{"id":1756,"date":"2025-04-16T09:58:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T01:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rainyjames.com\/?p=1756"},"modified":"2025-04-16T10:07:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T02:07:35","slug":"english-pod-27-asking-for-time-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rainyjames.com\/?p=1756","title":{"rendered":"English Pod 27 &#8211; Asking for Time Off"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Dialogue<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/api.frdic.com\/api\/v3\/media\/mp3\/f314d031-36a9-11e6-bd07-000c29ffef9b?type=mp3&amp;cdn=auto\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A: Mr. McKenna, do you <strong>have a second<\/strong>? I need to talk to you about something.<br>B: Sure, Liv, what can I do for you?<br><br>A: Well, I was just wondering. . . you see, I know I\u2019ve<strong> used up<\/strong> all my vacation days this year, but my sister is getting married, and the wedding is <strong>overseas<\/strong>, and, well. . .<br><br>B: You wanna <strong>take some time off<\/strong>, is that right?<br><br>A: Well, sir, I was just hoping that I might be able to take some <strong>unpaid leave<\/strong> this year.<br>B: What dates are you planning on taking off? I\u2019ll need at least two months notice, so that I can plan for your absence.<br><br>A: I was thinking of taking off from September first until the thirtieth . Would you <strong>be okay with that?<\/strong><br>B: Well, I guess so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Explain<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/api.frdic.com\/api\/v3\/media\/mp3\/54c1bbd3-1e6f-11e7-be40-000c29ffef9b?type=mp3&amp;cdn=auto\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Vocabulary<\/strong><br><br><strong>have a second<\/strong> \u2014 Phrase have some time, not busy<br><strong>use up <\/strong>\u2014 Verb take all of something<br><strong>overseas<\/strong> \u2014 Adjective in an other country, across the ocean<br><strong>take some time off<\/strong> \u2014Phrase stop working for a short time<br><strong>notice<\/strong> \u2014Noun (noncount) information that tells you about something or warns about something<br><strong>be okay with that <\/strong>\u2014 Phrase agree<br><strong>unpaid leave<\/strong> \u2014 Phrase time away from work that is not paid<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Example<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Notice<br>Voice: Example one.<br>A: If you want to quit your job, make sure you give enough notice; you\u2018ll need to tell us<br>four weeks in advance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Voice: Example two.<br>B: You didn\u2019t give me enough notice about this project, I didn\u2019t have enough time to finish it<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>be okay with that<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Voice: Example one.<br>A: Are you alright with that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Voice: Example two.<br>B: Will you be okay with this?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Voice: Example three.<br>C: I\u2019m fine with that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dialogue A: Mr. McKenna, do you have a second? I need to talk to you about something.B: Sure, Liv, what can I do for you? A: Well, I was just wondering. . . you see, I know I\u2019ve used up all my vacation days this year, but my sister is getting married, and the wedding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31,33,29],"class_list":["post-1756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-english","tag-english-pod","tag-29"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rainyjames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rainyjames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rainyjames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rainyjames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rainyjames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1756"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.rainyjames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1766,"href":"https:\/\/www.rainyjames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions\/1766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rainyjames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rainyjames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rainyjames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}