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Welcome to English as a Second Language Podcast number 405: Buying Computer Accessories.

This is English as a Second Language Podcast episode 405. I’m your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development in beautiful Los Angeles, California.

If you go to our website at eslpod.com you can download a Learning Guide for this episode that contains all of the vocabulary, definitions, sample sentences using the vocabulary, additional definitions not discussed on the episode, cultural notes, comprehension questions, and, if that weren’t enough, a complete transcript of this episode.

This episode is called “Buying Computer Accessories.” An “accessory” is something you buy that works with something else; it’s something that helps you or improves on another product. This is going to be a dialogue between Kevin and Ginger about buying things for your computer, so we’ll have lots of vocabulary related to the computer. Let’s get started.

Ginger: It’s really nice of you to come with me to buy my computer. This is the desktop I’m thinking about.

Kevin: This is okay, but if I were you, I’d buy a laptop. It’s more