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TOPICS

Popular words in the U.S. media, People Magazine's “Sexiest Man Alive,” to

make a spectacle of yourself, to go berserk, basically, I'm whooped, doozy, fault

vs. defect vs. error, David versus Goliath.

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GLOSSARY

global warming – an increase in the Earth’s temperature caused by changes in

the atmosphere

* The report said that having so many cars on the road is part of the reason for

global warming.

avian flu – a deadly sickness that you can get from contact with certain birds;

also called “bird flu”

* Avian flu is spreading to countries on every continent.

aight – alright; not great, but not bad, either (slang)

* When I asked him how school was today, he said “aight.”

mad – very; a lot of (slang)

* She has mad money.

brill! – brilliant!; excellent, very good, great (slang; British English)

* Did you see that game? It was brill!

‘s’up – what’s up? what is new with you? (slang)

* ‘S’up? Are we going to the club tonight or what?

VoIP – Voice over Internet Protocol (Internet telephone)

* Since I got VoIP, I pay a lot less for long distance.

emoticon – an icon on email or a website that has a face, such as a smiley face

 or a sad face =(

* I hate it when I get an email with 50 emoticons in it!

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to make a spectacle of yourself – to embarrass yourself in public; to do

something that will make people laugh at you or consider you strange

* Stop making a spectacle of yourself or I’m telling everybody that I don’t know

you.

to go berserk – to go wild, to lose control

* When I told him that we had lost all of our money, he went berserk.

basically – used to give a summary of an idea or to express your idea in a

simple and direct way

* I basically go to the same place for a vacation every year.

to be whooped – to be defeated very badly by someone else in a game or

contest

* We were whooped by their team for the third year in a row.

doozy – an adjective used to describe something that is very surprising, strange,

or bizarre

* They told me a doozy of a story about how they spent their summer vacation.

fault – mistake or error; can also mean blame

* There is a fault in his argument.

defect – when there is a flaw in something, usually something physical

* I didn’t notice the defect in the machine until I got it back to the factory.

error – mistake or fault

* The government office made an error on my new passport.

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ENGLISH LEARNING TIPS

How many times should you listen to a podcast or other audio recording? Is

once enough? Twice? Three times?

Listening to the same recording more than once can be helpful if there are things

in the recording that you don’t understand. After listening one time, you get a

general idea of what is happening. This helps you understand even more the

second time you listen. A third listening may help you if there are still several

things you don’t understand.

There is no rule about how many times you should listen to the same recording.

The aim is to understand what is being said. You should stop listening if you are

bored or understand everything you want to understand. Most people find that if

the recording is difficult, it can help to listen at least two or three times (some will

listen even more). But you should do what you find comfortable and useful. You

may, for example, want to listen without the transcript the first time, then with the

transcript the second time, reading along to see what you missed.

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COMPLETE TRANSCRIPT

Welcome to English as a Second Language Podcast’s English Café Number 36.

This is the English Café Episode 36. I'm your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming to

you from the Center for Educational Development in beautiful Los Angeles,

California.

On today's cafe, we're going to talk about some popular buzz words in English. A

“buzz word” is a popular word, a word that many people are using. We're also

going to talk about People Magazine, a famous magazine here in the United

States and a list of the most sexy man and woman alive. Sounds interesting. And

as always, we'll answer a few questions. Let's get started.

I was surfing the Internet yesterday. And, of course, “to surf the Internet” means

to be looking at different websites. And, I found a website that had popular

words that are being used in the United States in 2005 and 2006, words that are

used on the television, or in movies, or in the newspaper. And, it had a list of

these different words, different kinds of words. I thought it would be fun to talk

about some of these popular terms, popular expressions that are in the news and

in…on the television. They had a couple of different lists. One of them was for

political words or political terms. And some of the words that they had, or the

terms they had, were: "climate change," "climate change.” The climate, of

course, is the weather. And there's been a lot of talk about something called

“global warming” - global comes from the word “globe” which means the whole

earth, the earth; and “warming,” of course, is when the temperature goes up.

And there are many scientists who are worried that we have a problem with

global warming, that the temperature on the earth is going up. So, “climate

change” and “global warming” are two words that you see a lot in the news here

in the United States.

Another one, of course, is “avian flu” or “bird flu.” “Bird” and “avian” are, are the

same. Avian flu is, of course, the disease that, unfortunately, has killed some

people in different countries that is…comes from, we believe it comes from

different types of birds. And, of course, that is a potential problem that people

are worried about. Another word, political word, that you see a lot in the news is

“insurgency.” "Insurgency" is I-N-S-U-R-G-E-N-C-E - and this describes

essentially people in a country who are trying to overthrow or take over the

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government by violent means, by using violence. And of course, the situation in

Iraq right now has led to many different groups of insurgents. An “insurgent”

would be the person; an “insurgency” is the movement or the, the cause of these

people who are trying to change the way the government is working or not

working.

So, those are some of the political words. They also had an interesting list on this

website of slang words that are being used by high school students and college

students. These are words, of course, that change every year. And they change,

sometimes, very quickly. With the Internet, of course, it's very easy for these

words to spread. And when we say “to spread,” we mean to become popular in

different places. Different people hear about them. And there are Internet

websites that make these words more known to other people, or better known to

other people. Some of the words they had on their list…One of them is “aight,”

"aight" which is short for “alright.” Someone says, “Eh, he was aight, he was

aight.” It means he was alright, he was pretty good. It's, it's again a slang

expression. Another slang word being used now, according to this website, is

“mad” M-A-D - to mean “a lot.” “She has mad money,” means she has a lot of

money. Again, I would never say that, but that's something that some high

school and college students are saying. Another one from England, from the

United Kingdom, is “brill,” "brill" which is short for “brilliant.” And in England, they,

they use the word “brilliant” to mean great or excellent. We don't use that in that

way here in the United States, but it is very popular in Great Britain, and the short

form of that would be “brill.”

Finally, they, they have one that is also very popular here in the United States

and that is, “s'up.” "S'up." Well, “s'up” is a short form of “what's up,” meaning

what's going on, what's happening. But, instead of saying, “what's up,” we just

say, or younger speakers just say, “s'up.” "S'up?" “Hey, Bob, s'up?” means,

what's up, what's going on? Again, these are very popular among younger

speakers, high school and college-age speakers.

Finally, they had a list of technology words that are popular now. One of those is

“VOIP” - Voice Over Internet Protocol. And that just means the ability to be able

to talk on the Internet, like talking on the phone to someone. Most people I know

pronounce this by saying, V-O-I-P. They don't normally say “VOIP,” even though

you could pronounce it that way. It's mostly, I think, pronounced “V-O-I-P.”

Another popular technology word is “emoticon.” This is an Internet term and an

emoticon is when you put a little, for example, smiley face in your e-mail or on a

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