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ESL Podcast English Café 136
English as a Second Language Podcast
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ENGLISH CAFÉ – 136
TOPICS
The Betty Ford Center; poker; to be short on time versus time is running out, past
year versus last year, supervisor versus manager
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GLOSSARY
addiction – a deep need for something; a dependence on something
* No one knew that Dan had an addiction to gambling until he lost all of his
money and his house.
rehab – short for “rehabilitation”; getting treatment to slowly recover from an
illness for addiction; being treated so one can get back to one’s normal way of life
* After the football player hurt himself badly in a game, he had to undergo six
months of rehab for his knee before he could play again.
painkiller – a type of drug that helps relieve pain; a type of medication that helps
to stop the pain one feels in one’s body
* Cherise didn’t want to take any painkillers after her accident, even though she
was in a lot of pain.
intervention – action taken to improve a situation; coming between something to
change the events
* Without my bosses intervention, I think my supervisor would have fired me,
because he was jealous of my success.
residential – designed for people to live in; providing a place to live in addition to
other services
* The new private high school will have classrooms as well as several residential
buildings.
counselor – a person trained to give professional help and guidance; a person
who gives advice on a specific topic
* The students who didn’t know which career they wanted to pursue were
encouraged to make an appointment with their guidance counselor.
hand – the combination of cards a player is given in a game of cards; a set of
cards given to a player in a card game
* The player with the best hand isn’t always the winner. It’s a matter of how he or
she plays the game.
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tournament – a series of games where the winner of each game plays the
winners of the other games until there is just one player left who wins the big
prize
* Enid won the tennis tournament after defeating 12 other players.
champion – winner; the person who has defeated all of the other players
* The boxing champion was accused of using drugs to make him a better fighter.
endorsement – contract with companies to promote the company’s products;
money received from a company to tell others about a product
* The basketball player made more money from his endorsements of running
shoes than from playing professional basketball.
to show (one’s) hand – to reveal your secret plan, often when you’re not ready
to do so; to tell others of your intentions, after keeping it a secret
* We didn’t know what the company’s management planned to save money, but
it finally showed its hand when it began to fire employees.
poker face – an expression on one’s face that doesn’t show one’s emotions; an
expression on one’s face that hides one’s feelings
* We tried to put on our poker faces when Kim told us that she was going to quit
school to join the circus.
to raise the stakes – to put more at risk; to invest more into a plan or project,
with the hope of winning or getting something better in return
* Our boss raised the stakes when he told us that the best salesperson this
month would get a promotion.
to be short on time – to not have enough time to do something or to complete
something
* If you’re short on time, just finish drying my hair. You don’t need to style it.
time is running short – not having enough time remaining to complete a task;
having not enough time
* The doctors are working as quickly as they can, as time is running short to save
the dying woman.
past year – the 12 months before today; the one-year period that began one
year ago today
* In the past year, I’ve made just enough money each month to pay my rent and
living expenses.
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last year – January to December of the year before this one; the 12 months
between January and December that occurred most recently in the past
* The bonus we received from the company last year was 10% more than our
bonus this year.
supervisor – a person who watches over the work of employees to ensure
quality and good use of time
* At the sandwich shop, our supervisor watches us carefully as we make each
sandwich.
manager – a person who has control or direction of an institution, business, or
other group; one who has control of a part or phase of a project
* Our store manager has to check over the finances each month to make sure we
are making enough money to pay the store’s employees.
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WHAT INSIDERS KNOW
The Song “Rehab” by Amy Winehouse
Amy Winehouse is a talented and popular British singer and songwriter. In 2008,
she won three “prestigious” (highly respected) Grammy Awards – the top U.S.
awards for music – for a song called "Rehab."
The lyrics or words in the song are “autobiographical,” which means they are
about Amy herself. The song is about her “refusal” (saying no) to go to rehab,
even though she has had a very public problem with drugs and alcohol.
This is the “chorus,” or the part of the song that is repeated:
They tried to make me go to rehab but I said 'no, no, no'
Yes, I've been black but when I come back, you'll know know know
I ain't got the time and if my daddy thinks I'm fine
He's tried to make me go to rehab but I won't go go go
After Amy Winehouse won a total of five Grammy Awards in 2008, some singers
and musicians criticized the organization that gave out the awards for rewarding
her for her continued problem with drugs and alcohol. Giving her the awards,
some said, “set a bad example” or gave young people the wrong idea that being
a drug and alcohol addict is a way to succeed in the music business. Other
people “defended” (spoke in favor of) Amy Winehouse by saying that her music
and her lifestyle should be judged separately, and that there was a long history of
singers and artists who had drug and alcohol problems.
Everyone agreed, though, that she needs “to get her life together,” doing what is
best for her so that her life is better and she is happier. No one wants to see her
“overdose” (take too much of a drug) as many artists have done, and people
want her to continue making good music.
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COMPLETE TRANSCRIPT
You’re listening to ESL Podcast’s English Café number 136.
This is English as a Second Language Podcast episode 136. I’m your host, Dr.
Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development in
the beautiful City of Los Angeles, California.
Visit our website at eslpod.com. Download our 8 to 10 page Learning Guide for
each current episode that will give you some additional help in improving your
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English, as well as our ESL Podcast Blog, where several times a week we
provide even more help in helping you increase your language proficiency.
On this Café, we’re going to focus on the Betty Ford Center. We’ll talk about
where and what that is in the United States. We’re also going to talk about a
popular card game, poker. And as always, we’ll answer a few of your questions.
Let’s get started.
Our first topic is the Betty Ford Center. The Betty Ford Center is a treatment or
rehabilitation center for people who have drug or alcohol addictions. “To treat”
something is to try to make it better, perhaps to cure it. “To rehabilitate” means
to take someone who has some problem and make them well again – make them
normal again. So, treatment or rehabilitation center is a place for people to go
and become better, in this case, to “recover,” or to get better from their addiction.
An “addiction” is when you have a deep need for something, we would say a
“dependence” on something. An “addict” is the person who has an addiction.
Addicts often have a hard time trying to stop taking a drug or stop drinking
alcohol; they sometimes need help to end this addiction. That’s why they may go
to a drug or alcohol rehab center, like the Betty Ford Center. “Rehab” is short for
rehabilitation.
The Betty Ford Center was founded, or started, by the wife of former President
Gerald Ford; her name was Betty Ford. She was the wife of the President of the
United States in the mid-1970s. The Betty Ford Center was founded with the
help of her friend Leonard Firestone, an ambassador, or representative, for the
United States. Gerald Ford was president from 1974 to 1977. The Betty Ford
Clinic was founded in 1982.
Betty Ford decided to build this center because she had been addicted to alcohol
and painkillers herself. A “painkiller” (one word) is a type of drug that helps
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