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Welcome to English as a Second Language Podcast number 193, “Placing a Business Order.”

This is English as a Second Language Podcast number 193. I'm your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development in beautiful Los Angeles, California. Visit our website at eslpod.com to get the Learning Guide for this podcast. That's an eight to ten page guide that includes the vocabulary, additional explanations, cultural notes and the complete transcript of this podcast.

Today's podcast is about a person from a company trying to buy something from another company. Let's get started.

Jessie: Good morning. This is Jessie Lipman calling from Wexman. I wanted to place an order.

Rudy: Certainly. Are you ordering from our catalog?

Jessie: Yes, I have the item numbers. But, before I place the new order, I wanted to check on some items we have on backorder.

Rudy: Sure, let me pull up your account. It looks like you have two items that are still outstanding, but we should have that to you by the end of the week.

Jessie: Can you give me a delivery date?

Rudy: It should arrive no later than the 19th.

Jessie: Okay. Let me give you the new order. The first item is 2456. We’d like 52 boxes. Last time, we were able to buy in bulk