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Welcome to English as a Second Language Podcast number 653: Reading Product Reviews.

This is English as a Second Language Podcast episode 653. I’m your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development here in Los Angeles – beautiful Los Angeles, California.

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Our dialogue today is between Dominic and Andrea. It’s going to be about when you are looking to buy something and you decide to see what other people think of that product, what we would call a “product review.” Let’s get started.

Dominic: Do you want some help with that box?

Andrea: Sure, thanks.

Dominic: What is it?

Andrea: It’s a new TV. My old one has been on the fritz for a week and I needed a new one.

Dominic: Is this a highly-rated model?

Andrea: Highly-rated? I just went to the electronics store and bought it. It was on sale.

Dominic: You mean you didn’t read up on it before you bought it? You didn’t look at the reviews?

Andrea: No,