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ENGLISH CAFÉ – 95
TOPICS
Ask an American: Getting into an MBA program
to spell out something, about to break, breakdown, conscience versus conscious
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GLOSSARY
any number of (something) – many; a lot of; a large number of
* The financial advisor told us that there are any number of reasons to begin
saving money while you are young.
marketing – the work of advertising, promoting, and selling products to
customers
* Good marketing requires knowing why your customers are interested in the
products.
accounting – the work of tracking financial transactions; the process of
recording the money that a business receives and spends
* If you like numbers and finance, you might enjoy a career in accounting.
undergrad/undergraduate – a student who is studying at a university to earn a
Bachelor’s degree; a student in the first four or five years of study at a university
* The undergraduate students like to study on this floor of the library.
to be admitted – to have one’s application be accepted so that one is invited to
study at a university or college; to be successful in becoming a member of an
organization
* I was admitted to Yale University, but I didn’t have enough money to study
there.
GMAT – Graduate Management Admission Test; an exam that most people must
take to apply for an Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) degree
* The GMAT tests your verbal, math, and writing skills.
TOEFL – Test of English as a Foreign Language; an exam that non-native
speakers of English take to show American universities and colleges how well
they know English
* What score did you get on your TOEFL?
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to be right out of (high school/college) – to have graduated recently; to have
finished high school or college a short time ago
* Keisha got an impressive job as a finance director right out of college!
to set (oneself) apart from (someone) – to show that one is better than another
person in some way; to do something that makes one appear to be better at
something than another person is
* Larry’s good grades set him apart from the rest of the applicants for the
scholarship.
deadline – the date when something is due; the date when something has to be
finished and given to another person
* The deadline for applying to Nebraska University is March 31.
to spell (something) out – to say each letter in a word, so that people know how
it should be written
* - Can you please spell out your last name?
- Sure. It’s U-R-Q-U-I-Z-O.
to be about to break – to have an emotional or mental collapse; to lose
emotional or mental control; to almost be broken, but still work; to be near the
end of something’s useful life
* After losing his job, Wallace felt that he was about to break and decided to ask
his family for help.
breakdown – sudden emotional or mental collapse; the moment when
something completely stops working
* Xavier’s car had a breakdown in the middle of the desert, so he had to wait a
long time for someone to come and help him.
conscience – the feeling that what one is doing is right or wrong; an internal
guide that helps one decide what one should or shouldn’t do
* Ruby lied to her mom, even though she knew her conscience would bother her
about it.
conscious – awake and aware of what is happening around oneself
* After the accident, Dana was conscious, but she couldn’t move her body or talk.
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WHAT INSIDERS KNOW
Dilbert
Dilbert is a very popular “comic strip” (drawings in a row of boxes that are printed
in the newspaper every day). The artist, Scott Adams, uses “office satire,”
meaning that he uses humor to “criticize” (say negative things about) what
happens in offices.
The main “character” (drawn person in the comic strip) is Dilbert, who is an
engineer at a technology office. His boss is known simply as “Pointy-Haired
Boss,” because his hair stands up in two large points, and he is a very bad
manager. When the other characters are “mismanaged” (managed poorly) by
the boss, they often make funny, ridiculous decisions in their jobs.
Many of the words and phrases in Dilbert have become part of American popular
culture. For example, the comic strip uses the word “induhvidual" instead of
“individual.” The word “duh!” is used informally to mean that something another
person said or did is very obvious or stupid. So an “induhvidual” is a person who
doesn’t know what’s going on.
Dilbert also makes a lot of “references to” (mentions of) “cubeland,” which is the
area in a large office building that has many “cubicles.” A “cubicle” is a small
area with four short walls where a person works when he or she doesn’t have an
office. Many people complain about working in “cubeland” because it is
impersonal, noisy, and “crowded” (without very much space).
Finally, Dilbert “coined” (created or made) the word “frooglepoopillion” to mean a
very, very large number. In the comic strip, one day the company realized that it
owed more money than could be counted, so it decided to say that it owed a
frooglepoopillion dollars.
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COMPLETE TRANSCRIPT
You're listening to ESL Podcast's English Café number 95.
This is English Café episode 95. I'm your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming to you
from the Center for Educational Development in beautiful Los Angeles,
California.
On this Café, were going to have another one of our “Ask an American”
interviews. Today we will be interviewing Kevin about his Masters in Business
Administration program – his study of business at a graduate level in the United
States. We're going to find out what he had to do to get into, or be admitted to,
the program. And as always, we'll answer a few of your questions. Let's get
started!
A reminder, as always, that you can get the complete transcript for this episode
by downloading the Learning Guide from our website at eslpod.com. It might be
especially useful for this kind of episode, when we have someone speaking at a
little faster speed.
We interviewed Kevin about his experience in getting an MBA. He's going to
begin by telling us what an MBA is – give us a definition. Kevin will be speaking
at a normal speed, so he'll be speaking a little fast. But don't worry, we're going
to go back and talk about what he said and give you another chance to listen to
it.
Here's Kevin telling us what an MBA is:
[recording]
An MBA program is a Masters in Business Administration. It's obviously a little
higher-level courses than your undergraduate courses, and you can study any
number of topics in the business school – marketing, accounting, finance.
[recording stops]
Kevin tells us that an MBA is a Masters in Business Administration. This is a
graduate degree, meaning you have to have a Bachelor's degree first. We call
the Bachelor's degree the undergraduate program. Kevin says the MBA is
“obviously a little higher-level than your undergraduate courses,” meaning they're
more difficult at the graduate level.
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He also says that “you can study any number of topics in the business school.”
The expression “any number of” here just means a lot or many; it's just another
way of saying many. “I have any number of places I could go on vacation” – I
have many “options,” many possibilities.
He lists three of those possibilities: marketing, accounting, and finance.
“Marketing” has to do with letting other people know about a company – your
company. “Accounting” and “finance” are related to the money: how much
money comes in, making sure that you are keeping good records, and so forth.
Let's listen again to this definition:
[recording]
An MBA program is a Masters in Business Administration. It's obviously a little
higher-level courses than your undergraduate courses, and you can study any
number of topics in the business school – marketing, accounting, finance.
[recording stops]
Kevin now describes to us how you are admitted to an MBA program. “To be
admitted” means to be accepted, when they say, “Yes, you can come to our
school.” He's going to describe what you need to get into an MBA program in
most universities in the United States. He'll tell us the tests that you have to take,
how his admissions – his application – was a little different than some other
students. He'll talk a little bit about the application, whether you have to do an
essay. He'll also mention something about an interview that he did, and why he
did it.
This is a little longer section. Let's listen, and then we'll come back and explain
it:
[recording]
Well, the first thing you have to do, of course, is to graduate from undergraduate
– an undergraduate program. Then, you also have to take the GMAT for U.S.
students, and the TOEFL for international students. GMAT is an assessment
test, much like the SAT is. It just gives you a score and rating on how well you
might do in a Master's program.
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