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Learn English Conversations: Cancelling Appointments | Beginners Podcast Episode 26 - Season 2
Tune in to Episode 26 of the English Learning Podcast for beginners in Season 2 as we delve into the essential language skills required for cancelling appointments. Join Marco and Erika as they guide you through a dialogue between Samantha and Angela, providing valuable vocabulary insights.
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Hello, English learners. Welcome back to EnglishPod. My name is Marco.
And I'm Erika.
And today we're bringing you another great lesson about appointments.
That's right. We've got an elementary lesson about cancelling an appointment.
It's a really common situation sometimes. You have an appointment at the doctor's or
something.
Or at work.
And you have to cancel it.
Yes. So we're going to learn some great language to help you cancel appointments today. Let's
Let's go straight to the dialogue then.
We're going to be listening as Samantha and Angela have a phone conversation and Angela
is trying to cancel an appointment.
And it's going to be a little bit fast in the beginning, but when we come back, we will
explain all the great vocabulary.
Hello, Samantha speaking.
Hi, Samantha.
This is Angela calling.
Oh, hi, Angela.
What's up?
I'm just calling to say that I'm going to be late for the interview.
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.
Let me see. It shouldn't be too much of a problem.
I'm really sorry. I hope it doesn't inconvenience you too much. It's just this thing came up and...
Angela, you know what? I can't make it to our meeting either.
Why don't we postpone it to tomorrow afternoon at the same time?
Sounds great. See you tomorrow.
Okay, we have some really interesting words that you probably listened to in this dialogue,
so let's start with language takeaway.
Language takeaway.
Today on Language Takeaway, we're bringing you three words.
Erica, what's the first one?
The first word is reschedule.
Reschedule.
Reschedule.
Reschedule.
When you reschedule an appointment, you...
Change it for another day or time.
Exactly.
Great.
The second word that we have is inconvenience.
Inconvenience.
Inconvenience.
Inconvenience.
So, to inconvenience someone is to...
To make things not convenient for that person.
Right.
So, to make things a little bit difficult...
or to make things a little bit uncomfortable.
Uncomfortable.