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Welcome to English as a Second Language Podcast number 262: Missing the Tour Group Bus.

This is English as a Second Language Podcast episode 262. 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 “Missing the Tour Group Bus.” It's going to be a conversation between a woman who is looking for her group that she is on a tour with - visiting; vacationing - and a man standing on the street. Let's get started.

Kelly: Where is everybody?

Man: Excuse me? Were you talking to me?

Kelly: Oh, no. I was just talking to myself. Our tour group was supposed to rendezvous here at five o’clock for our return trip to the hotel. But there’s no trace of the bus and I don’t see any other people from my group anywhere.

Man: You know, it’s 5:10. Maybe the bus took off already.

Kelly: That can’t be! Our tour guide said that we would meet back here at five- ish.