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Welcome to English as a Second Language Podcast number 490: Eating Spoiled Food.

This is English as a Second Language Podcast episode 490. 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. Go there to download a Learning Guide for this episode that contains all of our vocabulary, definitions, sample sentences, additional definitions, comprehension questions, cultural notes…what else? Oh, and a complete transcript of this episode.

This episode is called “Eating Spoiled Food.” “Spoiled food” is food that is no longer good to eat. We’ll listen to a dialogue between Ryan and Corrie using a lot of vocabulary that you might see or hear describing spoiled food. Let’s get started.

Ryan: It’s really nice of you to make dinner for me. It’s been a long time since I’ve had a home-cooked meal.

Corrie: I’m happy to do it. First, though, let’s see what you have in your fridge.

Ryan: I have tons of food in there.

Corrie: What is that? It looks moldy.

Ryan: Oh, that’s cheese. I’m sure it’s still good, if we just cut off the moldy parts.