{"id":1886,"date":"2025-05-05T15:52:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T07:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rainyjames.com\/?p=1886"},"modified":"2025-05-05T16:13:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T08:13:44","slug":"english-pod-31-canceling-an-appointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rainyjames.com\/?p=1886","title":{"rendered":"English Pod 31 &#8211; Canceling an Appointment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Dialogue<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/api.frdic.com\/api\/v3\/media\/mp3\/c77f957c-4e4c-4b52-b79e-cffb0a1dc0d1?type=mp3&amp;cdn=auto\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A: Hello, Samantha speaking. <br>B: Hi Samantha. This is Angela calling. <br><br>A: Oh, hi Angela, <strong>what\u2019s up<\/strong>? <br>B: I\u2019m just calling about our meeting today. I wonder, is it possible to <strong>reschedule <\/strong>our appointment in the afternoon? I have a bit of an emergency that I need to take care of. <br><br>A: Let me see, it shouldn\u2019t be too much of a problem\u2026<br>B: I\u2019m really sorry, I hope it doesn\u2019t <strong>inconvenience <\/strong>you too much, it\u2019s just this thing <strong>came up<\/strong>, and \u2026 <br><br>A: Angela, you know what, I can\u2019t <strong>make it <\/strong>to our meeting, either. Why don\u2019t we <strong>postpone <\/strong>it to tomorrow afternoon at the same time? <br>B: Sounds great. See you tomorrow. <br>C: Angela..Angela, look up! See that lady over there who is trying on a red leather jacket? Isn\u2019t that Samantha? <br><br>B: What? <strong>No wonder<\/strong> she told me she couldn\u2019t make it to the meeting, oh, no, I think she saw me\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Explain<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/api.frdic.com\/api\/v3\/media\/mp3\/5af4bce2-1e6f-11e7-be40-000c29ffef9b?type=mp3&amp;cdn=auto\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Key Vocabulary<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>what\u2019s up <\/strong>\u2014 Phrase what is the matter<br><strong>reschedule<\/strong> \u2014 Verb schedule something for a different time<br><strong>inconvenience<\/strong> \u2014 \/\u02cc\u026ank\u0259n\u02c8vi\u02d0ni\u0259ns\/ Verb cause problem or trouble<br><strong>come up<\/strong> \u2014 Verb occur in an unexpected way<br><strong>make it<\/strong> \u2014 Verb come<br><strong>postpone <\/strong>\u2014 Verb decide to do something at a later time<br><strong>no wonder<\/strong> \u2014 Phrase not surprisingly<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Example<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Postpone = to delay<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Voice: Example one.<br>A: Since Robert is late again, we have to postpone the meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Voice: Example two.<br>B: I\u2019m sorry Simon, but your vacation has been postponed until next month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Voice: Example three.<br>C: Unfortunately, the flight will be postponed<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">this thing came up<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Voice: Example one.<br>A: I\u2019m sorry that I\u2018m late, this thing came up at work and I had to stay to take care of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Voice: Example two.<br>B: I can\u2019t talk right now, something came up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Voice: Example three.<br>C: Sorry I missed the meeting, something came up<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dialogue A: Hello, Samantha speaking. B: Hi Samantha. This is Angela calling. A: Oh, hi Angela, what\u2019s up? B: I\u2019m just calling about our meeting today. I wonder, is it possible to reschedule our appointment in the afternoon? I have a bit of an emergency that I need to take care of. A: Let me [&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-1886","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\/1886","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=1886"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.rainyjames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1897,"href":"https:\/\/www.rainyjames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions\/1897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rainyjames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rainyjames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rainyjames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}