to fall behind

Welcome to English as a Second Language Podcast number 340: Office Competition.

This is English as a Second Language Podcast episode 340. I’m your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development in beautiful Los Angeles, California.

Our website is eslpod.com. If you go there, you can download an 8 to 10 page Learning Guide that contains all of the vocabulary, sample sentences, additional definitions that we don’t discuss on the podcast, cultural notes, comprehension questions, and a complete transcript of everything we say on this episode.

This episode is called “Office Competition.” We’re going to listen to a story that uses a lot of vocabulary you might find in discussing a competition, or a contest, or when one person tries to do better than someone else. Let’s get started.

Okay, everybody. Listen up. We’re approaching the end of the month. Unless you’re new here, you know that we are in competition with our rival, the East Coast office, to have the most sales this period.

At the beginning of the month, we pulled ahead