For example, to get married.
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Many people say that's settling down.
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It means you want to stay in one place and have a family.
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Or to buy a house because it means that you will live there for a long time.
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Exactly.
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So, to settle down.
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So, a lot of interesting phrases there, a lot of words, and this is, as we said, part two of our series.
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So, I think it would be worthy for us to listen to this dialogue one last time,
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and we'll be back to talk a little bit more.
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now this child's passed on your resume to me
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and i've had a chance to look it over i must say
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i'm quite impressed thank you very much i've tried to keep it short and clear
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if there are any questions please feel free to ask me well yes i do have a number of questions
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but perhaps first you could give me a brief overview
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i'd like to get a little bit of an idea of your background.
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Yes, of course.
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Well, as you can see from the resume, I'm 27 and grew up in Brooklyn,
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New York, although our family moved to London when I was quite young.
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At around 16.
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Ah, I see.
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So you were actually educated in Europe.
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Yes, precisely.
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Although I was born in the US, I would definitely call London home.
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But as you see, I've actually spent a lot of my life moving from country to country.
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My father was in the oil business before he retired, so we also spent a number of years in Saudi Arabia too.
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Very interesting.
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So it seems you had quite an adventurous childhood.
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Absolutely.
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We were never still for too long, but now I'm really looking to settle down.
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I see.
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Okay, well, let's move on to discuss your education, shall we?
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Sure.
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Alright, we're back.
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So, this is part two of a ten -part series of the interviews.
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Now, we just talked about the background.
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And I think there are different ways of talking about your background, right?
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This is maybe your personal background?
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That's right.
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So you can talk about your personal history, your personal background, where you were born, where you were educated, where you grew up.
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But a lot of times we also have to talk about other parts of our background, like our work background or,
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like next week, our educational background.
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That's right.
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So part three, we're going to take a look at your educational background.
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And it's going to be very important because I think in many interviews, people have a hard time describing what they studied
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or maybe describing exactly what they did during university or college or master's degree or something.
550
Exactly.
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And we're not talking about elementary school or high school.
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We're specifically talking about university background here.
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So like you're saying, Marco, what was your major?
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What was your minor?
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What was your area of study?
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These are great, great, great phrases that are very important for an interview.
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And so we hope that if you have any questions, you'll let us know.
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Our website is EnglishPod .com and stay tuned for next week's episode.
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That's right.
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Okay, so we'll see everyone on the website and until next time.
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Bye.
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Bye.
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The EnglishPod Audio Review Listen to the meaning, then say the vocabulary word.
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Feel relaxed.
565
Feel free.
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Let's try that faster.
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Hand in.
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Pass on.
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A general description.
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A brief overview.
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Feel relaxed.
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Feel free.
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To calm down.
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Settle down.
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Cause someone to feel admiration.
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Impress.
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Now say the word and hear it in a sentence.
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A brief overview.
579
George, would you give us a brief overview of what the marketing team has been working on this week?
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A brief overview.
581
This guidebook doesn't have a lot of detailed information about Paris.
582
It just provides a brief overview.
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A brief overview
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Before we talk about the specific job description, let me give you a brief overview of what we do here at ABC Corporation.
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Impress Impress Well Jeff, I'm really impressed with your photography skills.
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These pictures are beautiful.
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Impress On my first trip to Hong Kong,
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I was really impressed with the efficiency of the subway system.
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Impress Good job with that sales meeting, Ellen.
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I think the client was really impressed.
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Pass on We're all going to the Sichuan restaurant for lunch.
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Pass it on.
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We want to have a large group.
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Pass on.
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Linda, after you add the most recent QC figures to the report, please pass it on to Mr. Wang.
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Pass on.
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Thanks for your feedback.
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I'll pass your suggestions on to the design team.
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Feel free.
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Excuse me, may I use your bathroom?
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Oh, please feel free.
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Feel free.
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Welcome to our art gallery.
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Feel free to look around.
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Feel free.
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After listening to this EnglishPod lesson, please feel free to post your questions and comments on our website.
607
Settle down Children, children, settle down please.
608
It's time to begin class.
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Settle down He was something of a playboy in the past,
610
but now he's ready to get married and settle down.
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Settle down After living in the city so long,
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I'd really like to settle down in a small town.
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The EnglishPod audio review.
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Listen to the meaning, then say the vocabulary word.
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Cause someone to feel admiration.
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Impress.
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A general description.
618
A brief overview. To calm down.
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Settle down.
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Hand in.
621
Pass on Feel relaxed
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Feel free Let's try that faster
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Hand in Pass on A general description A brief overview
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Feel relaxed Feel free
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To calm down
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Settle down Cause someone to feel admiration.
