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0C051 - The Weekend - What a Bargain!
M: Hello English learners! Welcome back to EnglishPod! My name is Marco.
E: And I'm Erica.
M: And today we're bringing you another great lesson and this time we're gonna be shopping.
E: That's right. Actually a lot of our users, um, asked for some… some lessons about shopping, right?
M: Exactly and I think one of the most important things when you go shopping is to get a good price.
E: That's right.
M: So, we're gonna be teaching you how to bargain.
E: So, Marco, you just mentioned a really great word, um, let's look at it in "vocabulary preview".
M: Alright, so, we're gonna preview the word bargain today.
E: Bargain.
M: Bargain.
E: Bargain.
M: Now, this is an interesting word because it's a verb and a noun.
E: That's right, um, so, a bargain is a good price, right?
M: Okay, so, a bargain is a good price.
E: Yep, this t-shirt was a bargain, um, I only paid a dollar for it.
M: Okay, so that is a bargain.
E: Yes.
M: But to bargain as a verb…
E: Um, to try and get a good price.
M: So, it's very similar to negotiate.
E: Yeah, so, I would say "uh, it costs a hundred dollars".
M: And then I would say maybe "ah, I'll give you fifty".
E: "Ah, seventy five".
M: Um, and I say"sixty".
E: Etcetera, etcetera [NOTE:Etcetera = etc. = and so on, and so forth]
M: Hehe. And that's to bargain,right?
E: Yep.
M: Okay, so we're gonna be bargaining, uh, let's listen to the dialogue for the first time as we have a woman bargaining in a store, right?
E: That's right.
- 01:27 DIALOGUE,FIRST TIME
M: Alright, that was some good bargaining skills right there.
E: Yeah, and, you know what, she used a lot of good language to get, ah, a cheaper price, didn't she?
M: Yeah, yeah, that was good. So, let's take a look at this language in "language takeaway".
M: Okay, the first word we have in language takeaway today - price range.
E: Price range.
M: Price range.
E: Price range.
M: Price range. What does it mean exactly?
E: So, price range is, uh, the minimum and the maximum that you're willing to spent for a thing that you wanna bye.
M: Exactly, so, in the dialogue we heard it's out of my price range.
E: It's more than I can spend.
M: More than I could spend.
E: Yeah.
- 03:07 Shop around
M: Okay. Okay, let's look at our next word - shop around.
E: Shop around.
M: Shop around.
E: Shop around.
M: So, she said "I'll think… I think I'll shop around".
E: Right, um, so she wants to check in a few other stores to see if there's a better price.
M: If I shop around I'm going and trying to compare prices maybe.
E: Exactly, this is a really good, um, shopping technique.
M: Yeah, it is.
E: Yeah.
- 03:29 Pricy
M: Okay, and let‘s look at ourlast word - pricy.
E: Pricy.
M: Pricy.
E: Pricy.
M: So, something that's pricy is…
E: Expensive.
M: Expensive.
E: Yep, this is, uh… a more sort of informal way of saying expensive.
M: Exactly, so instead of saying "Wow! That car is really expensive!"
E: It's really pricy.
M: It's really pricy.
E: Yeah.
M: Okay, let's listen to our dialogue for the second time and it's gonna be slowed down a bit.
E: So you'll understand some of these great words a little bit better.
03:58 DIALOGUE, SECOND TIME(slow)
