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Welcome to English as a Second Language Podcast number 511: Getting Plastic Surgery.

This is English as a Second Language Podcast episode 511. I’m your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development in beautiful Los Angeles, California.

If you go to our website, eslpod.com, you can download a Learning Guide for this episode, an to 8- to 10-page guide that contains our vocabulary, definitions, sample sentences, additional definitions, cultural notes, comprehension questions, and, most importantly, a complete transcript of everything we say on this episode.

This episode is a dialogue between George and Joan about “plastic surgery,” when people have medical procedures (surgeries) on their body to change the way it looks. Let’s get started.

George: What are you doing?

Joan: I’m looking through these magazines to try and decide which plastic surgery procedures I should have next year.

George: You’re not thinking of going under the knife.

Joan: Yes, I am. I’ve always wanted to improve on the way I look, and I’m tired of these wrinkles and sagging skin. I want to look 25 again!

George: That’s