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763 - Dealing with an Apartment Super
Posted: February 10th, 2012, 9:00am EST by Center for Educational Development
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pRenting an apartment can be so much fun when something stops working! Learn how to talk about getting things fixed in this episode./p pSlow dialogue: 1:14 br /Explanations: 3:12 br /Fast dialogue: 15:17/p pGeorge: Did you call the super about fixing the leaky faucet?/p pLouise: I called him on Monday, but I haven’t heard back yet. /p pGeorge: Well, call him again. This window is stuck and it won’t close./p pLouise: I’ll call him, but I think he’s avoiding our calls./p pGeorge: He’s the worst super we’ve ever had. He’s in charge of the maintenance around this place, but instead, he hides out in his apartment. Whenever there’s a problem, he tells us he’s too busy to get to it right away. Too busy doing what, I’d like to know./p pLouise: Maybe he is overworked. There are 25 units in this building, so it’s conceivable that he’s busy making repairs – somewhere./p pGeorge: That’s what he’s counting on, people like you who give him the benefit of the doubt. All the while he’s drinking coffee and reading the newspaper somewhere. Mark my words./p pLouise: I’ll call him again. Maybe we’ll catch him in his apartment./p pGeorge: Save your energies. /p pLouise: Where are you going and what are you doing with that baseball bat?/p pGeorge: I’m going to track down that super and bring him back here. Come hell or high water, he’s making those repairs – today! /p pScript by Dr. Lucy Tse/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EnglishAsASecondLanguagePodcast/~4/1mwst7ZInjU" height="1" width="1"/