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Impress.
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Now say the word and hear it in a sentence.
629
A brief overview.
630
George, would you give us a brief overview of what the marketing team has been working on this week?
631
A brief overview.
632
This guidebook doesn't have a lot of detailed information about Paris.
633
It just provides a brief overview.
634
A brief overview.
635
Before we talk about the specific job description, let me give you a brief overview of what we do here at ABC Corporation.
636
Impress.
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Well Jeff, I'm really impressed with your photography skills.
638
These pictures are beautiful.
639
Impress.
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On my first trip to Hong Kong, I was really impressed with the efficiency of the subway system.
641
Impress.
642
Good job with that sales meeting, Ellen.
643
I think the client was really impressed.
644
Pass on We're all going to the Sichuan restaurant for lunch.
645
Pass it on.
646
We want to have a large group.
647
Pass on Linda, after you add the most recent QC figures to the report,
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please pass it on to Mr. Wang.
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Pass on.
650
Thanks for your feedback.
651
I'll pass your suggestions on to the design team.
652
Feel free.
653
Excuse me, may I use your bathroom?
654
Oh please, feel free.
655
Feel free.
656
Welcome to our art gallery.
657
Feel free to look around.
658
Feel free.
659
After listening to this EnglishPod lesson, please feel free to post your questions and comments on our website.
660
Settle down.
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Chosen children, settle down please.
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It's time to begin class.
663
Settle down.
664
He was something of a playboy in the past, but now he's ready to get married and settle down.
665
Settle down.
666
After living in the city so long, I'd really like to settle down in a small town.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Interview Skills Part 2”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: overview, background, settle, brief, educated. This video has 666 sentences and 5673 words to shadow. The speech runs for 41:22. The speaker talks at a steady 137 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 86% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| impress verb | /ɪmˈpɹɛs/ | To affect (someone) strongly and often favourably. |
| overview noun | /ˈoʊ.vɚˌvjuː/ | A brief summary, as of a book or a presentation. |
| settle verb | /ˈsɛtəl/ | To determine (something which was exposed to doubt or question); to resolve conclusively; to set or fix (a time, an order of succession, etc). |
| educate verb | /ˈɛd͡ʒ.əˌkeɪt/ | To instruct or train. |
| resume verb | /ˈɹɛz.ə.meɪ/ | To start (something) again that has been stopped or paused from the point at which it was stopped or paused; continue, carry on. |
| phrase noun | /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/ | A short written or spoken expression. |
| precisely adverb | /pɹɪˈsaɪs.li/ | In a precise manner; exactly. |
| lesson noun | /ˈlɛs.ən/ | A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided. |
| relax verb | /ɹɪˈlæks/ | To make something loose. |
| retire verb | /ɹəˈtaɪɹ/ | To stop working on a permanent basis, usually because of old age or illness. |
| builder noun | /ˈbɪl.dəɹ/ | One who builds or constructs things. |
| verb noun | /vɝb/ | A word that indicates an action, event, or state of being. |
| dialogue noun | /ˈdaɪəˌlɑɡ/ | A conversation or other form of discourse between two or more individuals. |
| summary noun | /ˈsʌm.ə.ɹi/ | An abstract or a condensed presentation of the substance of a body of material. |
| examine verb | /ɪɡˈzæmɪn/ | To observe carefully or critically to learn about someone or something. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| settle down verb | To make or become quiet and calm after a period of disturbance or restlessness. |
| calm down verb | To become less excited, intense, or angry. |
| move around verb | To relocate to new homes repeatedly; to not live in any one place for long. |
| look around verb | To inspect a building or area. |
| go back verb | To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time. |
| grow up verb | To mature and become an adult. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- I must say, I'm quite impressed.
- It means, where are you from?
- What was your area of study?
- Excuse me, may I use your bathroom?
- This is maybe your personal background?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | have you been doing · has been working |
| Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result | if you have any questions, you'll let |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | you've heard · I've had · I've tried |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | was born · be impressed · will be impressed |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 115 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, I've, we're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: admiration /ˌæd.məˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, efficiency /ɪˈfɪʃ.ən.si/, suggestion /səˈd͡ʒɛst.ʃən/, emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, occasion /əˈkeɪ̯ʒən/
- Long words — get the stress right: admiration /ˌæd.məˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, photography /fəˈtɑ.ɡɹə.fi/, efficiency /ɪˈfɪʃ.ən.si/, elementary /ˌɛləˈmɛntəɹi/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like impress, overview, settle.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.