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Welcome to English as a Second Language Podcast number 334: Hiding from the Police.

This is English as a Second Language Podcast episode 334. 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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Our episode is called “Hiding from the Police.” To hide from the police is, of course, something you would do if you, perhaps, have done something wrong. The vocabulary we’re going to talk about is the sort of vocabulary you might read in the newspaper about some crime that has happened. Let’s get started.

I read an article in the newspaper this morning about a man who had been on the lam for 12 years. He was wanted by the police because they believed he had committed