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Welcome to English as a second language podcast number 177 a wild driver. This is English as a second language podcast episode 177.

I’m your host Dr. Jeff McQuillan coming to you from the center for educational development in beautiful Los Angeles, California. Remember to visit our website@eslpod.com to get the learning guide for this podcast, which includes the entire transcript additional activities comprehension questions culture notes and much more. Today’s podcast is called a wild driver.

Let’s go over Yasmine and I were going to a show at the Staples Center and Yasmine was driving my friends warned me about her driving. But they didn’t prepare me for this ride, whoa, slow down. You almost rear-ended that SUV. Now I didn’t get easy. I have everything under control. I’m not even speeding that much. You are the one who doesn’t want to be late show yeah but I want to get there in one piece. Hey, what are you doing you’re not going to make an illegal U-turn across four lanes of traffic are you I have to why I was going the wrong way on a one-way street road.

Geez, I think you just took 10 years off my life. Don’t be such a wise a lot and enjoy the ride. We are just getting started. Today’s podcast is called a wild driver. A driver is the person who is driving a car or a truck and if they are wild, WI, LD means that they are driving very dangerously. There are little crazy there doing things with the car that they should not be doing that’s a wild driver in the story Yasmine and I are going to a show at the Staples Center, a show SHO W mean some type of entertainment. It could be a concert. It could be usually a concert, but it did and it can also be you can talk about a show as a movie. I’m going to see the show tonight.

It could be a play. It could be a musical lots of different things could be called a show will in this case, the show is is a concert at the Staples Center in the Staples Center is the large, the name of the large auditorium the large center here in Los Angeles and downtown Los Angeles where they have big rock concert so it’s a big stadium and they play basketball games in there and they have big conventions in the Staples Center so it’s a big stadium.

It’s a big auditorium. It it it has a roof over it. However, so you can do things their any kind of weather. Will the Staples Center is where Yasmine and I are going. Yasmine is driving the car and my friends warned me about her driving to warn W ARN someone means to tell them about something that is possibly dangerous or something negative. I’m going to warn you about walking at night by yourself in Los Angeles. I’m telling you that that could be dangerous so that is to warn someone to give them information about something that could be dangerous.

Well even though my friends warned me they didn’t prepare me for this ride ride our IDE means, in this case. This trip going from one place to another in a car you can say I’m going to take a ride. I’m going to get in my car and drive somewhere a ride then means a trip. Well, the dialogue begins by Pedro saying whoa, slow down. That expression, whoa WHO a is one that we use in a couple of different ways you can say whoa to someone when you think they are moving too fast.

The running too fast or maybe they’re even talking too fast. It would only be something you would say to someone who is a friend. It’s an informal expression, you wouldn’t say that to your boss say whoa now you wouldn’t do that. The expression is in part from from a horse when you’re not riding a horse and you want the horse to stop her to slow down you.

You often hear people say whoa so wall means to slow down. Sometimes it can just be an expression of surprise or of shock. I went outside and will it was raining. I wasn’t expecting it. It was very surprising to me. So wall can be slow down or I can just be an expression of surprise will hear it definitely means slow down, don’t drive so fast, I say to you does mean that you almost rear-ended that SUV to rear end REAR-END is a verb which means to hit your car on the back hit the back of another car with your car to hit the back of another car with your car. The front of your car hits the back of their car.

That is to rear end someone rear Re: AR you probably know, means the back of something the back of a car could also mean the same as informally it could mean the same as what you sit on your your but BU TT is also called can be called your rear or your rear end but it here as a verb, it means for a car to hit another car now.

The car that she almost rear-ended was an SUV SUV stands for sports utility vehicle and the vehicle is just as any name for a car or truck, a sports utility vehicle is a car big car that you could use to drive places where there aren’t roads where there aren’t any good roads. For example, if you were going hunting or camping or you wanted to walk in the mountains but there weren’t any roads while a sports utility vehicle is supposed to be a big car that helps you drive in places where they don’t have very good roads now sport-utility Vic vehicles are our big cars and they become very popular in the last five years or so here in the United States. Most people do not use them however to go to a place where there aren’t any roads.

They just use them as their regular car there big, they cause a lot of problems for some drivers because they’re more difficult to control and they use a lot of gasoline so they’re not very good for the environment but there still very popular. Just not with me. Yasmine says that she didn’t almost rear and she says no I didn’t take it easy the expression.

Take it easy. EAS why means to relax. It’s an expression that you would only say to a friend of yours because when you say take it easy. You’re saying the other person is either excited or angry or getting too upset about something you would not want to say to your boss. Take it easy. So take it easy means to relax, to calm down but sometimes it can also mean to slow down if someone is driving very fast you. You may say take it easy don’t don’t go so fast. So, to relax, to calm down. Those are all meanings of to take it easy. Yasmine says I have everything under control.

To have something under control means that you have taken care of everything that you know what you are doing and that you are not being unsafe. You’re not being dangerous. I have everything under control. You can also use that expression when you are planning a big event a party and you say I have everything under control means I have all of the little details all the little parts of the plan. I’ve taking care of them. I I know what I’m doing.

