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Welcome to English as a Second Language Podcast number 370: Describing a Bad Experience.

This is English as a Second Language Podcast episode 370. 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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This episode is called “Describing a Bad Experience.” It’s a dialogue between Caterina and Oliver about, well, something that was not very fun. Let’s get started.

Caterina: I can’t believe I let you rope me into seeing this performance. It was so lame!

Oliver: Okay, you’re right, it was the pits. I had no idea it was going to be amateur hour. When I saw the ad in the paper describing this as an experimental play, I thought it might be interesting. Was I wrong!

Caterina: I didn’t understand that play at all. The music, if you can call it that,