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Welcome to English as a Second Language Podcast number 1,064 – Spotting Trends.

This is English as a Second Language Podcast episode 1,064. I’m your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development in beautiful Los Angeles, California. Visit our website at ESLPod.com.

Become a member of ESL Podcast and download the Learning Guide for this episode. This episode is a dialogue between Heidi and Tim about understanding the way things are changing in the world by spotting trends. Let’s get started.

Heidi: You look very relaxed reading magazines in the middle of the workday.

Tim: It’s my job. I’m tasked with spotting new trends.

Heidi: And you do that by reading magazines with your feet up?

Tim: Why not? I also frequent places where hipsters hang out, listening to their conversations and observing what they’re wearing, eating, drinking, and doing.

Heidi: That doesn’t sound too onerous.

Tim: It’s all about finding the trendsetters, the people who are beta