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Welcome to English as a Second Language Podcast number 310: Shopping for Furniture.

This is English as a Second Language Podcast episode 310. I’m your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development in beautiful, warm Los Angeles, California.

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This episode is called “Shopping for Furniture.” It’s a dialogue between two people who just got married, or are going to get married, and are looking for things for their new house or apartment. Let’s get started.

Tobias: I really don’t understand why we need new furniture. After we’re married, we’ll just take the things from each of our two apartments and that should do the trick.

Renee: We each have some things we can keep and use, but it would be nice to have pieces that match. Right now, we have six dining chairs, each in a different style, and none of them are in the same style as the dining table your uncle