Yasmine says I’m not even speeding that much to speed as a verb SPE D means to go very fast in your car to go faster than what you can legally go United States. The speed limit. The fast as you can go in your car on a highway or freeway is usually 65 miles an hour in some states, it’s different every state has its own rules about how fast you can drive in the United States. There isn’t one national speed limit and to speed means to go faster than what you can legally do. Of course, in the city on regular streets. The speed limit is much lower.

Usually, 30, 35 mph so Yasmine says she wasn’t even speeding that much that expression that much means not very much. And of course that means that she was speeding a little bit she was going a little too fast. Yasmine then says you’re the one who doesn’t want to be late for the show. You’re the one who that expression is used when you are having an argument. A discussion with someone and you say something to them that you think they are responsible for the problem and they say back to you. They respond to you that you are the one who is the problem. You’re the one who wants to do something, let me see if I can give you an example of that.

You say to your friend that you want to see the baseball game tonight. The Los Angeles Dodgers are playing baseball and you want to go to the game and your friend says okay well let me call my friend and see if he can get me some tickets to the game and you say no, no, no, don’t. Don’t call your friend. I don’t want you to do that and your friend would say well you’re the one who wants to go to the baseball game, meaning it was your idea.

You’re the one who wanted to do it so that is the expression that Yasmine is using here. You’re the one who doesn’t want to be late for the show and that’s why she’s driving so fast so that they’re not late for the show and you said Pedro that you didn’t want to be late for the show so that is what Yasmine is arguing with Pedro here. Pedro replies he responds by saying yeah but I want to get there in one piece in one piece PIE CE peace in one piece means that you don’t want to get in an accident you don’t want to get injured. It’s an expression we use when someone is being unsafe someone is doing something dangerous, especially driving too fast you say I want to get there in one piece means I don’t want my body to be in several different pieces.

A piece is a part of something so in one piece would be you want your whole body to be there. You don’t want to get into an accident. Pedro then says hey what are you doing you’re not going to make an illegal U-turn across four lanes of traffic are you a U-turn, which is spelled with the U-TURN is when you turn your car in the opposite direction. So if you’re going north and now you want to go south you can make a U-turn and of course it looks like the letter you when you turn your car around and that’s why it’s called a U-turn, Elaine LA and E of traffic is on a road, especially on a freeway you have different places for cars to drive.

Usually you have four lanes or three lanes so that you have cars driving right next to each other going in the same direction so that is what’s called a lane of traffic or a lane on the freeway. Freeways usually have here in California, three, four, sometimes six or seven liens on the streets on this in the city. Most streets have just two lanes, one going in each direction so Pedro is asking Yasmine if she’s going to make a U-turn across four lanes of traffic means that she is in the far right lane and she is going to make a U-turn cutting across these four different lanes.

What Yasmine says I have to make a U-turn and Pedro asked why and she says well I was going the wrong way on a 1 Way St. a one way O and E-W a Y Street is a street where the cars can only go in one direction and to go the wrong way on a one-way street means that everyone else is going north and you are going south or everyone is going east and you try to go West will, of course, you will cause an accident.

That way, because all the cars are going against you, so that would be a going the wrong way on a one-way street. Pedro then says oh geez oh geez geez GE EZ is an expression of could be expression of surprise, usually an expression of disappointment when you’re upset with something Pedro says oh geez, I think you just took 10 years off my life to take time off someone’s life is a kind of a joking expression. It means you scared me. You scared me a lot.

You scared me so much that I feel that my life is now shorter so to take years off your life is when you are are very afraid something happens that makes you very scared. Yasmine says back to Pedro, don’t be such a worse, a worse W US S is definitely an informal expression that you would only want to use with a good friend of yours…

Somebody who is weak someone who is perhaps even a coward, a coward, CO W ARD someone who doesn’t have any courage is a coward. So Willis is a coward… Someone who is weak. It’s really an insulting term, especially one that you would say to a man, but here, of course, they’re good friends so she’s kind of joking with him. Don’t be such a worse. She says buckle up and enjoy the ride to buckle BU CK LE up means to put on your seatbelt in your car at a buckle.

You may know is what you use to keep your belt around your pants on in the front you have a buckle that connects the two parts of the belt together so it makes a circle well to buckle up means to take the seatbelt and put it into what we would call the buckle, and that keeps the seatbelt on your body so that it can protect you now is listen to the dialogue, this time at a native rate of speech. Yasmine and I were going to a show at the Staples Center and Yasmine was driving my friends warned me about her driving. But they didn’t prepare me for this ride will go slow down and was rear-ended that SUV. I didn’t take it easy everything under control and speaking that much. You’re the one who doesn’t want to be late for the show.

Yeah but I want to get there in one piece. Hey, what are you doing going to make an illegal U-turn across four lanes of traffic are you I have to why I was going the wrong way on a one-way street. Oh geez, I think you just took 10 years off my life. Don’t be such a wise and enjoy the ride with just getting started.

The script for today’s podcast was written by our very own Dr. Lucy say thank you, Lucy. If you have a question or a suggestion for ESL podcast. You can email us our email address is ESL POD at ESL POD.com from Los Angeles California. I’m Jeff McQuillan. Thanks for listening. Will see you next time on ESL podcast English as a second language podcast is written and produced by Dr. Lucy say posted by Dr. Jeff Quinlan podcast is copyright 2006