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Welcome to english as a second
language podcast number 14.
Welcome to english as a second
language podcast number 14. My name is doctor Jeff Macquillion coming to you
from Los Angeles California at the center of the educational development. if
this is your first time listening to our
podcast please go to our website at www.eslpod.com. that is www.eslpod.com to
find out more information about this podcast today's podcast is the first of a
two part podcast talking about going to concert and music vocabulary but also
some general vocabulary that we use in informal settings tomorrow will be part
2 of the podcast let's get started we are going to be listening to Lucy
describing her experiences at a concert.
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I heard on the radio this morning
that my favorite band was going to be in
concert here next month. I was so excited. The first thing I did was to
call my friend Ben who is also a big fan of the band. Not only was the band
playing in town, they were going to play at a bar called the Whiskey. The
Whiskey is known as a small, intimate venue
so we would be able to get close to the band. It's not a big amphitheater where you can't even see
the band from the nose-bleed
section. This would be the ultimate concert experience if only we can get
tickets.
I was sure that the tickets would
sell out fast when they went on sale on Saturday morning. So,
Ben and I decided to camp out in
front of the box office on Friday
night. That way, when the box office opened on Saturday morning, we would
definitely get tickets. We grabbed a
bite to eat on Friday night, then we got dressed in our warmest clothes and
took our sleeping bags to the ticket office. This was around 8 pm. When we got
there, I couldn't believe it! There were already about 15 people in line! And,
I was sure we would be the first ones. Oh well.
Ben and I got into the back of
the line and we barely got any sleep all night. We talked to the other people
there and we just hung out all
night. Nothing got out of hand,
though, so we didn't get hassled by
the cops. By morning, there were
more than 50 die-hard fans in line.
Well, it paid off. When the box office opened at 9 am, we filed up to the
window one by one and got our tickets. It was all worth it. I heard afterwards
that the concert sold out in less than a half hour! I'm so glad we braved the elements and camped out. I
really can't wait until next month!
Script by Dr. Lucy Tse
Explanation part:
In today's podcast Lucy described
how she and her friend Ben waited in line to get tickets for concert. there were several
vocabulary terms she used that we often here in talking about concerts and
music some and an more general sense. let's start off with the expression to be
in concert when we say that a musical group a band is going to be coming to
your town we say that they are going to be in concert here so for example few
years ago the rolling stones came to Los Angeles they were in concert. we can
often also say they are in concert at and then give the name of the place so
they are in concert at dodger stadium, dodger baseball stadium. another word
for the place where you hear the music is vanue,
Lucy mentioned how she was going to a bar that was a small intimate vanue here intimate just means you are all very
close to each other in the place. vanues can be bars a music vanue could be a
concert hall music vanue could be anywhere where you play music and listen to a
concert. Lucy mentioned that it was not in a big amphitheater. amphitheater is a huge or very large
theater for listening to music. it is traditionally associated with amphiteater
ancient Greece that were built up on the side of the hill where the greek
tragedies and comedies where seen. we use the term now however to me any huge
auditorium large place for listening to music lucy mentioned that she was
hoping that ticket is not in the nose
bleed section this is a informal expression which means a place so far up
so far away from the stage that you would get nose bleed from it nose bleed is
of course a blood comes out of your nose if you go up to very high place you
sometimes can get a nose bleed. so nose bleed section is way far away from the
stage high up in the vanue. lucy mentioned that they needed to buy tickets in wait in line before they would sell out to
sell out means that you sell all the
tickets that are available. so we often say that band is very popular, their
concert is sure to sell out meaning all of the tickets will sell very quickly.
when the tickets do sell we sell the tickets will sold quickly when the tickets
do sell we say the concert is sold out the expression to sell out usually
refers to a tickets however sometimes we use the expression to sell out to mean
to compromise your principles to do something that is against your own beliefs
for money or for some reward but here it is just refers to tickets. tickets
when they are ready to be sold go on sell. the expression to go on sell applies not just to tickets
but to anything that a store or place is selling. it actually means two things
to go on sell means they start or begin selling particular ticket or particular
thing to go on sell can also mean that it is been sold at discount so for example the department store
has put their pants on sale they went on sale yesterday to put on sale is a
another expression that means the same thing. Where a store put something on
sale meaning they discount price two meaning the term on sale. here it just
means they begins to sell the tickets lucy and ben described how they camped
out in front of the box office. to camp out means literally to go on stay and
sleep overnight outside outdoors sometimes in a very popular concerts they will
be people who are camped out for whole night sometimes couple of days in order
that they will be the first people in line when tickets go on sell. the box
office is a term that means where tickets are sold it could be movie tickets it
could be music tickets it could be theater tickets all of those vanues all of
those places use the same term box office. it is where we buy our tickets. Lucy
mentioned that she and ben grabbed a bite to eat that expression to grab a bite to eat that a means to
get something to eat it is informal colloquial expression meaning getting
something to eat usually not a big meal usually small meal well small for Americans.
lucy mentioned that they didn't sleep much that night so they just hang out to hang out means to talk to be with
other people in a very relaxed informal setting. we were hanging out at the
cafe yesterday meaning we were sort of wasting our time talking not in a big
hurry very relaxed they mentioned Lucy mentioned rather that nothing go out of
hand this expression to get out of hand means to get unroughly
to get rowdy to get violent to get noisy not to let something get out of hand
means not to let get something go such a extent that you can no longer control
it. it literally mean something falling out of your hand but here means that
nothing got violent or nothing was out of control. She mentioned that they did
not get hestiled by the cops these are the two informal expressions to hestile someone means to bother
someone so you may say your friend don't
hostel me about going to the gym i know i have to go meaning don't bother me
about that the cops is an informal
slang expression referring to police officers
it is a slightly negative expression but many people use it to refer to
police officers. die hard fans
is another term that lucy mentioned she said many die hard fans well die hard
like famous popular movie few years ago die hard means someone who is very
committed someone who is very serious about something when it is used together
with a word fan it means someone who is a fanatical who loves this particular
group or thing so you can say i am a die
hard fan of football i am die hard fan of youtube all of this means the same
someone who is very much interested that thing or person. a couple of more
expressions lucy said that all paid off another words to pay off means to be
successful i hope that work put into this project pays off means i hope it is
successful finally Lucy mentioned how lucy and ben braved the elements to breve the elements means to go out
side where the weather is not good it may be raining it may be cold it may be
snowing to brave the elements then means to go out into bad weather.
Well that is going to conclude
our eslpodcast number 14. Our podcast get little bit longer every day sometimes
they will be 5 to 7 minutes sometimes they will be 10 to 15 minutes once again if
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