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Gengo English S1 #6 Welcome To New York! Avoid Instant Immersion Shock With This Lesson!
Gengo English S1 #6 Welcome To New York! Avoid Instant Immersion Shock With This Lesson!
LESSON TRANSCRIPT
Gengo English S1 #6 Welcome
to New York! Avoid Instant
Immersion Shock with this
Lesson!
CONTENTS
2 INTRODUCTION
2 DIALOGUE
3 POST CONVERSATION BANTER
5 VOCAB LIST
8 VOCAB AND PHRASE USAGE
11 LESSON FOCUS
15 OUTRO
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MAULA NIKMA
INTRODUCTION
Keith: Hey and I’m Keith. Welcome to Gengo English Lesson number 5 - “Welcome to New York!
Avoid Instant Immersion Shock with this Lesson!”
Narator: You also learned how to ask, "What do you do?" Keith: And
how to talk about jobs. In this lesson you’ll learn.. Narator: talking
DIALOGUE
Narator: [laughs]
Keith: [laughs] You’re not going to sing for us, are you? Narator:
Keith: [laughs] Not yet. Need a couple of drinks, huh? Well, he’s definitely a lucky guy. This is a
beautiful city, isn’t it?
Narator: Yeah, yeah. I’d say so. And not only has he finally arrived in New York, he's made a lot of
progress with getting to know his new friend, Michelle.
Keith: Yeah, he definitely has! And his English is really coming in handy! Narator: Ah,
Keith: That’s actually a very handy phrase. [laughs] It means to be useful. Narator:
Keith: It means to stay around but for this, for Gengo English, it would mean to keep listening.
Narator: So we’ll have to keep listening to find out if Zo and Michelle become better fr
VOCAB LIST
Keith: Let's take a look at the vocabulary for this lesson. The first word we shall see is: Narator: good
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Keith: the middle part of the day; after 12:00 PM and before 5:00 PM
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Keith: Alright, well let’s have a closer look at the usage for some of the words and phrases from this
lesson.
"good afternoon." The plane has landed in New York and the time is 3 o’clock in the afternoon.
Keith: The afternoon is the middle part of the day; the part of the day after morning and before the
evening, which starts around 5 pm. The evening. So it’s probably around 12 to 5 o’clock.
12 pm. Hence, the name "afternoon." The next phrase is ,"This is ...................." The pilot says,
"This is the pilot." He's announcing himself-- he's letting people know that he is the one speaking.
Keith: "This is the pilot" is short for, "This is the pilot speaking."
Narator: Exactly. You may also hear this phrase at the start of a phone conversation-- if you call me,
for example, I pick up the phone and say, "Who’s this?"
Keith: You don’t have to say the “speaking” part. You can just say, “This is Keith.” Narator: Exactly.
Keith: Ah, of course. The pilot welcomes the passengers to New York, where they have just
landed.
Narator: “Welcome” is a greeting used to say hello to a guest or to a newcomer. It can be heard
in many instances; you may hear "Welcome!" when visiting someone's home, a shop, or even
an entire city or county-- just like in the dialogue.
Keith: Here in New York there’s a lot of people that are visiting from all over the place, and if I meet
someone new, “Hey, you’re from New Zealand,” “Hey, you’re from Afghanistan. Welcome.
Welcome to New York.” Also the pilot then announces the time.
evening.
common in
Keith: I think it’s.. Yeah, I think it’s just the United States that uses Fahrenheit. Narator: OK.
Narator: Then it would make sense that the pilot announces the temperature in Fahrenheit and he
also announces it in Celsius, which is used everywhere else in the world.
Keith: That’s right, Celsius. Buy why does he do that? Why does he give the temperature?
Narator: He gives the temperatures so that all of the passengers who are coming from all different
places, many different climates, so they have an understanding of the
Keith: And last but not least, we’re going to look at the word, "Wow!" Narator:
expression of surprise.
LESSON FOCUS
Narator: The focus of this lesson is talking about the time, date and temperature.
Keith: Let’s address talking about the time first. It’s easy to talk about the time. In the dialogue, the
pilot says, "The time now is 3 pm.”
Keith: So, PM is used for the afternoon. 3 pm means, "3 in the afternoon." And 5 pm means, "5 in
the evening."
Narator: If you remember, morning is before 12 noon, and afternoon is, well, AFTER NOON. The
evening starts at around 5 pm-- or, 5 in the evening.
Narator: For the morning? We use AM. So how would you say 2 in the morning? Keith:
Narator: Now, to ASK about the time say, "What time is it?"
Keith: And another way of asking about the time is, “Do you have the time?”
Keith: And as we just discussed, to ANSWER "What time it is, you can say, "It's 6 pm." Or, "it's 6 in
the evening" and so on and so forth.
Keith: Sure. Talking about the date is also pretty simple. In the dialogue, the pilot simply says
that the date is “Thursday, April 30th.”
Narator: So he gives the day of the week, Thursday, and the calendar date, April 30th.
Keith: I think most of our listeners will probably know the months of the year, but how about a
quick review?
Next is April.
Keith: And the sixth month is, remember this one because it’s my birthday in there, is June.
Keith: I’ll remember that. After September we have where Halloween is, October. Narator:
Keith: That’s where Thanksgiving is, one of my favorites. And after November, the last
Narator: December. And why don’t we review the days of the week as well? We’ll start with Sunday.
Keith: Friday.
Keith: Actually, one day in there I wanted to mention is Wednesday because you don’t say it
the way you spell it.
Keith: Whenever I write Wednesday, I have to remind myself it’s not “wensday” It’s “wed-nes-
day.”
Keith: n-e-s-d-a-y.
Keith: I think I like Thanksgiving the most. And actually a good note is, Thanksgiving is mostly an
American holiday, I think.
Sandia: Yeah.
Sandia: Right. It’s always... Is it the last Thursday of the month? Keith:
Narator: That’s a good question. I don’t really know if I have a favorite holiday. I kind of like the
entire month of December because there’re all these different holidays and everyone’s having a
party and it’s just kind of a month-long celebration.
Keith: There’s a lot of holidays in December, so actually in America, a lot of companies take off
maybe, the last two weeks?
Narator: Mm-hm.
Narator: [laughs] Alright, now that we’ve got dates out of the way, let's talk about the temperature.
But of course, they're all on a plane with passengers coming from different
is reported in Fahrenheit.
Keith: And actually that’s in Fahrenheit. What would it be in Celsius? Narator: I don’t
Keith: [laughs]
Keith: I’m not a hundred percent sure. Well, I think 50 degrees Fahrenheit is about 17 degrees
Celsius, and 75 degrees Fahrenheit is about 25, 26 degrees Celsius?
OUTRO
Keith: Somebody who’s good at math, help us out. [laughs] Well, how about you, our listeners?
Why don’t you tell us what the weather is like where you’re from? Alright, well that’s going to do it
for this lesson. Thanks for listening.