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Welcome to English as a Second Language Podcast number 524: Talking About Failure.

This is English as a Second Language Podcast episode 524. 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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This episode is called “Talking About Failure.” It’s a dialogue between Akiko and Gerry using vocabulary that we would employ – that we would use when talking about things that go wrong – things that fail. Let’s get started.

Akiko: How did your presentation go over this morning at the meeting?

Gerry: It was a complete flop!

Akiko: I don’t believe it. You spent weeks working on that presentation.

Gerry: It wasn’t the presentation that bombed. It was my big idea. Leona called it a retread of what I presented last year, and she was not in the least impressed.

Akiko: Ouch, that’s pretty harsh. What did the