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TOPICS

Ask an American: Business travel in the U.S.; bang for your buck, original versus

initial, the longest word in English

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GLOSSARY

remote – distant; far away; not near; not close

* He works in a remote part of the state that is an eight-hour drive from the

nearest city.

awesome – great; wonderful; cool; impressive

* You can enjoy an awesome view of Mt. Jefferson from Jeff Park.

to work out of (somewhere) – to work from a particular location; to be based in

a certain city or place

* Peter works out of Minneapolis, but he often travels to Houston for business

meetings.

cool – awesome; great; wonderful; impressive

* Wouldn’t it be cool to be able to travel to Mars?

a major pain – something that is very unpleasant and/or difficult to do

* Paying taxes is a major pain, but we all have to do it.

slippers – soft, big, warm, comfortable shoes that are worn inside the house

* As soon as she comes home from work, she takes off her high-heeled shoes

and puts on her comfortable pink slippers.

to tuck/untuck – to put the edges of a piece of fabric or paper inside/outside

something else so that they look ordered/disordered

* Your shirt is untucked in the back. Please tuck it into your pants.

to beep – to make an electronic, high-pitched sound for a short period of time

* Do you set your alarm clock to beep in the morning, or to play the radio?

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trial – a difficult experience; a difficult situation that tests one’s patience and

abilities

* Their first year of marriage was a trial and they fought all the time, but they

have worked out their differences and now they have been married for almost 15

years.

to keep (something) to a minimum – to maintain something at a low level; to

not let something grow and become bigger

* Could you please keep the noise to a minimum? I’m trying to sleep.

bang for (one’s) buck – the value that one receives for the money, time, or

effort that one has spent on something; the results after one has spent money,

time, or effort on something

* You’ll get more bang for your buck if you buy a new computer when the store is

having a good sale.

original – existing at the beginning of a process or time period

* This is the original wallpaper that was put on the walls when the house was

built in 1847.

initial – first; at the beginning

* Our initial cost estimate for fixing the car was $2,000, but now we know that it’s

going to be even more expensive.

antidisestablishmentarianism – a political position where one doesn’t want the

government to stop recognizing a church

* People who believed in antidisestablishmentarianism wanted the Church of

England to continue to be England’s official state church.

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis – the longest word in

English, meaning a lung disease that people get when they breathe a certain

type of dust from volcanoes

* The volcano explorer got pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis and

almost died.

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WHAT INSIDERS KNOW

Airport Codes

A “code” is a system of words, letters, numbers, and symbols that are used to

represent other words and ideas, often to send secret messages. An “airport

code” is a short code that is used to identify airports.

There are two international systems of airport codes. One system is “known as”

(called) the “IATA airport code,” where “IATA” is an “acronym” (a word where

each letter is the first letter of another word) for the International Air Transport

Association. Each IATA airport code has three letters and these codes are

“familiar” (recognizable and understandable) to “the public” (normal people who

aren’t part of a specific industry or organization). The other system is known as

the “ICAO airport code,” where ICAO is an acronym for the International Civil

Aviation Organization. Each ICAO code has four letters, and although these

codes aren’t very familiar to the public, they are used more commonly

internationally.

People need to enter IATA codes when they make “reservations” (arrangements

to use a service at a specific time in the future) or buy airline tickets online. They

have to enter the three-“digit” (number or letter) codes for the airports that they

wish to fly from and to. IATA airport codes are also printed on “baggage tags”

(the stickers that are placed on airline passengers’ luggage so that workers know

which plane the suitcases need to be put on, and when).

The ICAO codes, which are less familiar to the public, are used for more

technical purposes. For example, “air traffic controllers” (people who give

instructions about how and where planes should move in the sky) and airline

“flight planners” (people who decide when and how often planes should fly on

certain routes) use the four-digit ICAO airport codes.

Here are a few IATA airport codes for popular U.S. airports. Some major cities

have more than one airport, but we’ve just included one as an example:

City

Airport Code

Los Angeles

LAX (Los Angeles International Airport

New York

JFK (John F. Kennedy Airport)

Chicago

ORD (O’Hare Airport)

Philadelphia

PHL

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Atlanta

ATL

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COMPLETE TRANSCRIPT

You’re listening to ESL Podcast’s English Café number 117.

This is the English Café episode 117. I’m your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming

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

California.

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episode. You can also take a look at our ESL Podcast Blog and our ESL

Podcast Store, which has some additional specialized courses in daily and

Business English.

On this Café, we’re going to talk about traveling in the United States for business.

We’re going to interview someone who used to travel a lot for his work; we’ll talk

about some of his experiences doing that. That’s part of our Ask an American

series that we do every month or so. We’ll also, of course, answer some of your

questions. Let’s get started.

On this episode, we have another Ask an American segment, where we talk to a

native speaker who speaks at a normal speed, and we listen to them, go back

and explain what they said, and listen to them again. The topic for today’s Ask

an American is traveling in the United States, especially business travel. We’re

going to interview Kevin, who travels – or used to travel a lot for his job. You

may remember Kevin from English Café number 95, were he talked about how

he got his “Master’s in Business Administration,” or M.B.A.

In this episode, he’s going to talk about his experiences traveling. He’s going to

start by talking about his travel schedule, how long he would have to go on a trip,

where he went, and what he did there. Let’s listen

[recording]

I used to travel from Sunday to Friday; leave Sunday morning, come back Friday

evening. Um, just work all day where ever the location was that I was working at.

Um, typically back then it was, ah, our data centers, so I would travel to these

remote places when they have our data centers, um, and work out of those

offices.

[end of recording]

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Kevin speaks quickly, but let’s go back and listen again to what he said. He said,

“I used to travel (meaning in the past I frequently traveled) from Sunday to

Friday,” leaving “Sunday morning, come back Friday evening.” Now, of course,

when we speak in normal conversation, we don’t always have what we would call

“complete sentences”; it’s very common. You will also notice that there are a lot

of what we call “filler words” in normal conversation. A “filler (filler) word” is a

word we use when we are thinking about what we are going to say. Kevin uses

“um” and “ah,” those sounds when he’s thinking about what to say next.

So, he says he “used to travel from Sunday to Friday; leave Sunday morning,”

and “come back” (return to his house) on Friday evening. “Just work all day,” he

said, “where ever the location was that I was working at,” meaning he would work

the entire day at the place where he was sent to work. “Typically,” he says,

meaning usually, “back then (back at the time when I used to travel) it was our

data centers.” A “data center” is where computer companies have their

computers that have important information on them. Kevin would travel to these

data centers; he would have to “travel to these remote places.” Somewhere that

is “remote” (remote) means not close to anything else – not close to a big city, for

example.

Well, Kevin would travel to these remote places where they had their data

centers, “and work out of those offices.” “To work out of a place” is a phrasal

verb, which means to work in a certain location. Some people say, “I work out of

my home,” meaning they work in their home, that’s the place they work.

Someone else may say, “I work out of the office in San Francisco” – that’s the

place where I work, in San Francisco. Let’s listen to Kevin again.

[recording]

I used to travel from Sunday to Friday; leave Sunday morning, come back Friday

evening. Um, just work all day where ever the location was that I was working at.

Um, typically back then it was, ah, our data centers, so I would travel to these

remote places when they have our data centers, um, and work out of those

offices.

[end of recording]

Next Kevin is going to talk about the differences in traveling before 9/11 – before

September 11, 2001, when the World Trade Center in New York, among other

places, was attacked, and what happened after September 11, 2001 – the

change in flying in the United States. Let’s take a listen.

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