{"id":220,"date":"2025-02-23T13:10:55","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T13:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rainyjames.com\/?p=220"},"modified":"2025-08-07T14:52:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T06:52:31","slug":"1-diffificult-customer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rainyjames.com\/?p=220","title":{"rendered":"English Pod 1-Diffificult Customer\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dialogue<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/static.eudic.net\/MediaPool\/56287de9-6d2d-47a8-896a-5a3e829c9990\/data\/a67e45f5-111e-44a6-8576-353dba0411db.m4a?stamp=1718621533477\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Elementary &#8211; Difficult Customer <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>A: Good evening. My name is Fabio, I\u2019ll be your waiter for tonight. May I take your order?<br>B: No, I\u2019m <strong>still working on <\/strong>it. This menu is not even in English. What\u2019s good here?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>A: For you sir, I <strong>would recommend<\/strong> spaghetti and meatballs.<br>B: Does it come with coke and fries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>A: It <strong>comes with<\/strong> either soup or salad and a <strong>complimentary <\/strong>glass of wine, Sir.<br>B: I\u2019ll <strong>go with<\/strong> the spaghetti and meatballs, salad, and the wine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>A: Excellent choice, your order will be ready soon.<br>B: How soon is soon?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>A: Twenty minutes?<br>B: You know what? I\u2019ll just go grab a burger across the street<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Explain<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/static.eudic.net\/MediaPool\/54c1bb9f-1e6f-11e7-be40-000c29ffef9b\/data\/30bd99fb-e321-4283-88f2-d118a0f4ab6b.m4a?stamp=1726860539614\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Vocabulary:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>still working on \u2014- Phrase not yet completed, need more time<br>would recommend \u2014 Verb suggest<br>complimentary \u2014 Adjective free<br>go with \u2014 Phrase to choose, pick<br>grab Verb get quickly<br>come with \u2014 to be connected someone or something<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Example\uff1a<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>still working on<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Example one.<br>A: Did you finish reading the magazine?<br>B: I\u2019m still working on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Example two.<br>C: Did you fix my car?<br>D: I\u2019m still working on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<br>grab<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Example one.<br>A: On your way home can you grab some milk?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Example two.<br>B: Wait for me please, I need to grab my coat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Example three.<br>C: Let\u2019s grab a cup of coffee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dialogue Elementary &#8211; Difficult Customer A: Good evening. My name is Fabio, I\u2019ll be your waiter for tonight. May I take your order?B: No, I\u2019m still working on it. This menu is not even in English. What\u2019s good here? A: For you sir, I would recommend spaghetti and meatballs.B: Does it come with coke and [&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-220","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\/220","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=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.rainyjames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2819,"href":"https:\/\/www.rainyjames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/2819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rainyjames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rainyjames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rainyjames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}